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A35538 An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ... Caryl, Joseph, 1602-1673. 1653 (1653) Wing C777; ESTC R19353 930,090 1,092

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