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A41435
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A discourse concerning auricular confession as it is prescribed by the Council of Trent, and practised in the Church of Rome : with a post-script on occasion of a book lately printed in France, called Historia confessionis auricularis.
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Goodman, John, 1625 or 6-1690.
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Wing G1104; ESTC R6771
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