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      them more perspicuous , especially if expressed more at large . Yet this letter will come under tlie examination of persons whose penetration is so great , that I should be trifling with

      their time , were 1 further to develope niy thoughts on this subject . Such as they are , I pray you to send me your opinion of them , and the judgnierit of those gentlemen , that , thus informed , 1 may , for my own satis-

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      Latvfulness of Defensive War amongst Christians * [ The following paper has been sent to us by the -writer , Mr . Wm . Christie , of Philadelphia , the well-known advocate of the Divine Unity in Scotland ,

      nearly torty years ago , of whom we gave ah ** Account , ' Vol . VL pp . 129 - ^~ 1 S 8 . The paper is taken from a Philadelphia Journal , entitled " The Democratic Press . " It is onlv brie of

      a series of essays , but it comprises the substance of the interesting inquiry , * ' Whether defensive war be just and lawful under the gospel dispensation ? " Ed . ] —— As for me

      I can and will be free : Like a strong mountaiu , or some stately tree , My soul grows firm upright ) And . as I stjirid and as I

      go-It keeps my body so $ No , -I can never part with my creation—¦ ri ght . tet siftres and asses stoop and bow , I cannot make this iron knee

      Bend to a meaner pow ' r than that which formed it free . Watts . ^ N treating of the'litwfol ness of de-JL fensive ' -wary it would be scarcely

      pardonable to omit msehtiotnng a pretty nutrterous and respectable class of opponents , tiatnel y * the good people called Quakers in general , aftd their excellent -atid distinguished champion , Barclay , in particular .

      Robert Barclay , of Ury , ih Scotland , a laftded fcatate not a great distance from the--f » l&cte' * 6 f tny Nativity , was a genticmun db&fehfttod from an antieiit fttmily , a nta « of oputent ibrttih ^ liberally ed ucated , fc pft * fti * rid tfftftol&iy « tot *> iij y >* # tokaift * ed wftfa ttie

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      faction , examine the arguments aneiv , and give them additional force , ( which my ill health and want of leisure permit me not to do at preserit , ) or eltse abandon them altogether as incapable of any use . I amj Sir , Your very humble and very obedient Servant J . LOCKE .

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      classical writers , but conversant in the writings of the Christian fathers in Greek and Latin , and in those erf the most eminent modern divines , Catholic and Protestant . I cannot sufficiently admire and applaud Barclay ' s religious integrity in renouncing

      his fashionable connexions in higfc life , and attaching himself to a despised and execrated sect , among \ vhich he could then only find one associate approaching to himself , viz . William Penn , afterwards founder tyf Pennsylvania . About the time Barclay joined the Quakers and became

      their apologist , the jails of England were Cull of these innocent and deserving men , and they were opposed and harshly spoken of not only by the divines of the Church of England , but by Dissenters of different denominations , and I am sorry to add , not excepting the Socinians .

      Bobert Barclay was no Tory ; though he would * not have recourse to what he calls " carnal weapons " ' to dfefend the rights of man either civil or religious , yet he was fully sensible of the imttiense value of these

      rights , and in connexion with his brethren , established the most perfect liberty and equality . Witli what ittagnanimity does he address that profligate Prince Charles the SecoiuJ , femd censWre the maxims of his

      arbitrary government m general , and his oppressive violence towards the uttoffertding Quakers in particular ? Methinks , h cohternplate the Prophet Elijah rebuking Aljab , Buttotrome

      to the point , were the el ? iitns of Robert Baf day , William Perm , ^ n < l tfreir br ^ thiien , to divine , supernatural il | uminattbn ^ j 6 at ^ anfl ^ tel ^ fotnrdetl , or # We they tittdtr th ^ povwr t > f a wfl u-

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      JLdwJklness of Defensive War amongst ' CJirisiicins . 14 &

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1819, page 149, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1770/page/13/