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A27428 The folly and unreasonableness of atheism demonstrated from the advantage and pleasure of a religious life, the faculties of humane souls, the structure of animate bodies, & the origin and frame of the world : in eight sermons preached at the lecture founded by ... Robert BOyle, Esquire, in the first year MDCXCII / by Richard Bentley ... Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742. 1699 (1699) Wing B1931; ESTC R21357 132,610 286

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