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A75307 A treatise concerning religions, in refutation of the opinion which accounts all indifferent· Wherein is also evinc'd the necessity of a particular revelation, and the verity and preeminence of the Christian religion above the pagan, Mahometan, and Jewish rationally demonstrated. / Rendred into English out of the French copy of Moyses Amyraldus late professor of divinity at Saumur in France.; Traitté des religions. English. Amyraut, Moïse, 1596-1664. 1660 (1660) Wing A3037; Thomason E1846_1; ESTC R207717 298,210 567

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