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A96467 A wonderful pleasant and profitable letter written by Mris Sarah Wight, to a friend, expressing the joy is to be had in God in great, deep, long, and sore afflictions. Occasioned by the death of her brother, the troubles of her mother; but especially the workings of God in her own heart. Published for the use of the afflicted. Wight, Sarah. 1656 (1656) Wing W2106; Thomason E1681_1; ESTC R209156 28,056 89

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