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The Quakers . 415
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Mankind must be independent , because uncontrolable in the exercise of powers once bestowed upon thpm —• And fefaeie can be no possibility of putting an end to the spread and continuance of eril , unless he annihilate them by irresistible force .
His creatures , though undoubted * ly they are but instruments in executing his purposes , are in that way of training , which unerring wisdom dictates , and to which infinite power will gire effect ^ for their moral improvement and everlasting happiness—And in due time there shall be an end to the prerealence of sin and misery , while -these them ** selves , shall appear to have been working together for good .
No middle scheme can be devised . And , when both sides of the alternative have been duly considered and weighed , let the serious and pious mind determine which part of it is most honour * able to God and most comfortable to man .
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THE aUAKER ^ . To the Editor of the Monthly Repository . Sir , I have been reading lately with great pleasure , | C Clarkson ' s Portraiture of Quakerism , " and though I am mot sufficiently acquainted with the sect of the Quakers to form an idea of its likeness to the original , I confess I think it a beautiful picture . But when I read the chapter on war , &c . I wished
to have a Quaker by me to explain why they refuse to pay for a substitute if drawn in the militia ^ and yet pay , which I am informed they do , a tax avowedly styled a war
tajr 9 — -namely , the tax on income ! As the Quakers are , we are now told , an informed / reading people , it is probable some of them may see this , and I wilJ thank any one of them if he will , through the medium of your Magazine , explain this seeming inconsistency . I am Sir , yours , Blackheath * P « M ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 415, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/19/
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