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A77221 Comfort from the cradle, as well as from the crosse of Christ. Being meditations upon Isaiah 9.6. / The substance whereof was delivered in two sermons. Preacht at VVinchester upon the feast of the Nativitie last past. By Tho. Bradley Dr in Divinitie, lately one of His Majesties chaplaines, and Rector of Castleford and Ackworth neere Pontefract in Yorke-shire. Bradley, Thomas, 1597-1670. 1651 (1651) Wing B4130; Thomason E637_1; ESTC R19661 52,275 95

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