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A61865 Conscience the best friend upon earth: or, The happy effects of keeping a good conscience Very useful for this age. By Henry Stubbes, Minister of the Gospel. Stubbes, Henry, 1606?-1678. 1677 (1677) Wing S6029C; ESTC R222100 33,441 135

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