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cause_n good_a great_a let_v 3,168 5 4.0636 3 true
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A57599 Loyalty and peace, or, Two seasonable discourses from I Sam. 24, 5 viz., David's heart smote him because he cut off Saul's skirt : the first of conscience and its smitings, the second of the prodigious impiety of murthering King Charles I, intended to promote sincere devotion and humiliation upon each anniversary fast for the Late King's death / by Samuel Rolls. Rolle, Samuel, fl. 1657-1678. 1678 (1678) Wing R1880; ESTC R25524 110,484 255

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