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A87607 Lux & lex, or The light and the lavv of Jacobs house: held forth in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons at St Margarets Westminster March 31. 1647. being the day of publike humiliation. / By Robert Johnson, Eboraicus, one of the Assembly of Divines. Johnson, Robert, d. 1670. 1647 (1647) Wing J818; Thomason E383_6; ESTC R201430 43,460 44

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