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A51443 The preachers tripartite in three books. The first to raise devotion in divine meditations upon Psalm XXV : the second to administer comfort by conference with the soul, in particular cases of conscience : the third to establish truth and peace, in several sermons agianst the present heresies and schisms / by R. Mossom ... Mossom, Robert, d. 1679. 1657 (1657) Wing M2866; ESTC R32966 363,207 375

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