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A66213 The missionarie's arts discovered, or, An account of their ways of insinuation, their artifices and several methods of which they serve themselves in making converts with a letter to Mr. Pulton, challenging him to make good his charge of disloyalty against Protestants, and an historical preface, containing an account of their introducing the heathen gods in their processions, and other particulars relating to the several chapters of this treatise. Wake, William, 1657-1737.; Hickes, George, 1642-1715. 1688 (1688) Wing W246A; ESTC R4106 113,409 130

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