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A11005 An exposition vpon some select Psalmes of David conteining great store of most excellent and comfortable doctrine, and instruction for all those that (vnder the burthen of sinne) thirst for comfort in Christ Iesus. Written by that faithfull servant of God, M. Robert Rollok, sometime pastour in the Church of Edinburgh: and translated out of Latine into English, by C. L. minister of the Gospell of Christ at Dudingstoun. The number of the psalmes are set downe in the page following.; Commentarius in selectos aliquot Psalmos. English Rollock, Robert, 1555?-1599.; Lumsden, Charles, ca. 1561-1630. 1600 (1600) STC 21276; ESTC S110527 186,758 565

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