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A27398 A tender and unfeigned salutation of love and good-will to professors, or, A tender invitation and call unto all people in whose hearts there hath been, and still is, some true desiring and breathing after the Lord God ... from one whose tender soul (in spirit) doth travel for the prosperity of Sion ... / a friend to all people, William Bennit. Bennit, William, d. 1684. 1664 (1664) Wing B1894; ESTC R5155 19,011 34

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