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A69449 The doctrine & directions but more especially the practice and behavior of a man in the act of the nevv birth A treatise by way of appendix to the former. By Isaac Ambrose, minister of Christ at Preston in Amounderness in Lancashire. Ambrose, Isaac, 1604-1664. 1650 (1650) Wing A2955; ESTC R37037 61,894 74

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