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A93053 Advice to young persons, relating both to faith & practice contain'd in some plain directions how to demean themselves : together with some few motives to the observation of what is here recommended. Shaw, Samuel, 1635-1696. 1698 (1698) Wing S3034A; ESTC R42460 16,872 50

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