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A07996 The pearle of prayer most pretious and powerfull, or, A Christian treatise most necessarie for all these that desire to shew that wrath to come ... By Mr. William Narne ... Narne, William, 1583?-1653. 1620 (1620) STC 18360; ESTC S101894 161,410 486

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