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A60699 An Exalted Diotrephes reprehended, or, The spirit of error and envy in William Rogers against the truth and many of the antient and faithful Friends thereof manifested in his late monstrous birth or, work of darkness, (viz.), his false and scandalous book, intituled, The Christian Quaker-distinguished, &c. ... Snead, Richard, d. 1711. 1681 (1681) Wing S4390; ESTC R4219 32,521 50

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