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A66997 Law-power, or, The law of relation written in the heart of ministers and people by the finger of God, is mighty through Him, to prevaile with both : to live as a people separated to their God, and from the world, specially at the Lord's Table. Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675. 1656 (1656) Wing W3496; ESTC R25194 60,431 76

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