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    avowedly styled a war taxy namely , the tax on income / ' I will endeavour briefly to explain this seeming inconsistency , as it is termed by P . M .

    The Quakers or rather Friends , as being the name by which they call themselves , have always believed it to be their duty to f * render unto Cesar the things that are Cesar ' s , ' by paying all taxes levied for its support by the government under which they live , considering that the governors and not the governed are re ~

    sponsible for the application of such taxes . The supposed dif- > ficulty occasioned by the specific avowal of the intended ap * - plication of the income tax would not be removed by a refusal to pay that tax only , since there is scarcely a single tax , dutv , or custom that was not originally exacted virtually , if not specifically , for the same object , neither can we suppose that tha taxes paid to the corrupt and warlike government of Rome were less exceptionable in their appropriation , the payment of which

    > vas nevertheless authorized and enjoined by Christ and his apostles . See Matt . xvii . 24 to 27 . xxii . 21 . Rom , xiii . 6 , 7 , The Friends' objection to pay for a substitue in the militia jests upon the same ground as their refusal to be hired by government to kill their fellow men ; for as in this latter cast * they would by their own personal act , violate their principle : against war of every kind ,, so they consider it an equal violation .

    of their principle to hire another man to kill and destroy in their stead . In both these instances the act being all our own , by which we immediately promote and sanction cc the sanguinary progress of human destruction that is going on in the worldJ *

    the responsibility is ourNs also j whereas in the former case vvq conscientiously submit to the ordinance of our rulers who are placed over us for the salutary purposes of promoting the good and harmony of civil society . If the means they employ be not always such as we can approve ., still the object itself is good , ( Rom , xiii . 1 to 4 . ) and the responsibility rests with them . J . Bf

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    THE CLERGYMAN ' S ANSWER TO J . M . LETTER II . To the Editor of the Monthly '^" Repos ito ry * Sir , I now follow your correspondent J . M . " into the New

    Testament . The first tc ^ xt , which he censures me for citing in proof of tha divinity of Christ , is ^ i Tim , iii . 16 * Here he asserts , that Sir

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    The Clergyman ' s Answer to J . M . $ 21

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 2, 1807, page 521, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2385/page/13/