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A33354 The grand tryal, or, Poetical exercitations upon the book of Job wherein suitable to each text of that sacred book, a modest explanation, and continuation of the several discourses contained in it, is attempted / by William Clark. Clark, William, advocate. 1685 (1685) Wing C4568; ESTC R16925 382,921 381

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