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england_n	babylon_n	cry_v	zion_n	22	3	10.6444	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45335	A practical and polemical commentary, or, exposition upon the third and fourth chapters of the latter epistle of Saint Paul to Timothy wherein the text is explained, some controversies discussed, sundry cases of conscience are cleared, many common places are succinctly handled, and divers usefull and seasonable observations raised / by Thomas Hall ...	Hall, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1658 (1658)	Wing H436; ESTC R14473	672,720	512

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