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A10663 A treatise of the passions and faculties of the soule of man With the severall dignities and corruptions thereunto belonging. By Edvvard Reynoldes, late preacher to the honorable society of Lincoln's Inne: and now rector of the Church of Braunston in Northamptonshire. Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676. 1640 (1640) STC 20938; ESTC S115887 297,649 518

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