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A85833 An exhortation to peace: with an intimation of the prime enemies thereof, lately delivered in a sermon, and newly published with some small addition, by Lionell Gatford, B.D. rector of Dinnington in Suffolke, now a prisoner in Ely-house in Holborne. Gatford, Lionel, d. 1665. 1643 (1643) Wing G333; Thomason E94_1; ESTC R2004 27,384 44

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