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

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