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A90367 A practical discourse concerning the redeeming of time by Edward Pelling, D.D. chaplain in ordinary to Their Majesties, and rector of Petworth in Sussex. Pelling, Edward, d. 1718. 1695 (1695) Wing P1085; ESTC R42376 51,075 127

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