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A29544 Balm from Gilead, or, The differences about the indulgence stated and impleaded in a sober and serious letter to ministers and Christians in Scotland / by an healing hand. Bairdy, John. 1681 (1681) Wing B475; ESTC R22267 103,282 194

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