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The signal diagnostick whereby we are to judge of our own affections : and as well of our present, as future state, or, The love of Christ planted upon the very same turf, on which it once had been supplanted by the extreme love of sin : being the substance of several sermons, deliver'd at several times and places, and now at last met together to make up the treatise which ensues / by Tho. Pierce.

Pierce, Thomas, 1622-1691
Publisher: Printed by R N for R Royston
Place of Publication: London
Publication Year: 1670
Approximate Era: CharlesII
TCP ID: A54857 ESTC ID: R12333 STC ID: P2199
Subject Headings: Christian life; Sin;
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