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David restored. Or An antidote against the prosperity of the vvicked and the afflictions of the iust, shewing the different ends of both. In a most seasonable discourse upon the seventy third Psalme, / by the right Reverend father in God Edward Parry late L. Bishop of Killaloe. Opus posthumum.
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Parry, Edward, d. 1650.
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Wing P556; Thomason E1812_1; Thomason E1812_2; ESTC R209776
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