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A90272 The labouring saints dismission to rest. A sermon / preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Henry Ireton Lord Deputy of Ireland: in the Abbey Church at Westminster, the 6th. day of February 1651. By John Owen, minister of the Gospel. Licensed and entered according to order. Owen, John, 1616-1683. 1652 (1652) Wing O766; Thomason E654_3; ESTC R203087 19,571 28

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