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A42062 Teares and bloud, or, A discourse of the persecution of ministers, with motives to martyrdom and cautions about it set forth in two sermons, both lately preached at Saint Mary's in Oxford / by Francis Gregory ... Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707. 1660 (1660) Wing G1905; ESTC R13097 43,961 52

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