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disowned them ,- and unfortunately sueh precisely has been the conduct of the ? Friends towards Hannah Barnard * y and others : a resemblance this to the Horn-ish church , which vindicates me in calling out ' No Popery , Friemls . "
It A Jr * roles rant will ui-ke the trouble of consulting , Mo&heini ' n Kcclesiasticaj Hist . vol . ii 1 p . 267 , he will there find th ^ t the . inquisition was founded for the express purpose of finding out heresy and reportingtfa . u heretic , and its -usual punishment was excommunication .
A Protestant proceeds to state that the Friends have no personal enmity against Hannah Barnard , having offered to pay her expenses and provide her with suitable accommodations on her return to America , and though he does not actually assert , yet by artful
insinuations he would impose on his readers a notion that II . B . and others have suffered nothing from being disowned . Mr . Claikson , the patronised historian of the Friends , lias n short chapter entitled , " Disowning no Slight Punishment ; " in which he in *
iorms us of the support and pri , vileges of which the disowned are deprived . Is it then no persecution to punish persons for difference of sentiment ? The society of Friends have , I hope , as little inclination as power to carry the consequences of their disownment
iarther than this . Nor can it be admitted that persecution is confined to the tortures of an inquisition , or the fines , imprisonments or confiscations of an hierarchial church , AIT I contend for , and all I have asserted stands yet wncontradicted by A Protestant ' s /
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. letter ,- nor can he dejhy' that Friends have arraigned , fco-ndeniiP-; ed and -inflicted punishment , by disowning persons for difference or" sentiment , or supposed heresy ; u crime which an eminent- * person
' observes is created by those who punish it ; and that in this proceeding they have recognized tjie foundation principles of nob ~> ftly papal but ail oiher hierarchies . The adoption of this papal
principle with which I have charged the Friends is however a novel mode of proceeding with them . Their discipline was intended to prevent and restrain immoral practices , and in this they may be justified by scripture and reason . I am
confirmed in this opinion by read - ing the controversial writings of that eminent servant of God , Win . Penn , whose faith seems to approach much nearer to that of
II . B . than to the present faith , of the Quakers council , who sat in judgment on her . IIi 3 book entitled the " Sandy Foundation Shaken , " in which the doctrines of the Trinity , atonement , and
justification by imputed righteousness are refuted , was not considered by his contemporaries as an occasion for his disownment ; a proof that the modern Quakers have departed froin . their former simplicity and are partaking of the errors " of a worldlv church .
How lamentable is the case when those who have asserted the right of private judgment and resisted the threats of the potentates of this world unto imprisonment and death , should resign the liberty of thinking for themselves , to a council of their own creation !
* N . B . If the reader wiehes to enquire into the proceedings of the Friends respecting H . B . he will find them in the Recorder , two small octavo volumes , published Py Wm . Matthews , Bath , and sold by David Eaton , 187 , High Holborn ; or » n the Appeal and Sequel by Verax , Johnson , London .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1808, page 481, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2396/page/25/
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