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A59621 Antapologia, or, A discourse of excuses setting forth the variety and vanity of them, the sin and misery brought in by them, as being the greatest bar in the way to heaven, and the ready high way to hell : being the common snare wherein most of the children of men are intangled and ruined / by Jo. Sheffield ... Sheffeild, John, d. 1680. 1672 (1672) Wing S3061; ESTC R11053 145,253 322

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