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A28527 Mercurius Teutonicus, or, A Christian information concerning the last times being divers propheticall passages of the fall of Babel and the new building in Zion / gathered out of the mysticall writings of that famous Germane author, Jacob Behmen, alias, Teutonicus Phylosophus.; Selections. English Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624. 1649 (1649) Wing B3409 51,513 57

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