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A33525 A practical discourse of prayer wherein is handled the nature, the duty, the qualifications of prayer, the several sorts of prayer, viz. ejaculatory, publick, private and secret prayer : with the necessity of, and ingagements unto, prayer : together with sundry cases of conscience about it / by Thomas Cobbet. Cobbet, Thomas, 1608-1685. 1654 (1654) Wing C4780; ESTC R29965 290,377 588

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