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A30380 The libertine overthrown, or, A mirror for atheists wherein they may clearly see their prodigious follies, vast extravagancies, notorious impieties and absurdities : containing a compendious account of the ... life and ... death of that the whole ... abstracted from the remarks of the Right Reverend D. Gilbert Burnet ... and the Reverend Mr. Parsons ... Burnet, Gilbert, 1643-1715.; Parsons, Robert, 1647-1714. 1690 (1690) Wing B5826; ESTC T18235 9,455 16

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