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A31179
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The case of the Quakers relating to oaths stated wherein they are discovered, to oppose prophetical, to pervert evangelical, to falsifie ecclesiastical, and to contradict their own doctrine.
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J. S.
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1696
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Wing C1151; ESTC R3580
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