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An alarum to the last iudgement. Or An exact discourse of the second comming of Christ and of the generall and remarkeable signes and fore-runners of it past, present, and to come; soundly and soberly handled, and wholesomely applyed. Wherein diuers deep mysteries are plainly expounded, and sundry curiosities are duely examined, answered and confuted. By T.D. Bachelor of Diuinitie.
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Draxe, Thomas, d. 1618.
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