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A10924 Christian curtesie: or, St. Pauls vltimum vale Deliuered in two sermons, on 2. Cor. 13.11. at St. Margarets on Fish-street-hill in London. By N. Rogers (sometimes preacher there) at his farewel, vpon his remoueal thence to a pastoral charge else-where. Rogers, Nehemiah, 1593-1660. 1621 (1621) STC 21194; ESTC S116107 47,357 86

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