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A60349 Poems in two parts first, an interlocutory discourse concerning the creation, fall, and recovery of man : secondly, a dialogue between faith and a doubting soul / by Samuel Slater. Slater, Samuel, d. 1704. 1679 (1679) Wing S3967; ESTC R37559 53,199 130

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