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A54652
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A caveat against covetousness occasioned by some scandalous and pernicious fruit of it, in one amongst us, whose heart went after it / written for admonition to others, by Charles Phelpes.
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Phelpes, Charles.
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Wing P1974; ESTC R13348
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