A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...

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A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ...
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Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Newberry and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1654.
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"A mirrour or looking-glasse both for saints and sinners held forth in about two thousand examples wherein is presented as Gods wonderful mercies to the one, so his severe judgments against the other collected out of the most classique authors both ancient and modern with some late examples observed by my self : whereunto are added the wonders of nature and the rare ... / by Sa. Clark ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33339.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.

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A Description of Mosco the Imperial City of Russia.

Mosco the Regal City of Russia is almost round, [ 2] and bigger then London, invironed with three strong walls circling the one within the other, and with many streets lying between: The inmost wall, and the buildings within it, fenced, and watered with the River of Moscua that runneth close by it, is all accounted the Emperours Castle. The number of houses, being formerly reckoned, was fourty one thousand five hundred. The streets instead of paving are planked with Fir-trees plained, and laid even, and close the one to the other. The houses are of wood without any lime or stone built very close, and warm with Firre-trees, which are fastened together with notches at each corner. Betwixt this timber they thrust in Mosse to keep out the ayr, so that they are very warm; the greatest danger is

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their aptnesse for firing whereby much hurt is many times done in that City. P. Pil.

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