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A
PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM.
TAKEN FROM A VIEW
OF THE
EDUCATION AND DISCIPLINE,
SOCIAL MANNERS,
CIVIL AND POLITICAL ECONOMY,
RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES
AND
CHARACTER,
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
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.
62
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