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A00581 Comfort to the afflicted. Deliuered in a sermon preached at Pauls-Crosse the xxi. day of May, M. DC. XXVI. Being the last Sunday in Easter terme. By Antony Fawkener, Mast. of Arts, of Iesus Colledge in Oxford Fawkner, Antony, b. 1601 or 2. 1626 (1626) STC 10718; ESTC S118330 17,791 36

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