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A19485 The brazen serpent: or, the copie of a sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, Decemb. 31. 1620. By Iohn Andrevves, priest and preacher of the VVord of God at Saint Iames Clerkenwell in Middlesex Andrewes, John, fl. 1615. 1621 (1621) STC 591; ESTC S122344 23,076 64

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