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A28341 The birth-priviledge, or, Covenant-holinesse of beleevers and their issue in the time of the Gospel together with the right of infants to baptisme / by Thomas Blake ... Blake, Thomas, 1597?-1657. 1644 (1644) Wing B3142; ESTC R12167 41,905 40

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