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A60170 A new naked truth, or, The sandy foundation of the Sacramental test shaken, by a warning-piece discharged from heaven against all sorts of persecutors wherein you may hold Christ crucified mystically and sacramentally, upon the cross of the sacramental penal test, with all the rest of the penal laws and tests attending thereon, and contributing thereunto / by Giles Shute ... Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51. 1688 (1688) Wing S3709; ESTC R11222 67,483 56

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