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A97067 Truth tried: or, animadversions on a treatise published by the Right Honorable Robert Lord Brook, entituled, The Nature of Truth, its vnion and vnity with the soule. Which (saith he) is one in its essence, faculties, acts; one with truth. By I. W. Wallis, John, 1616-1703. 1643 (1643) Wing W615; Thomason E93_21; ESTC R11854 114,623 143

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