The path of the just cleared, and cruelty and tyranny laid open, or, A few words to you priests, and magistrates of this nation, (who say we deny the Scriptures, and that we are antichrists and deceivers, and that we deny the Word of God) [electronic resource] : wherein your oppression and tyranny is laid open, which by you is unjustly acted against the servants of the Living God, who by the world which hate the light of Christ, are in derision called Quakers : wherein also is something declared both to judges and justices ... : also the ground and cause of the imprisonment of George Whitehead and John Harwood ... / from the spirit of the Living God in me, whose name in the flesh is George Whitehead ... ; also a paper against the sin of idleness
- Bib ID:
- 8264519
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- Author:
- Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723
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- London : Printed for Giles Calvert ..., 1655
- 26 p.
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- Early English books online.
- Notes:
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- "To all you rulers, gentry, priests, and people ..." signed: John HArwood, p. 24-26.
- Reproduction of original in the Union Theological Seminary Library.
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- Harwood, John. To all you rulers, gentry, priests, and people
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