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Quotation dates: 1605-1606
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(Stummer,) Stammer, n. [Stum(m)er v.] A stumbling. — 1605-6 Welsh Forty-eight Serm. 99.
For unless there be … a lively remembrance of your falls ye cannot repent; now in thy remembrance consider that there was never a stammer that thou madest from grace, but it pierced the Son of God to the very heart
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