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truth_n believe_v hear_v know_v 2,139 5 3.5110 3 false
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A05025 A brief discouerie of the false church. 1590 Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593. 1591 (1591) STC 1517; ESTC S111924 311,536 274

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