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A36939 A discovery of glorious love, or, The love of Christ to beleevers opened, in the truth, transcendency, and sweetness thereof together with the necessity that lyes upon every beleever, to strive after the spirituall and experimentall knowledge of it : being the sum of VI sermons preached upon Ephesians 3.19 / by John Durant ... Durant, John, b. 1620. 1655 (1655) Wing D2677; ESTC R17285 97,378 288

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