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A86324 The advantage of afflictions: a sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Peers, Ianuary 28. 1645. being the day of publike humiliation, in the Abbey Church, Westminster. / By Gaspar Hicks, a member of the Assembly of Divines. Hickes, Gaspar, 1605-1677. 1646 (1646) Wing H1837; Thomason E319_9; ESTC R200555 25,203 34

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