Notes and Queries, Number 64, January 18, 1851

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1

[The title of Vane's work is, Of the Love of God, and Union with God, 4to. 1657. It is not to be found in the Catalogues of the British Museum, Bodleian, Sion College, D. Williams' library, or London Institution.]

2

See vol. ii., p. 138.