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A95857 A charge against the Jews, and the Christian world, for not coming to Christ, who would have freely given them eternall life. Delivered in a sermon, before the Right Honorable the House of Peers, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, on May 26. 1647. being the day of their publick fast. / By Thomas Valentine, one of the Assembly of Divines, and Minister of Chalfont in the County of Bucks. Valentine, Thomas, 1585 or 6-1665? 1647 (1647) Wing V24; Thomason E389_6; ESTC R201520 27,808 35

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