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A90291 The stedfastness of promises, and the sinfulness of staggering: opened in a sermon preached at Margarets in Westminster before the Parliament Febr. 28. 1649. Being a day set apart for solemn humiliation throughout the nation. By John Owen minister of the Gospel. Owen, John, 1616-1683. 1650 (1650) Wing O808; Thomason E599_9; Thomason E618_7; ESTC R203108 32,151 58

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