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A90811 Authentēs. Or A treatise of self-deniall. Wherein the necessity and excellency of it is demonstrated; with several directions for the practice of it. / By Theophilus Polwheile, M.A. sometimes of Emmanuel Colledge in Cambridge, now teacher of the Church at Teverton in Devon. Polwheile, Theophilus, d. 1689. 1658 (1658) Wing P2782; Thomason E1733_1; ESTC R209629 246,682 521

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