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A04506 A godly exhortation made vnto the people of Antioch, by Iohn Chrysostome, sometime arch bishop of Constantinople: touching the patience and suffering affliction, by the examples of Iob, and the three children: and of refraining from swearing. Translated out of Latin into English, by Robert Rowse minister of the word of God John Chrysostom, Saint, d. 407.; Rowse, Robert. 1597 (1597) STC 14633; ESTC S107986 15,074 56

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