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A70235 The vanity of self-boasters, or, The prodigious madnesse of tyrannizing Sauls, mis-leading doegs, or any others whatsoever, which peremptorily goe on, and atheistically glory in their shame and mischief in a sermon preached at the funerall of John Hamnet, gent. late of the parish of Maldon in Surrey / by E.H. Minister ... Hinton, Edward, 1608 or 9-1678. 1643 (1643) Wing H2066; ESTC R7444 51,429 56

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