Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n
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A80339
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Confidence corrected, error detected, and truth defended; or Some farther reflections upon the two Athenian Mercuries lately publish'd about infant-baptism. By Philalethes Pasiphilus.
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Pasiphilus, Philalethes.
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1692
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Wing C5803A; ESTC R223470
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