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A41383 A discourse of Christianity laying open the abuses thereof in the anti-Christian lives and worship of many of its professors, especially the Romanists : and shewing the way to a holy life in the character of a true Christian / written originally in French by the famous Monsieur de Gombaud ; and now done into English by P Lorrain. Gombauld, Jean Ogier de, d. 1666.; Lorrain, P. (Paul), d. 1719. 1693 (1693) Wing G1023; ESTC R14522 47,226 176

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