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A63780 Truth vindicated against all heresies shewing how the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent is distinguished : the woman cloathed with the sun discoverd, she having the moon under her feet : the Old and New Testament made to agree and God's justice and mercy magnified. Marsin, M. 1698 (1698) Wing T3162; ESTC R32876 65,626 96

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