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A63127 Christian chymistrie extracting the honey of instruction from variety of objects. Being an handfull of observations historicall, occasionall, and out of scripture. With applications theologicall and morall. By Caleb Trenchfield, sometime minister of the church at Chipsted in Surrey. Trenchfield, Caleb, 1624 or 5-1671. 1662 (1662) Wing T2121; ESTC R219723 79,230 213

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