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A25299 The saints security against seducing spirits, or, The anointing from the Holy One the best teaching : delivered in a sermon at Pauls before the Lord Mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of London, upon the fifth of November, 1651 / by William Ames ... Ames, William, d. 1689. 1652 (1652) Wing A3009; ESTC R11 27,575 47

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