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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38017	An enquiry into four remarkable texts of the New Testament which contain some difficulty in them, with a probable resolution of them by John Edwards ...	Edwards, John, 1637-1716.	1692 (1692)	Wing E208; ESTC R17328	127,221	286

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