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A79501 Mr. John Child's book, entituled a second argument, for a more full and firm union amongst all good Protestants wherein the nonconformists taking the sacrament after the manner of the Church of England, is justified. The root and foundation of the Popish plot further discovered in a letter to a friend. Now republished upon the occasion of his disperation and fatal end: which book (as he hath often declared) was the occasion off [sic] it. Entred according to order. Child, John, 1638?-1684. 1684 (1684) Wing C3849; ESTC R231293 8,579 8

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