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A60590 Two compendious discourses the one concerning the power of God, the other about the certainty and evidence of a future state : published in opposition to the growing atheism and deism of the age. Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710. 1699 (1699) Wing S4254; ESTC R4066 40,478 66

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