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A31367 Truths caracter of professors and their teachers which by looking through may bring to their remembrance the dayes of old, and how it was then with them, which may evidently shew unto them what hath befallen them since they degenerated from the measure of God, which some of them had in them, and it may also put them in mind of Gods justice and severity towards them ... / by William Caton. Caton, William, 1636-1665. 1660 (1660) Wing C1522; ESTC R24738 68,611 57

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