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A61799 A consultation about religion, or, What religion is best to be chosen with an appendix upon this question, whether every one may be saved in his own religion / translated out of Latin in which it was written by an eminent professor of divinity. Lechmere, Edmund, d. 1640? 1693 (1693) Wing S5928A; ESTC R27505 93,395 238

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