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A87510 A mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall, in severall tractates: vvherein some of the most difficult knots in divinity are untied, many darke places of Scripture cleared, sundry heresies, and errours, refuted, / by Henry Ieanes, minister of God's Word at Chedzoy in Sommerset-shire.; Mixture of scholasticall divinity, with practicall. Part 1 Jeanes, Henry, 1611-1662. 1656 (1656) Wing J507; Thomason E872_3; Thomason E873_1; ESTC R202616 347,399 402

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