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A65154 A healing question propounded and resolved upon occasion of the late publique and seasonable call to humiliation in order to love and union amongst the honest party, and with a desire to apply balsome to the wound, before it become incurable. Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. 1656 (1656) Wing V69; ESTC R38388 16,135 28

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