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A63550 The True loyalist wherein is discovered, First, the falsehood and deceipt of the solemn league and covenant, Secondly, that there is no salvation out of Christ, Thirdly, that the pope is the Anti-Christ, the man of sin, or the son of perdition, cum multis alias, &c. / by a true loyalist. True loyalist. 1683 (1683) Wing T2756; ESTC R31985 66,689 159

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