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A19987 Doomes-Day: or, A treatise of the resurrection of the body Delivered in 22. sermons on 1. Cor. 15. Whereunto are added 7. other sermons, on 1. Cor. 16. By the late learned and iudicious divine, Martin Day ...; Doomes-Day Day, Martin, d. 1629. 1636 (1636) STC 6427; ESTC S109431 470,699 792

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