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A92145 A sermon preached before the Right Honorable House of Lords, in the Abbey Church at Westminster, Wednesday the 25. day of Iune, 1645. Being the day appointed for a solemne and publique humiliation. / By Samuel Rutherfurd Professor of Divinitie at St. Andrews. Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661. 1645 (1645) Wing R2393; Thomason E289_11; ESTC R200125 61,133 73

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