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B08383 Some buds and blossoms of piety also, some fruit of the spirit of love. Which directs to the Divine wisdom, being a collection of several papers, found in manuscript, / written by a young man, many of them in the time of his apprenticeship, some of them since. Who, as appears by his writings, had a true travail after the knowledge of God, and heaven, and heavenly things. And did attain to know him and his son, Christ, whom he hath sent, which is life eternal. ; To which subjoyned is a tripple plea, touching law, physick and divinitie, formerly printed and subscribed T.C. B. A. (Benjamin Antrobus), d. 1715.; T. C. Tripple plea. 1684 (1684) Wing A3523A; ESTC R176216 28,434 89

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