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A00816 Compassion towards captives chiefly towards our brethren and country-men who are in miserable bondage in Barbarie. Vrged and pressed in three sermons on Heb. 13.3. Preached in Plymouth, in October 1636. By Charles Fitz-Geffry. Fitz-Geffry, Charles, 1575?-1638. 1637 (1637) STC 10937; ESTC S102148 49,481 72

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