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A60139 A new-years-gift: containing serious reflections on time, and eternity And some other subjects moral and divine. With an appendix concerning the first day of the year, how observed by the Jews, and may best be employed by a serious Christian. Shower, John, 1657-1715. 1699 (1699) Wing S3675; ESTC R219104 105,675 262

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