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faith_n conscience_n good_a shipwreck_n 6,895 5 12.1671 5 false
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A31933 Englands looking-glasse presented in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, December 22, 1641 / by Edmund Calamy ... Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. 1642 (1642) Wing C236; ESTC R206351 35,591 72

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