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A65177 A pilgrimage into the land of promise, by the light of the vision of Jacobs ladder and faith, or, A serious search and prospect into life eternal pointing out the way and discovering the passage out of mans mutable state of life, into a state of immutable righteousness and glory, through the knowledg of Christ in spirit / written in the year 1662 by Henry Vane ... Vane, Henry, Sir, 1612?-1662. 1664 (1664) Wing V73; ESTC R32917 127,958 114

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