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cause_n act_n law_n sin_n 1,487 5 5.2539 4 false
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A75727 The great venture shewing that man's life in this world is a venture, wherein he runs the hazard of an everlasting estate of happiness or misery in another world, according as he behaves himself here : also advice to youth, with several other things profitable for all who will seriously read and mind them / by E.A., a well-wisher to the souls of men. E. A. 1668 (1668) Wing A3C; ESTC R222189 6,947 20

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