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The great mistery of the great whore unfolded: and Antichrists kingdom revealed unto destruction : In answer to many false doctrines and principles which Babylons merchants have traded with, being held forth by the professed ministers, and teachers, and professors in England, Ireland, and Scotland, taken under their owne hands, and from their owne mouths, sent forth by them from time to time, against the despised people of the Lord called Quakers, who are of the seed of that woman, who hath been long fled into the wildernes. Also an invasion upon the great city Babylon, with the spoling of her golden cup, and delicate merchandize, whereby she hath deceived the world and nations... in this answer to the multitude of doctrines held forth by the many false sects, which have lost the key of knowledge, and been on foot since the apostles dayes, called Anabaptists, Independents, Presbyters, Ranters, and many others, who out of their own mouths have manifested themselves not to be of a true descent from the true Christian Churches: but it's discovered that they have been all made drunk with the wine of fornication received from the whore which hath sitten upon the beast, after whom the world hath wondred

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Title: The great mistery of the great whore unfolded: and Antichrists kingdom revealed unto destruction : In answer to many false doctrines and principles which Babylons merchants have traded with, being held forth by the professed ministers, and teachers, and professors in England, Ireland, and Scotland, taken under their owne hands, and from their owne mouths, sent forth by them from time to time, against the despised people of the Lord called Quakers, who are of the seed of that woman, who hath been long fled into the wildernes. Also an invasion upon the great city Babylon, with the spoling of her golden cup, and delicate merchandize, whereby she hath deceived the world and nations... in this answer to the multitude of doctrines held forth by the many false sects, which have lost the key of knowledge, and been on foot since the apostles dayes, called Anabaptists, Independents, Presbyters, Ranters, and many others, who out of their own mouths have manifested themselves not to be of a true descent from the true Christian Churches: but it's discovered that they have been all made drunk with the wine of fornication received from the whore which hath sitten upon the beast, after whom the world hath wondred

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Classmark: Leeds Friends' Old Library 372

Creator(s): Fox, George (1624-1691)

Additional creator(s): Burrough, Edward (1633-1663) (Other)

Publisher: Printed for Tho. Simmons

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1659

Language: English

Size and medium: 32 unnumbered pages, 375 pages, 1 unnumbered page

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/236770

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991013025609705181

Collection group(s): Quaker Collection

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"The Epistle To The Reader" signed: Edward Burrough. London the 9. Mo. 1658.


Indexed in: Wing F1832; Smith I, 657.

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Attached to p.41 is a fore-edge title-label reading Geo. Fox's Great Mistery Unfolded. Signature of Samuel Briscoe on endpaper and title-page. MS. corrections in the 'Epistle'. Front and back covers blind-stamped T T

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