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A54065 Some things of great weight and concernment to all briefly opened, and held forth from a true sense and understanding, for the healing of the ruines and breaches, which the enemy of mankind hath made in mans souls, as 1. Some assertions concerning the principle and way of life, 2. Some further directions to Christ, the principle and fountain of life, 3. The end of Christ's manifestation, His Salvation, and whom He saves, 4. Three questions answered concerning justification, 5. Of the pure, constant, eternal, unchangeable nature of God's Truth / written in the time of my confinement in Alisbury when love was working in me, and the life of God in me travelling and wrestling with the Lord for the salvation of others, Isaac Penington. Penington, Isaac, 1616-1679. 1667 (1667) Wing P1204; ESTC R14964 13,989 22

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