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A81871 Comfort & counsell for dejected soules. Or a treatise concerning spirituall dejection. In which is handled, 1 the nature 2 the working 3 the grounds 4 the remedies of spiritual dejection. And in which is held forth, satisfaction to some particular cases, and generall advice for any soule who is cast downe. Being the heads and sum of divers sermons preached to a particular congregation from Psalm 42. last. By John Durant, preacher of the Gospel, and pastour of a church of Christ in Canterbury. Durant, John, b. 1620. 1650 (1650) Wing D2673; Thomason E1215_1; ESTC R208831 144,036 296

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