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A53283 The soveraign efficacy of divine providence ... as delivered in a sermon preached in Cambridge on Sept. 10, 1677, being the day of artillery election there, by Mr. Urian Oakes... Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681. 1682 (1682) Wing O23; ESTC R31763 31,659 48

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