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A38772 A brief discovery of God's eternal truth and a way opened to the simple hearted whereby they may come to know Christ and his ministers, from Antichrist and his ministers : with a warning from the Lord to all people that do name the name of Christ, to depart from iniquity / written in the inquisition of Malta by ... Katherine Evans. Evans, Katharine, d. 1692. 1663 (1663) Wing E3453; ESTC R15841 22,883 58

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