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work_n	father_n	son_n	trinity_n	4,352	5	10.1851	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28645	The soliloquies of St. Bonaventure containing his four mental exercises and also his treatise called, A bundle of myrrh, concerning the passion of our Saviour : with XII spirituall exercises of the said St. Bonaventure.	Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, ca. 1217-1274.	1655 (1655)	Wing B3555; ESTC R27893	73,818	360

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