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A94343 A cluster of Canaans grapes. Being severall experimented truths received through private communion with God by his Spirit, grounded on Scripture, and presented to open view for publique edification. / By Col. Robert Tichbourn. Decemb. 25. 1648. Imprimatur Joseph Caryll. Tichborne, Robert, Sir, d. 1682. 1649 (1649) Wing T1148; Thomason E543_5; ESTC R203789 224,783 259

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