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A54857 The signal diagnostick whereby we are to judge of our own affections : and as well of our present, as future state, or, The love of Christ planted upon the very same turf, on which it once had been supplanted by the extreme love of sin : being the substance of several sermons, deliver'd at several times and places, and now at last met together to make up the treatise which ensues / by Tho. Pierce. Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691. 1670 (1670) Wing P2199; ESTC R12333 120,589 186

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