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A86695 A dry rod blooming and fruit-bearing. Or, A treatise of the pain, gain, and use of chastenings. Preached partly in severall sermons, but now compiled more orderly and fully for the direction and support of all Gods chastened that suffer either in Christ, or for Christ in these dayes. By G. Hughes, B.D. pastor of the church in Plymouth. Hughes, George, 1603-1667. 1644 (1644) Wing H3308; Thomason E48_9; ESTC R14529 125,445 138

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