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A64030 The measures and offices of friendship with rules of conducting it : to which are added, two letters written to persons newly changed in their religion / by Jer. Taylor, D.D.; Discourse of the nature, offices and measures of friendship Taylor, Jeremy, 1613-1667. 1657 (1657) Wing T350; ESTC R41495 50,636 214

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