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A61850 A treatise shewing the subordination of the will of man unto the will of God by that eminently godly, able, and faithfull minister of Christ, William Strong, lately of the Abbey at Westminster ; the greatest part printed with his own marginal quotations in his life time, and now published by Mr. Rowe, Master Manton, and Master Griffith. Strong, William, d. 1654. 1657 (1657) Wing S6008; ESTC R17435 173,191 368

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