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A37316 A Check to debauchery, and other crying sins of these times with several useful rules for the attaining the contrary virtue : to which are annexed some directions and heads for meditation and prayer, taken out of Holy Scripture ... Oct. 26. 92 ... L. D. 1692 (1692) Wing D51; ESTC R23020 47,625 168

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