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. New-York: PUBLISHED BY SAMUEL STANSBURY, NO. 111 WATER-STREET, 1806. GEORGE FORMAN, PRINTER DIVINITY SCHOOL LIBRARY HARVARD UNIVERSIT CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. Civil government-Governors have no right to interfere in matters of reli Oaths-Christians are not to take civil oaths-Reasons of the Quakers for CHAPTER III. 8 SECT. 1. War-Unlawful for Christians to fight-Scriptural passages in 31 SECT. II. Objection to the motive assigned for this practice-Reply to this 41 SECT. IV. Conduct of the early Christians farther examined-While Chris- tianity continued pure, they held it unlawful to fight-As it became less pure, their scruples against it declined-As it became corrupt, they SECT. V. Reflections of the author on the foregoing subject-Supposed con- versation with a superior being in another region-New arguments 62 |