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A14381 Edom and Babylon against Jerusalem, or, meditations on Psal. 137. 7 Occasioned by the most happy deliverance of our church and state (on November 5. 1605.) from the most bloody designe of the papists-gunpowder-treason. Being the summe of divers sermons, delivered by Thomas Vicars B.D. Pastour of Cockfield in South-sex. ... Vicars, Thomas, d. 1638. 1633 (1633) STC 24699; ESTC S102674 31,977 82

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