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A50133 Humiliations follow'd with deliverances a brief discourse on the matter and method of that humiliation which would be an hopeful symptom of our deliverance from calamity accompanied and accommodated with a narrative of a notable deliverance lately received by some English captives from the hands of cruel Indians and some improvement of that narrative : whereunto is added A narrative of Hannah Swarton, containing a great many wonderful passages, relating to her captivity and deliverance. Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728.; Swarton, Hannah. 1697 (1697) Wing M1116; ESTC R19464 26,849 74

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