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wealth , and the protectorate , he appears to have lost no credit with his party , the preshyterians . He was chosen to present their address to King Charles in 1660 , and was one of their
commissioners in l 66 l > at the Savoy conference . Nor is there any reason to doubt , that , according to Calamy , he was < c a man of great plainheartedness and sincerity . " It would not be difficult to shew
that credulity and an attachment to the marvellous were by no means peculiar to Puritans and early Nonconformists , but , on the contrary , were sanctioned by the opinions and conduct of their most determined enemies , R . G « S »
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Dr . Walker on the Quakers . Bond Court , Ang . 9 , 1814 . The Editor of the Monthly Repository having inserted [ p . 439 —441 ] the Yearly Epistle of the Friends ^ induces me to think , not
only that he may in candour receive any criticisms thereon , but also remarks on the people with whom it originates , and on those friends who may be considered in the world as implicated in it , whatever may be its statements , erroneous or correct ; while ,
however , they bear no part in its compilation , either personally or by deputy . In limine , let me offer a sort of classification of this most characteristically marked sect .
In principle they are I . Real Quakers , professing to rest only on the word , inward lrght , or spirit , equally given to every human creature . These are not at present united in any asso-
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ciation for holding meetings for worship . II . Bible Quakers , subjecting their doctrines to the compilations of the priests , successively of Je . rusalem and of the see of Rome :
writings known only to a part of the nations , tongues and languages . These are organized and enforce attendance on their meetings for
worship , under the penalty of ex , communication . Thus , they may figuratively be said to whip their members into the temple . The Quakers are
A , In outward appearance or dress , antiquated , simple ; in speech , peculiarly correct ; in conduct , peculiarly strict . B . In characteristic peculiari . ties , not distinguishable from the people of other sects .
These two orders or genera ( A . and B . ) are found in both the classes , I . of Real Quakers , and II . of Bible Quakers .
Moreover there are Real Quakers yet partial . to an outward letter ; and Bible Quakers who secretly condemn such partialities as inconsistent with the real pr inciple .
Some of the organized Quakers hesitate not to say of a sectarian brother , not of the organization , " He is no Quaker , " who , on the contrary , declares , perhaps ,
inquirers , wherever he goes , * I am a Quaker . " The unorganized Quakers are generally more modest than these . They presume not to pronounce on any man professing to be a Quaker ,
whatever may be his renunciation or retention of the outward marks of such profession . If in this comparison of the Quakers organized with those yet unassociated , the observations be
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534 Dr . Walker on the Quakers .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 534, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/10/
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