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Ranters of both sexes, male and female: : being thirteen or more, taken and imprisoned in the gate-house at Westminster, and in the new-prison at Clerken Well. Wherein John Robins doth declare himself to be the great God of Heaven, and the great deliverer, and that his wife is with childe with Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world. With divers other blasphemous opinions, here truely set forth. Maintained before the Right VVorshipful Justice Whittacre, & Justice Hubbert. /

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Main Author:	Taylor, John, 1580-1653
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed for John Hammon, 1651.
Series:	Early English books online.
Subjects:	Robins, John, > fl. 1650-1652. Ranters > Early works to 1800.
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