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A36654 A third reply, or, A short return to Mr. Baxters brief answer to my second reply, in his postscript to a late treatise of justification wherein his contradictious and slanderous way of writing is further detected / by H. D'Anvers. Danvers, Henry, d. 1687. 1676 (1676) Wing D232; ESTC R36070 13,883 17

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