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A42823 A præfatory answer to Mr. Henry Stubbe, the doctor of Warwick wherein the malignity, hypocrisie, falshood of his temper, pretences, reports, and the impertinency of his arguings & quotations in his animadversions on Plus ultra are discovered / by Jos. Glanvill. Glanvill, Joseph, 1636-1680. 1671 (1671) Wing G821; ESTC R23393 87,889 234

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