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A53909 The study of quietness explained, recommended, and directed in a sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen, at the Guild-Hall chappel, March 16, 1683/4, and now published, as the heads were, elsewhere, more enlarged upon, in several discourses. Pearson, Richard, d. 1734. 1684 (1684) Wing P1017; ESTC R6934 38,545 70

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