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A85941 The down-fall of Anti-Christ: or, The povver of preaching, to pull down popery. In a briefe treatise on 2. Thessal. 28. By John Geree, Pastour of Tewkesbury, in Glocester-Shire. Geree, John, 1601?-1649. 1641 (1641) Wing G595; Thomason E157_17 18,755 26

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