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To all magistrates and people in Christendom and elsewhere to turn from the persecuting mind that destroyes peoples bodies and estates for not conforming to your religion and worship : and that you may receive the mind of Christ, as the apostles did, who came to save mens lives, and not to destroy them, and to rebuke them that would destroy mens lives and estates / by George Fox.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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Wing F1939
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