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A39690 A token for mourners, or, The advice of Christ to a distressed mother bewailing the death of her dear and only son wherein the boundaries of sorrow are duly fixed, excesses restrained, the common pleas answered, and divers rules for the support of Gods afflicted ones prescribed / by J.F. Flavel, John, 1630?-1691. 1674 (1674) Wing F1197; ESTC R26707 66,956 170

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