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A39578 A love-token for mourners teaching spiritual dumbness and submission under Gods smarting rod : in two funeral sermons / by Samuel Fisher M.A., late preacher at Brides London, now at Thornton in Cheshire ; unto which is added, An antidote against the fear of death, being the meditations of the same author in a time and place of great mortality. Fisher, Samuel, 1616 or 17-1681. 1655 (1655) Wing F1059B; ESTC R42024 52,647 250

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