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A27605 The general inefficacy and insincerity of a late or death-bed repentance with earnestest disswasives from committing our eternal condition, to that infinite hazard, and a full resolution of the case, how far a death-bed repentance is possible, to be sincere and effectual. Beverley, Thomas. 1670 (1670) Wing B2147; ESTC R18995 57,818 104

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