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A44070 The creatures goodness, as they came out of God's hands, and the good mans mercy to the brute creatures, which God hath put under his feet in two sermons : the first preached before the University of Oxford : the second at the lecture at Brackley / by Thomas Hodges ... Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688. 1675 (1675) Wing H2319; ESTC R17986 37,570 50

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