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g orrect , the difference may be easily accounted for . The laws of the organization are unequal . They are not the same for the native and the stranger , or the proselyte at the gate . The
majority of the heterogeneous mass , more I believe than a thousand to one , brought under organization , are Quakers by inheritance . They are instructed to consider
themselves as members of a family ( less than the family of mankind !) like a cast of the Hindoos , or like the Hebrews , however dispersed among the Gentiles , They have not been called on to submit
themselves to any catechism , to make any profession of faith whatever , and their secret notions on religious subjects , while they submit to silence and to outward
iorms , are as diverse as all the subjects of the polemicks ol Christianity . In the consciousness of heterodoxy and want of strictness of conduct an immense majority of these never make objection to the
reception of applicants into their organization , never meddle with all the other transactions of the church . It is in re , an oligarchy or aristocracy which governs in their Israel . A sanctimonious
aristocracy is the most desperate of all tyrannies . It ever ^ in its persecutions , thinks it does God service ; whether , exercising the auto da Je 9 in consuming with the torch the living body of the reprobate ; or , in breaking bis
heart by shutting him out horn all the solace which he pants to find in the congregation of the faithful , the visible church . The epistle of this year says , ' The judgments of the Lord have indeed been in the earth : and
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many have learned righteousness /' Indeed ? Is the pontiff , —about to re-establish the order of Jesuits , — are all his followers ai d supporters -of the " many" who u have learned righteousness V Are King
Ferdinand , with his Inquisition , and Lord Castlereagh , with his consent to the multiplication of subjects for the discipline of the whip and chain in the West In * dies , of the happy number ? ** We of this island have cause
to be doubly thankful . " Why so ? a we have been preserved , " &c . then how can we have learned righteousness ? or , ought other nations to be trebly , quadruply thankful , instead of doubly ? * In what way shall we evince our sense of tfeese unmerited
favours ? " " manifest our grateful feelings / ' " by endeavouring th rough the influence of redeeming love and power , to live more and more in the spirit of the gospel , and thus to become examples , "
&c . It is not necessary to evince or manifest , &c . —commune with thy own heart and be still : —besides , " He sees with equal eye , as God of a ]] , f A hero perish and a sparrow fall . "
c Great indeed are the benefits of a regular attendance of our religious meetings , and of waiting upon God , " I suspect , on the contrary , that little indeed , or rather none , or less than none € i are the benefits
of a regular attendance of our religious meetings , " without iL waiting , " &c . " If we become thus sensible we shalJ be earnest that
all the branches of our families may partake with us . " The uc , then , and the us , whether the Yearly Meeting addressing , or the Quarterly and Monthlj
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Dr Walker on the Quakers . 535
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/11/
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