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A42310 Anti-Christ pointed and painted out in his true colours, or, The popes of Rome proven to bee that man of sinne and sonne of perdition fore-prophesied in Scripture by the clear witnessing of Roman Catholicks themselves, who lived and died in the communion of that church / by William Guild. Guild, William, 1586-1657. 1655 (1655) Wing G2203; ESTC R27163 64,002 182

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