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A26659 The church triumphant, or, A comfortable treatise of the amplitude and largeness of the kingdom of Christ wherein is proved by Scriptures and reason, that the number of the damned is inferiour to that of the elect / by Joseph Alford ... Alford, Joseph. 1649 (1649) Wing A921; ESTC R22399 57,799 139

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