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A64137 XXVIII sermons preached at Golden Grove being for the summer half-year, beginning on Whit-Sunday, and ending on the xxv Sunday after Trinity, together with A discourse of the divine institution, necessity, sacredness, and separation of the office ministeriall / by Jer. Taylor.; Sermons. Selections Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. 1651 (1651) Wing T405; ESTC R23463 389,930 394

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