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A28624 A tossed ship making to safe harbor, or, A word in season to a sinking kingdome wherein Englands case and cure, her burthens and comforts, her pressures and duties are opened and applyed : in diverse sermons preached upon the publick dayes of humiliation, out of that propheticall history, Matth. 14, 22 to 28 / by Samuel Bolton ... Bolton, Samuel, 1606-1654. 1644 (1644) Wing B3527; ESTC R4171 146,323 320

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