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A93880 The teachings of Christ in the soule. Opened in a sermon before the Right Honble House of Peers, in Covent-garden-Church, upon the solemne day of their monthly fast, March 29. 1648. / By Peter Sterry, M.A. sometimes fellow of Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge: and now preacher of the Gospel in London. Published by order of that House. Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672. 1648 (1648) Wing S5486; Thomason E433_30; ESTC R204205 36,001 61

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