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Excerpt from A Defence of the Sacred History of the Old Testament Against the Groundless Objections and False Insinuations of the Late Lord Bolingbroke, in His Letters on the Study and Use of History: In a Sermon Preached at the Visitation of the Reverend Dr. Stebbing, Archdeacon of Wilts, Held at Marlborough June the 15th, 1752
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