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A96877 A relgious treatise upon Simeons song or, instructions advertising how to live holily, and dye happily. / Composed at first for the use of the truly pious Sir Robert Harley, knight of the honourable order of the Bath but since published by Timothy Woodroffe, B.D. Pastor to the church at Kingsland, in Herefordshire. Woodroffe, Timothy, 1593 or 4-1677.; Rowe, John, 1626-1677. 1658 (1658) Wing W3472A; Thomason E2119_1; ESTC R210138 91,617 274

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