Selected quad for the lemma: judgement_n
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The popish proselyte the grand fanatick. Or an antidote against the poyson of Captain Robert Everard's Epistle to the several congregations of the non-conformists
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Harrison, Joseph.
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(1684)
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Wing H900; ESTC R216554
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