Selected quad for the lemma: book_n

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book_n	open_v	see_v	small_a	2,385	5	6.2980	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68048	The rule of perfection contayning a breif and perspicuous abridgement of all the wholle spirituall life, reduced to this only point of the (vvill of God.) Diuided into three partes. The first treating of the exteriour will of God, contayning the actiue life. The second of the interiour vvill contayning the contemplatiue life. The third of the essentiall vvill concerning the life supereminent. Composed by the R.F. Benet Capucin, preacher, of the holie order of Saint Francis, novv of the prouince of France, heertofore called VV. Fitch, of Canfeld in Essex.; Règle de perfection. Part 1-2. English.	Benoît, de Canfield, 1562-1610.	1609 (1609)	STC 10928.3; ESTC S115066	90,218	200

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