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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
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BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A.
AUTHOR OF SEVERAL ESSAYS ON THE SLAVE TRADE.
VOL. III.
CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME.
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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. VI. _Subject further considered--Erroneous conceptions of those
who argue in favor of the necessity of war--This necessary only where
the policy of the world is pursued--Nature of this policy--But not
necessary where men act on the policy of the Gospel,_
SECT. VII. _This doctrine confirmed by historical cases,_
SECT. VIII. _Final examination of the subject,_
CHAPTER IV.
SECT. I. _Maintenance of a Gospel ministry--Quakers hold it unlawful to
pay their own ministers, or those of any other denomination, for their
Gospel labours--Scriptural passages and historical facts relative to
this doctrine,_
SECT. II. _Additional reasons against the payment of those of another
denomination, as collected from a history of tithes,_
SECT. III. _A more particular statement of these reasons,_
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CHARACTER.
CHAPTER I.
_Character of the Quakers--Difficulties in the proper estimation of
character--These removable in the present case,_