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cause_n love_n love_v world_n 3,012 5 5.3978 4 true
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A12262 Samsons seaven lockes of haire allegorically expounded, and compared to the seauen spirituall vertues, whereby we are able to ouercome our spirituall Philistims. By M. A. Symson, minister of the euangell at Dalkeith. Simson, Archibald, 1564-1628. 1621 (1621) STC 22570; ESTC S102417 21,169 66

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