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A90065 A sermon, tending to set forth the right vse of the disasters that befall our armies. Preached before the honourable houses of Parliament, at a fast specially set apart upon occasion of that which befell the army in the west. In Margarets Westminster, Sept. 12. Anno 1644. / By Matthew Newcomen, Minister of the Gospell at Dedham in Essex. Newcomen, Matthew, 1610?-1669. 1644 (1644) Wing N913; Thomason E16_1; ESTC R18134 39,055 48

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