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A41794 A marriage sermon a sermon called a vvife mistaken, or, A wife and no wife, or, Leah in stead of Rachel a sermon accused for railing against women : for maintaining polygamie many wives : for calling Iacob a hocus-pocus : a sermon laught at more than a play, by the ignorant, for many such mistakes : justified by the wife / by Tho. Grantham ... Grantham, Thomas, d. 1664. 1641 (1641) Wing G1553; ESTC R177616 9,043 17

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