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A92764 The godly mans choice, or, A direction how single godly persons, who intend marriage, may make choice of a fit and meet yoak-fellow being the meditations of Caleb Grantham in his single state, as a rule and guide for himself to walk by, and since his death perused and published with some profitable directions how persons should live as becometh Christians in the married state / by Henry Scudder ... Grantham, Caleb.; Scudder, Henry, d. 1659? 1644 (1644) Wing S2138B; ESTC R42507 34,805 158

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