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A75582 The just mans defence, or, The royal conquest being the declaration of the judgement of James Arminius, Doctor of Divinity in the University of Leyden, concerning the principall points of religion, before the States of Holland and VVestfriezland / translated for the vindication of truth, by Tobias Conyers, sometimes of Peter-house in Cambridge.; Declaratio sententiae de predestinatione. English Arminius, Jacobus, 1560-1609.; Conyers, Tobias, 1628-1687. 1657 (1657) Wing A3700A; ESTC R208013 52,267 187

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