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A29667 The nature of truth, its union and unity with the soule which is one in its essence, faculties, acts, one with truth / discussed by the Right Honorable Robert Lord Brook, in a letter to a private friend ; by whom it is now published for the publick good. Brooke, Robert Greville, Baron, 1607-1643. 1641 (1641) Wing B4913; ESTC S103446 48,160 214

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