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A12361 Iacobs ladder, or The high way to heauen Being the last sermon that Master Henry Smith made. And now published, not (as many forged things haue beene in his name) to deceiue the Christian reader, but to instruct and prepare him with oyle in his lampe, ioyfully to meete the Lord Iesus in his second comming. Smith, Henry, 1550?-1591. 1595 (1595) STC 22677; ESTC S122459 18,803 31

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