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A93165 The widow's mite cast into the treasury for the repairing the breaches of the temple being an essay to explicate the sufferings of our blessed Saviour, and vindicate them from the imputation of a guilty sinner in the sight of God the father : with some reconciling paradoxes to be soberly enquired into / by J. St. N. in the 91st year of his age, a student in St. Paul's epistles. J. St. N. (John St. Nicholas), 1604-1698. 1695 (1695) Wing S345A; ESTC R42964 24,178 35

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