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    • Author/Creator:Searson, John.
    • Title:Two discourses delivered in the prison of Philadelphia, on the two following texts; [microform] : Matthew XV. 25. Then came she and worshiped him, saying, Lord help me. Isaiah XLV. 15. Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel the Saviour. / By a lay-man of the Church of England. ; [One line from Job]
    • Published/Created:Philadelphia: : Printed and sold by William Evitt, at the Sign of the Bible-in-Heart, in Strawberry-Alley, for the benefit of the prisoners of the said prison. [1770]
    • Physical Description:17, [1] p.
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    • Notes:"To the Reverend William Smith, D.D. ..." signed: John Searson. Philadelphia Prison, February, 1770.
      "Of the printer hereof may be had Bibles, testaments, spelling-books, Watt's Psalms, different sorts of primers, best black ink, quills, writing paper, &c. &c. Also an assortment of genuine patent medicines ..."--p. 17.
      Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11852).
    • Format:Book
    • Series:Early American imprints. First series ; no. 11852.
    • References:Evans, C. American bibliography, 11852
    • Genre/Form:Booksellers' advertisements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
      Advertisements--Stationery.
      Advertisements--Medicines, Patent, proprietary, etc.
    • Also listed under:Old State Prison (Philadelphia, Pa.).
      United States--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.