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A33522 A fruitfull and usefull discourse touching the honour due from children wherein both the respective duties of children to parents and of parents to children are cleared from Scripture, together with what may either further or hinder the same ... / by Thomas Cobbet. Cobbet, Thomas, 1608-1685. 1656 (1656) Wing C4777; ESTC R29964 162,603 256

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