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A12198 The soules conflict with it selfe, and victory over it self by faith a treatise of the inward disquietments of distressed spirits, with comfortable remedies to establish them / by R. Sibbs ... Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635. 1635 (1635) STC 22508.5; ESTC S95203 241,093 618

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