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An account of the conversion of the Reverend Mr. John Thayer, : lately a Protestant minister, at Boston in North-America, who embraced the Roman Catholic religion at Rome, on the 25th of May, 1783; written by himself. To which are annexed several extracts from a letter written to his brother, in answer to some objections. Also, a letter from a young lady lately received by him into the church, written after making her first communion. [One line in Latin from Psalms, with English translation]
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