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A49107 An answer to a Socinian treatise, call'd The naked Gospel, which was decreed by the University of Oxford, in convocation, August 19, Anno Dom. 1690 to be publickly burnt, as containing divers heretical propositions with a postscript, in answer to what is added by Dr. Bury, in the edition just published / by Thomas Long ... Long, Thomas, 1621-1707. 1691 (1691) Wing L2958; ESTC R9878 172,486 179

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