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A94171 Hypocrisie discovered in its nature and workings. Delivered in several sermons, by that faithfull minister of the Gospell, Mr Cuthbert Sidenham, late teacher to a Church of Christ in Newcastle upon Tyne. Sydenham, Cuthbert, 1622-1654. 1654 (1654) Wing S6300; Thomason E1504_3; ESTC R208667 84,791 234

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