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A17297 Conflicts and comforts of conscience a treatise, shewing how the conscience, in cases of deepest distresse and distraction, may recollect it selfe, and recouer solid and sound comfort / collected from priuate proofe, for publike profit, by H.B. ... Burton, Henry, 1578-1648. 1628 (1628) STC 4140.4; ESTC S259 75,671 324

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