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spirit_n holy_a lord_n work_n 7,405 5 5.2371 4 false
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A12168 A breathing after God. Or a Christians desire of Gods presence. By the late reverent and worthy divine Richard Sibs, Doctor in Divinity, master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge, and sometime preacher of Graies-Inne Sibbes, Richard, 1577-1635. 1639 (1639) STC 22477; ESTC S102403 23,657 124

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