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A30582 Gospel remission, or, A treatise shewing that true blessedness consists in pardon of sin wherein is discovered the many Gospel mysteries therein contained, the glorious effects proceeding from it, the great mistakes made about it, the true signs and symptomes of it, the way and means to obtain it / by Jeremiah Burroughs ; being several sermons preached immediately after those of The evil of sin by the same author, and now published by Philip Nye ... [et al.] Burroughs, Jeremiah, 1599-1646.; Nye, Philip, 1596?-1672. 1668 (1668) Wing B6081; ESTC R4316 194,926 239

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