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A46824 The state of the case, briefly but impartially given betwixt the people called Quakers, Pensilvania, &c. in America, who remain in unity, and George Keith, with some few seduced by him into a separation from them as also a just vindication of my self from the reproaches and abuses of those backsliders / by Samuel Jennings. Jennings, Samuel, d. 1708. 1694 (1694) Wing J670; ESTC R3996 38,369 87

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