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A35122 A defence of the true church called Quakers (come and coming out of the wilderness, Babylon, and the dark night of the apostacy of Antichrist into their own land, which is Sion the mountain of holiness, there to worship the Lord in spirit and truth) against the several sects and sorts of people, called Independants, Separatists or Brownists, Baptists, Fift-Monarchy-Men ... Crook, John, 1617-1699.; J. C. (John Collens), d. 1682. 1659 (1659) Wing C7202; ESTC R35612 46,726 58

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