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A42893 Miscellanea, or, Serious, useful considerations, moral, historical, theological together with The characters of a true believer, in paradoxes and seeming contradictions, an essay : also, a little box of safe, purgative, and restorative pils, to be constantly taken by Tho. Goddard, Gent. Goddard, Thomas. 1661 (1661) Wing G916; ESTC R7852 164,553 225

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