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Some remarkable passages in the holy life and death of the late Reverend Mr. Edmund Trench most of them drawn out of his own diary.
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Trench, Edmund, 1643-1689.; Boyse, J. (Joseph), 1660-1728.
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Wing T2109; ESTC R7785
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