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A45536 Prossō kai opissō a sermon eqvally pointing forvvard & backward, as it was deliver'd in the Vniversity Church of Saint Maries in Cambridge / by P.H., B. of Divinity, and sometime fellow of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge, in his forenoone course before that universitie, upon the 22 day of November, in the yeare 1640, being the beginning of this present parliament. P. H.; Hardres, Peter.; Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662. 1647 (1647) Wing H702; ESTC R38787 23,179 42

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