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The reasonablenes of scripture-beleif a discourse giving some account of those rational grounds upon which the Bible is received as the word of God / written by Sir Charles Wolseley ...
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Wolseley, Charles, Sir, 1630?-1714.
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Wing W3313; ESTC R235829
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