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The arraignment of a sinner at the bar of divine justice delivered in a sermon in St. Maries Church at Oxford, March the 5. 1655 before the Right Honourable, the Judges of Assize, &c. / by Robert Wilde ...
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Wild, Robert, 1609-1679.
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Wing W2165; ESTC R22649
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