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A92141 Influences of the life of grace. Or, A practical treatise concerning the way, manner, and means of having and improving of spiritual dispositions, and quickning influences from Christ the resurrection and the life. By Samuel Rutherfurd, Professor of Divinity in the Vniversity of St. Andrews in Scotland. Rutherford, Samuel, 1600?-1661. 1659 (1659) Wing R2380; Thomason E971_1; ESTC R207742 387,780 467

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