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A58888 A discoverie of the vvorld to come according to the Scriptures the first part thereof being didactical, or such as contains a form of positive doctrine : wherein 1. The doctrine of the world to come is propounded, explicated, confirmed, and applyed in a more familiar method then formerly hath been observed, 2. The doctrine of millenaries, touching a new reformed church in the latter times, which they call a new world, is confuted, 3. Sundry passages of holy writ are interpreted in reference to the world to come, which have been formerly wrested, and forced in a wrong sense / written by J. Seager... Seager, J. (John) 1650 (1650) Wing S2172; ESTC R32635 182,162 318

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all_o thing_n needful_a for_o you_o to_o know_v imprimatur_fw-la januar._n 19_o 1650._o joseph_n caryl_n finis_fw-la
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