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A05350 A warning for Israel in a sermon preached at Christ-Church, in Dublin, the 30. of October, 1625. By Henry Leslie, one of his Majesties chaplaines in ordinary. Leslie, Henry, 1580-1661. 1625 (1625) STC 15502; ESTC S102370 30,258 50

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