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A54679 Self-homicide-murther, or, Some antidotes and arguments gleaned out of the treasuries of our modern casuists and divines against that horrid and reigning sin of self-murther by T.P., Esq. ... Philipot, Thomas, d. 1682. 1674 (1674) Wing P2001; ESTC R6160 17,207 33

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