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truth_n believe_v pleasure_n unrighteousness_n 2,527 5 11.3215 5 true
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A43805 The necessity of heresies asserted and explained in a sermon and clerum / by the author of the Catholic balance and published as a consolatory to the Church of England in the days of her controversie ... Hill, Samuel, 1648-1716. 1688 (1688) Wing H2010; ESTC R32969 19,436 34

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