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A89135 Antichrist in man the Quakers Idol. Or a faithfull discovery of their ways and opinions by an eye and ear-witness thereof. Together with an answer and confutation of some dangerous and damnable doctrines justified, in a paper sent by them unto me: as also one of them taken with a lie in his mouth before the magistrates. / By Joshuah Miller, a servant of Christ in the work of the Gospel. Miller, Joshua, 17th cent. 1655 (1655) Wing M2061; Thomason E868_1; ESTC R207650 27,464 39

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