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A49137 Two discourses concerning the divinity of Our Saviour whereunto are added some articles subscribed by all the French divines in or about London, in opposition to the Socinians / translated out of French. La Mothe, Claude GrostĂȘte, sieur de, 1647-1713. 1693 (1693) Wing L299; ESTC R14659 61,471 74

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