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A59700 Discoveries, or, An exploration and explication of some enigmatical verities hitherto not handled by any author viz., in the written Word of God, in the commentaries of the fathers, in the cabal of the stoicks, many choice inferences and unheard of (yet considerable) nicities [sic] never proposed : also A seraphick rhapsodie on the passion of Jesus Christ our sole redeemer / by S. Sheppard. Sheppard, S. (Samuel) 1652 (1652) Wing S3160A; ESTC R29355 30,691 88

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