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A51702 An offer of farther help to suffering saints, or, The best work in the worst times wherein the necessity, excellency, and means of preparation for sufferings are clearly evinced, and prescribed : in which, as in a glass, the people of God may see how to dress themselves for death, or any other suffering to which the Lord shall call : added as an appendix to the Sufferers mirrour. Mall, Thomas, b. 1629 or 30. 1665 (1665) Wing M334A; ESTC R232064 84,072 143

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