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A19037 The parable of the vncleane spirit pithily opened, and plainly applied; wherein is shewed Sathans possession, his dispossession, and repossession. A worke needfull for these secure times, in which the most neglect the meanes oftheir salvation. Preached, and now published, by Edmund Cobbes minister of the Word of God. Cobbes, Edmund, b. 1592 or 3. 1633 (1633) STC 5454; ESTC S116664 66,367 214

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