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of suggesting to you ^ if you are not aware of a separate edition being m contemplation , that it would greatly add to the utility of his Memoirs , if they could be periodically inserted Jby nortions in the Monthly Repository . 1 F . T . MAXON .
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gression , to such as are in the rudiments df the Christian rac e * who have not yet attained a commission in the pacific kingdom of the Messiah : but as our worthy predecessor observes , " For such as Christ has brought hither , it is not lawful to defend
themselves by arms , but they ought over all to trust to the Lord ? ' It cannot be supposed the Society of Friends have so totally mistaken the meaning of their great Apologist / and thus they have , both by example aiid precept , inculcated the unlawfulness of war
under theChristian dispensation , whether undertaken from principles of aggression or of defence . SAMUEL FENNELL .
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Sir " , Clapton , June 26 , 1819 , " ^ t 7 OUR Correspondent ' s remarks , JL [ p . 303 , ] probably from accident in his transcribing them , are , notwithstanding your editorial labour , still iu a great measure unintelligible . The paragraph quoted [ p . 150 ] from
Barclay , contains the conclusion of Prop . xv . Sect , xv . as I find it in the Apology , Ed . 8 , pp . 568 , 569 . It is also an exact translation of the Latin , as printed in the first . edition of the Apologia , published at Amsterdam , 1676 .
As to the paragraph given p . 303 , passing from Christian , at line 17 from the beginning , to religion , at line 4 from the * bottoui , we haye verbatim , the paragraph p . 150 . What is to be understood by the intervening passage I cannot cofrippehend .
Some former possessor of my copy of the Apologia , and probably , from the colour of the writing , a very early one , has given on the blatik leaves at the end , " A Summary of the Quakers' Opinions . " Among the heads , which " are all thought to be
unlawful / ' he includes , •* All war and violent resistance whatsoever j though they seem to allow , that such Christian kings , princes and magistrates as are still in an imperfect state , as to the true profession and life of Christianity , may be permitted to wage war upon just grounds . "
The American , Citizen seems to have , not a little , overrated his obligations to Friend Robert ( p . 150 ) for his supposed concession . That Citizen , as you describe hiirt , ( p . 149 ? ) I should not have expected to find among
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Barclay ' s Judgment on Defensive War . —Oh Defensive War . 409
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Mr * FennelVs Second Letter ; for an explanation of which , see pp . 303 , 400 . " . DIALLING accidentally upon a
Vy friend , he put into my hand the Monthly Repository for March , containing an article on the Lawfulness ofDefensive War amongst Christians , observing that Barclay thought it was lawful , an opinion I was by no means inclined to admit . Let me state what
William Christie is pleased to call the candid concession of the venerable apologist , extracted from his celebrated work on Christian Divinity . [ To avoid printing the quotation
from Barclay a third time , in the same volume , we beg leave to refer to our page 150 , col . 1 , where Mr . Christie gave the passage verbatim , as it is here quoted by Mr . Fenuell .
Ed . ] Now T appeal to public candour whether the writer has not either totally misunderstood or misrepresented this subject ? As far as I am capable of understanding Robert
Barclay , there is a state of Christian perfection , or state of grace in the soul ; and that though we may be Christians in name , and are relatively so according as we approach our great exemplar and perfect pattern , yet no man who has attained to true holiness
of heart , can engage in war . I eounot believe that the advocates of defensive war have attained to that state of self-denial and entire confidence in God , which Barclay describes to be the most perfect part of the Christ iau religion , and of which Christ and his
apostles were such eminent examples . It would not be difficult I think to shew , that though we have many excellent magistrates , whose discharge of their high judicial offices do fdoesj them honour , yet they may not be in the
perfection of the Christian religion ; and may be in that state of mixture , which is far from fitting them for this form of Christianity , and , therefore , the alleged lawfulness of defending themselves in cases of ag-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1819, page 409, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1774/page/9/
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