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A47740 A discourse proving the divine institution of water-baptism wherein the Quaker-arguments against it are collected and confuted : with as much as is needful concerning the Lord's supper / by the author of The snake in the grass. Leslie, Charles, 1650-1722. 1697 (1697) Wing L1128; ESTC R13375 53,245 76

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