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A52291 An answer to an heretical book called The naked Gospel which was condemned and ordered to be publickly burnt by the convocation of the University of Oxford, Aug. 19, 1690 : with some reflections on Dr. Bury's new edition of that book : to which is added a short history of Socinianism / by William Nicholls. Nicholls, William, 1664-1712.; Bury, Arthur, 1624-1713. Naked Gospel. 1691 (1691) Wing N1091; ESTC R28145 124,983 144

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