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A96519 The gainefull cost. As it was delivered in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church of Westminster, on VVednesday the 27. of November, being the day appointed for solemn and publike humiliation. By Henry Wilkinson, B.D. Pastor of Faiths under Pauls. Wilkinson, Henry, 1610-1675. 1644 (1644) Wing W2222; Thomason E23_2; ESTC R20564 35,536 37

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