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A47611 Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark Keach, Benjamin, 1640-1704. 1691 (1691) Wing K93; ESTC R218957 120,395 415

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