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A26960 More reasons for the Christian religion and no reason against it, or, A second appendix to the Reasons of the Christian religion being I. an answer to a letter from an unknown person charging the Holy Scriptures with contradictions, II. some animadversions on a tractate De Veritate, written by ... Edward Herbert, Baron of Cherbury ... / by Richard Baxter. Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.; Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691. Reasons of the Christian religion. 1672 (1672) Wing B1313; ESTC R4139 63,611 190

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