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A35172 KelaŹ» le-dor a compend of the covenant of grace as the most solid support under the most terrible conflicts of death, though arm'd with desertion, decay of grace, and sense of guilt / by Walter Cross. Cross, Walter, M.A. 1693 (1693) Wing C7258; ESTC R27629 28,536 34

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