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,_