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A54914 A proper looking glasse for the daughters of Sion or St. Augustines life abbridged, and reduced into points of meditation VVith meditations for a spirituall exercise at clothings and professions. By Thomas Carre their confessour. Carre, Thomas, 1599-1674. 1665 (1665) Wing P2274; ESTC R220534 61,186 314

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