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A42830 Seasonable reflections and discourses in order to the conviction & cure of the scoffing, & infidelity of a degenerate age by Jos. Glanvill ... Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. 1676 (1676) Wing G830; ESTC R23378 24,921 115

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