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A09046 Contemplative pictures with wholesome precepts. The first part: Of God. Of the diuell. Of goodnesse. Of badnesse. Of heauen: and of hell. By Richard Bernard. Bernard, Richard, 1568-1641. 1610 (1610) STC 1934; ESTC S113785 22,316 156

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