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A49960
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Ecclesia Gemens, or, Two discourses on the mournful state of the Church, with a prospect of her dawning glory exhibited in a view of two Scriptures, representing her as a myrtle-grove in a deep bottom, and as a knot of lillies among thorns.
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Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.
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Wing L894; ESTC R2097
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