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A32805 Of God Almighty's providence both in the sending and dissolving great snows & frosts, and the improvement we ought to make of it a sermon occasioned by the late extreme cold weather, preached in it to his neighbours, and now thought fit to be made more public, for the common good / by Benj. Camfield ... Camfield, Benjamin, 1638-1693. 1684 (1684) Wing C382; ESTC R5822 19,660 35

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