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A77132 The description and confutation of mysticall Anti-Christ, the Familists; or, An information drawn up and published for the confirmation and comfort of the faithfull, against many Antichristian Familisticall doctrines which are frequently preached and printed in England: particularly in those dangerous books called Theologia Germanica, the Bright Star, Divinity and Philosophy dissected. / Written by Benjamin Bourne. Published according to order. Bourne, Benjamin, fl. 1646. 1646 (1646) Wing B3844; Thomason E349_21; STC 672; ESTC R201037 116,136 151

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