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A30994 A discourse concerning the nature of Christ's Kingdom with relation to the kingdoms of this world in two sermons preach'd at St. Maries before the University of Cambridge by Miles Barne. Barne, Miles, d. 1709? 1682 (1682) Wing B858; ESTC R28352 25,388 69

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