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A80396 A pattern of mercy. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls, before the Right Honorable, the Lord Mayor, and the Lord General Monck: February 12. 1659. / By Tobias Conyers, minister at St. Ethelberts, London. Conyers, Tobias, 1628-1687. 1660 (1660) Wing C5994; Thomason E774_8; ESTC R207295 28,966 47

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