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A29421 A Brief and true account of the notorious principles and wicked practices of that grand impostor, Lodowick Muggleton who has the impudence to stile himself one of the two last commissionated witnesses and prophets of the Most High God Jesus Christ : collected out of his own writings, and made publick Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698. 1676 (1676) Wing B4532A; ESTC R7589 7,724 14

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