Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10734	The benefite of affliction. A sermon, first preached, and afterwards enlarged, by Charles Richardson preacher at Saint Katharines neare to the Tower of London	Richardson, Charles, fl. 1612-1617.	1616 (1616)	STC 21013; ESTC S119812	42,110	112

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