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A dissertation on the right and obligation of the civil magistrate to take care of the interest of religion, and provide for its support : in which the arguments in confirmation of said right and obligation, both from reason and the Sacred Scriptures, are adduced: the usual objections examined, together with several corollaries deduced from the subject

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1804.
Call number: 12022
Creator: Backus, Simon (1738-1823)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 22 cm
Associated people: Eames, Wilberforce, (1855-1937,)
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