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A30235 The difficulty of and the encouragements to a reformation a sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons at the publick fast, Septem. 27, 1643 / by Mr. Anthony Burges ... Burgess, Anthony, d. 1664. 1643 (1643) Wing B5643; ESTC R7338 25,238 35

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