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A29703 The privie key of heaven, or, Twenty arguments for closet-prayer in a select discourse on that subject with the resolution of several considerable questions : the main objections also against closet-prayer are here answered ... with twenty special lessons ... that we are to learn by that severe rod, the pestilence that now rageth in the midst of us / by Thomas Brooks. Brooks, Thomas, 1608-1680. 1665 (1665) Wing B4961; ESTC R24146 207,234 605

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