proceed to the latter part of your testimony, and that, for which
all the foregoing seems only an introduction viz.

"It hath ever been our judgment and principle, since we were called to
profess the light of Christ Jesus, manifested in our consciences unto
this day, that the setting up and putting down kings and governments,
is God's peculiar prerogative; for causes best known to himself: And
that it is not our business to have any hand or contrivance therein;
nor to be busy bodies above our station, much less to plot and contrive
the ruin, or overturn of any of them, but to pray for the king, and
safety of our nation, and good of all men--That we may live a peaceable
and quiet life, in all godliness and honesty; UNDER THE GOVERNMENT
WHICH GOD IS PLEASED TO SET OVER US"--If these are REALLY your
principles why do ye not abide by them? Why do ye not leave that,
which ye call God's Work, to be managed by himself? These very
principles instruct you to wait with patience and humility, for the
event of all public measures, and to receive that event as the divine
will towards you. Wherefore, what occasion is there for your POLITICAL
TESTIMONY if you fully believe what it contains? And the very
publishing it proves, that either, ye do not believe what ye profess,
or have not virtue enough to practise what ye believe.

The principles of Quakerism have a direct tendency to make a man the
quiet and inoffensive subject of any, and every government WHICH IS SET
OVER HIM. And if the setting up and putting down of kings and
governments is God's peculiar prerogative, he most certainly will not
be robbed thereof by us: wherefore, the principle itself leads you to
approve of every thing, which ever happened, or may happen to kings as
being his work. OLIVER CROMWELL thanks you. CHARLES, then, died not
by the hands of man; and should the present Proud Imitator of him, come
to the same untimely end, the writers and publishers of the Testimony,
are bound, by the doctrine it contains, to applaud the fact. Kings are
not taken away by miracles, neither are changes in governments brought
about by any other means than such as are common and human; and such as
we are now using. Even the dispersion of the Jews, though foretold by
our Saviour, was effected by arms. Wherefore, as ye refuse to be the
means on one side, ye ought not to be meddlers on the other; but to
wait the issue in silence; and unless ye can produce divine authority,