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A61370 A sermon to bring to remembrance God's wonderful mercies at the Boyn preach'd on the second day of July, 1699 at St. Nicholas within, Dublin: by John Stearne, D.D. Stearne, John, 1660-1745. 1699 (1699) Wing S5361; ESTC R221904 12,499 23

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