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A10380 A warning to come out of Babylon, in a sermon preached by Master Andrew Ramsay, minister at Edinburgh; at the receiving of Mr. Thomas Abernethie, sometime Jesuite, into the societie of the truely reformed Church of Scotland Ramsay, Andrew, 1574-1660. 1638 (1638) STC 20657; ESTC S115617 27,981 57

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