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A54107 A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers in which their fundamental principle, doctrines, worship, ministry and discipline are plainly declared to prevent the mistakes and perversions that ignorance and prejudice may make to abuse the credulous : with a summary relation of the former dispensations of God in the world by way of introduction / by W. Penn. Penn, William, 1644-1718. 1694 (1694) Wing P1257; ESTC R30091 50,798 131

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