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A61645 A stock of divine knowledge, being a lively description of the divine nature, or, The divine essence, attributes, and Trinity particularly explaned [sic] and profitably applied the first, shewing us what God is : the second, what we ought to be / by the late learned and laborious preacher, and worthy instrument of Gods glory, Richard Stock ... Stock, Richard, 1569?-1626. 1641 (1641) Wing S5693; ESTC R34616 191,839 352

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