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A60994
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The case of the Quakers relating to oaths stated wherein they are discovered, to oppose propheticall, to pervert evangelicall, to falsifie ecclesiasticall, and to contradict their own doctrine / by J.S.
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J. S.
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1674
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Wing S48; ESTC R2531
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