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truth_n attest_v good_a great_a 56 3 2.0643 3 false
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a30211 A treatise of the fear of God shewing what it is, and how distinguished from that what is not so : also whence it comes, who has it, what are the effects, and what the priviledges of those that have it in their hearts / by John Bunyan. Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. 1679 (1679) Wing B5603; ESTC R32009 112,120 247

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