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A26717 A rebuke to backsliders and a spurr for loyterers in several sermons lately preached to a private congregation and now published for the awakening a sleepy age / by R.A. R. A. (Richard Alleine), 1611-1681. 1677 (1677) Wing A999; ESTC R28205 187,452 290

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