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A26782 Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompences of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectick evil of the times / by William Bates ... Bates, William, 1625-1699. 1676 (1676) Wing B1101; ESTC R10741 84,039 330

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