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A34850 VindiciƦ veritatis, or, A confutation [...] the heresies and gross errours asserted by Thomas Collier in his additinal word to his body of divinity written by Nehemiah Coxe ... Coxe, Nehemiah. 1677 (1677) Wing C6719; ESTC R37684 130,052 153

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