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A36940 Sips of sweetness, or, Consolation for weake beleevers a treatise discoursing of the sweetnesse of Christs carriage towards all his weake members : particularly to such as are weake either [brace] 1. habitually, or 2. accidentally, by reason of [brace] 1. working, 2. sinning, or 3. suffering : being the summe of certain sermons preached upon Isa. 40, 11 / by John Durant ... Durant, John, b. 1620. 1649 (1649) Wing D2678A; ESTC R35030 84,697 224

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