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cause_n ghost_n holy_a son_n 5,168 5 5.9174 4 true
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A30669 The mystery of iniquity discovered to work in the children of disobedience whereby the pretended godliness of schismaticks appeareth to be the greatest ungodliness : in a cathedral-lecture at St. Peters in Exon / by Arthur Bury ... Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713. 1660 (1660) Wing B6198; ESTC R43074 27,889 48

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