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nature_n	humane_a	law_n	positive_a	2,470	5	10.9031	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A20517	A reply to M. Nicholas Smith, his discussion, of some pointes of M. Doctour Kellison his treatise of the hierarchie. By a divine	Divine.; Lechmere, Edmund, d. 1640?; Kellison, Matthew.	1630 (1630)	STC 6929; ESTC S109712	163,687	351

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