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A13993 The Christians looking glasse wherein hee may cleerely see, his loue to God liuely expressed, his fidelity truely discouered, and pride against God and man, anatomised. Whereby the hypocrisie of the times is notoriously manifested. By Thomas Tuke, minister of Gods word at Saint Giles in the Fields. Tuke, Thomas, d. 1657. 1615 (1615) STC 24304; ESTC S102478 58,392 160

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