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A85709 A patheticall perswasion to pray for publick peace: propounded in a sermon preached in the cathedrall church of Saint Paul, Octob. 2. 1642. By Matthew Griffith, rector of S. Mary Magdalens neer Old-Fishstreet, London. Griffith, Matthew, 1599?-1665. 1642 (1642) Wing G2016; Thomason E122_17; ESTC R4434 34,095 58

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