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A00643 The souls looking-glasse lively representing its estate before God: with a treatise of conscience; wherein the definitions and distinctions thereof are unfolded, and severall cases resolved: by that reverend and faithfull minister of the Word, William Fenner, B.D. sometimes fellow of Pembroke-hall in Cambridge, and late parson of Rochford in Essex. Fenner, William, 1600-1640.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666. 1640 (1640) STC 10779; ESTC S101939 116,565 318

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