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The vsurers plea answered In a sermon preached at Southampton the 18. day of Iuly, being Thursday, and their lecture day, 1633. By Roger Turner Mr. of Arts, and minister of Gods Word neere Southampton.
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Turner, Roger, b. 1603.
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