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A49962 The great day of judgment handled in a sermon preached at the assizes at New-Bristol, Octob. 7, 1687 / by the reverend and learned Samuel Lee, M.A., sometimes fellow of Wadham Colledge in Oxon ; accompany'd with preparatory meditations upon the Day of Judgment, by Mr. Cotton Mather. Lee, Samuel, 1625-1691.; Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. 1692 (1692) Wing L896; ESTC R41402 29,252 97

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