A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 3 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends

_Civil government--First tenet is, that governors have no right to interfere with the governed on the subject of Religion--and that if they interfere, and insist upon things whi...

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...

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 passage...

_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 a...