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A08279 A load-starre to spirituall life. Or, a Christian familiar motiue to the most sweet and heauenly exercise of diuine prayer With prayers for morning and euening. Written to stir vp all men to watchfulnesse and reformation of their carnall and corrupt liues. By I. Norden. Norden, John, 1548-1625? 1614 (1614) STC 18612; ESTC S100614 72,800 324

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