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Title: A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume III (of 3)

Author: Thomas Clarkson

Release Date: March 9, 2005 [EBook #15304]

Language: English

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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,
OF THE

Society of Friends

* * * * *

BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A.

AUTHOR OF SEVERAL ESSAYS ON THE SLAVE TRADE.

VOL. III.

CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.

* * * * *

GREAT TENETS.

CHAPTER I.

_Civil government--Governors have no right to interfere in matters of
religion--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,_

CHAPTER II.

_Oaths--Christians are not to take civil oaths--Reasons of the Quakers
for their disuse of them,_

CHAPTER III.

SECT. I. _War--Unlawful for Christians to fight--Scriptural passages in
support of this tenet--Answers to these and replies,_

SECT. II. _These passages supported by the opinions and practice of the
early Christians,_

SECT. III. _Objection to the motive assigned for this practice--Reply to
this objection--Motive confirmed,_

SECT. IV. _Conduct of the early Christians further examined--While
Christianity continued pure, they held it unlawful to fight--As it
became less pure, their scruples against it declined--As it became
corrupt, they ceased,_

SECT. V. _Reflections of the author on the foregoing subject--Supposed
conversation with a superior being in another region--New arguments from
thence,_

SECT.