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A73288 VVaters of Marah, and Meribah: or, the source of bitternes, and strife, sweetned and allayed by way of aduice, refutation, censure, against the pseudo-zelots of our age: by Humphrey Sydenham, master of arts, late fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxford. Sydenham, Humphrey, 1591-1650? 1630 (1630) STC 23574; ESTC S125548 26,958 48

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