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cause_n body_n life_n soul_n 5,160 5 5.5664 4 true
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A43620 The good old cause, or, The divine captain characteriz'd in a sermon (not preach'd, nor needful to be preach'd, in any place so properly as in a camp) by Edm. Hickeringill ... Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708. 1692 (1692) Wing H1807; ESTC R7616 21,900 38

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