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A42041 Agape, or, The feast of love a sermon at the Oxford-shire feast, kept on Thursday Nov. 25, 1675 at Drapers-Hall in London : preached at St. Michael's Church in Cornhill / by Francis Gregory ... Gregory, Francis, 1625?-1707. 1675 (1675) Wing G1886; ESTC R7516 16,597 34

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