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A81992 Seismos megas. Or Heaven & earth shaken. A treatise shewing how kings, princes, and their governments are turned and changed by Jesus Christ as [brace] King of Kings, and King of Saints. / By John Davis, M.A. sometime lecturer at Christ Church in London, and now pastour of a congregation in Dover. Davis, John, pastor of a congregation in Dover. 1655 (1655) Wing D422; Thomason E1601_2 153,991 331

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