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A64897 God in the mount, or, Englands remembrancer being a panegyrich piramides, erected to the everlasitng high honour of Englands God, in the most gratefull commemoration of al the miraculous Parliamentarie, mercies wherein God hath been admirably seen in the mount of deliverance, in the extreme depth of Englands designed destruction, in her years of jubile, 1641 and 1642 / by ... John Vicars. Vicars, John, 1579 or 80-1652. 1642 (1642) Wing V308; ESTC R4132 108,833 120

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