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A80530 Experience, historie, and divinitie Divided into five books. Written by Richard Carpenter, vicar of Poling, a small and obscure village by the sea-side, neere to Arundel in Sussex. Who being, first a scholar of Eaton Colledge, and afterwards, a student in Cambridge, forsooke the Vniversity, and immediatly travelled, in his raw, green, and ignorant yeares, beyond the seas; ... and is now at last, by the speciall favour of God, reconciled to the faire Church of Christ in England? Printed by order from the House of Commons. Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670? 1641 (1641) Wing C620B; ESTC R229510 263,238 607

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will_v scarce_o have_v think_v this_o have_v be_v little_a agnes_n i_o speak_v in_o the_o cloud_n and_o i_o be_o loath_a to_o come_v out_o of_o they_o till_o i_o be_o call_v and_o urge_v to_o speak_v what_o ought_v not_o to_o be_v speak_v without_o a_o command_n from_o necessity_n chap._n xiiii_o my_o superior_n now_o send_v i_o and_o one_o of_o they_o bring_v i_o to_o one_o of_o their_o great_a house_n in_o england_n be_v the_o house_n of_o a_o very_a noble_a personage_n where_o they_o be_v destitute_a of_o a_o preacher_n but_o i_o repair_v to_o london_n while_o the_o matter_n be_v hot_a in_o debate_v rumour_n have_v carry_v to_o their_o ear_n that_o i_o
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