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Lex Pacifica, or, Gods own law of determining controversies explain'd and asserted in a sermon preached at Dorchester at the Assizes holden there for the county of Dorset, August 5, 1664 / by John Martin ...
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Martin, John, 1619-1693.
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Wing M843; ESTC R31215
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