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A86197 A sermon preached before the Right Honourable House of Lords, in the Abbey-Church at Westminster, Wednesday the 28. of May 1645. Being the day appointed for solemne and publick humiliation. / By Alexander Henderson, minister at Edenburgh. Henderson, Alexander, 1583?-1646. 1645 (1645) Wing H1443; Thomason E286_3; ESTC R200073 26,557 39

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