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A08989 Christian see to thy conscience or a treatise of the nature, the kinds and manifold differences of conscience, all very briefly, and yet more fully laid open then hitherto by Richard Bernard, parson of Batcombe in Somerset-Shire. Anno 1630. Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641. 1631 (1631) STC 1928; ESTC S113805 87,184 494

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