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A96652 A good and seasonable caveat for Christians. Delivered in a sermon at the funerall of the right worshipfull Sir Charles Shirley, Knight and baronet, in the parish church of Breedon, in Leicester-Shire. / By John Wilson, Master of Arts, and preacher of Gods word in the sayd parish. 7. Octob. 1646. Imprimatur, Jo. Downame. Wilson, John, of Breedon, Leicestershire. 1646 (1646) Wing W2899; Thomason E1182_5; ESTC R204901 27,614 71

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