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A23100 The sinners glasse containing Augustines Ladder to paradise : with diuers meditations and prayers, both for morning and euening / collected out of Saint Augustine and other ancient fathers. Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Pimm, Timo. 1609 (1609) STC 953.5; ESTC S1048 46,819 293

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