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A49589 The wedding-supper as it was handled out of the fourteen first verses of the 22. chapter of Matthew, in sundry exercises in Tavistock in Devon. Wherein the offer of salvation, both to Jews and Gentiles, is noted: and divers plain and pithy doctrines observed, and applied. Being the effect of twelve sermons preached by Thomas Larkham, the oppressed pastor of the despised Church of Christ there. Larkham, Thomas, 1602-1669.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver. 1652 (1652) Wing L442; ESTC R222016 113,881 272

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