A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 by Thomas Clarkson
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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,_ |
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