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A30270 A call to sinners such as are under sentence of death and such as are under any prospect of it from the long-suffering and gracious, but most righteous God / by His servant, Daniel Burgess. Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713. 1689 (1689) Wing B5695; ESTC R23828 12,715 36

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