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A27079 A testimony to the free and universal love of God in Jesus Christ to the sons of men in true love sent forth (more especially) to the inhabitants of Colchester and parts adjacent, for them to read over, and weigh with due and serious consideration, in the blessed fear of the Lord / by Thomas Bayle. Bayle, Thomas. 1675 (1675) Wing B1471; ESTC R11593 13,567 22

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