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7-13 1918

A

PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM.

TAKEN FROM A VIEW

OF THE

EDUCATION AND DISCIPLINE,

SOCIAL MANNERS,

CIVIL AND POLITICAL ECONOMY,

RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES

AND

CHARACTER,

OF THE

Society of Friends.

BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A.
AUTHOR OF SEVERAL ESSAYS ON THE AVE TRADE,

VOL. III.

New-York:

PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL STANSBURY, NO. 111 WATER-STREET

CONTENTS

OF THE

THIRD VOLUME.

GREAT TENETS.

CHAPTER I.

Civil government-Governors have no right to interfere in matters of reli-

gion-Nor are the governed bound to obey, where their consciences are

oppressed by doing it but they are to be willing to suffer the penalties

annexed to their disobedience-and they are on no account to resist

them by force of arms, p.

CHAPTER II.

1

Oaths-Christians are not to take civil oaths-Reasons of the Quakers for

their disuse of them, p.

CHAPTER III.

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SECT. I. War-Unlawful for Christians to fight-Scriptural passages

support of this tenet-Answers to these and replies, p.

SECT. II. These passages supported by the opinions and practice of the early

Christians, p.

31

SECT. III. Objection to the motive assigned for this practice-Reply to this

objection-Motive confirmed, p.

41

SECT. IV. Conduct of the early Christians farther examined—While Chris-

tianity continued pure, they held it unlawful to fight-As it became less

pure, their scruples against it declined-As it became corrupt, they

ceased, p.

52

SECT. V. Reflections of the author on the foregoing subject-Supposed con

versation with a superior being in another region-New arguments

from thence, p.

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