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< jui 5 r 6 ncy of servile language indicates political degeneracy ; r Fhe freedom of & People ma y be not very in arc uratel y ? estimated by their plainness of speech . America has less complimentary phra *
seology than England ; and England less than France . The simplicity of the Quaker dialect was considered by ; their enlightened ? raembers as a pro * test- against the increasing servility of the age , and an assertion of the natural equality of m an .
Their writes claim for the sect in general the--credit of a degree of firmness and consistency , not shewn by other Dissenters This claim is * ad * - vaneed in the following passage , by
Elwood , and it is * fully- confirmed ? by Neale , who wa& by * means disposed to do more than justice to the Qua * kers , but who puts much . more strongly the charge of- temporising against other denominations .
** They having no reftige , but God alone , to fly unto , could not dodge and shift to avoid- the suffering *; as others of othen denominations could- * and in their worldly wisdomand
-policy did ; altering' their meetings * with respect both to place and tifcne , and forbearing to meet when forbidden ^ or kept out of thei r meetinghouses So that of the several sorts
of Dissenters , the Quakers only held up a public testimony , as a standard or ensign of religion * by keeping- their meeting' duly and folly , at the accustomed tinier and plaues , ( so Iftng as they were suffered to enjoy the use
of their meetings-houses : ) and when they were $ iu \ t \ upy and Friendfe kept out of them by force , they assembled in 1 he street , as near to -their meetinghouses as th « y could . Thi » bold * and trulJy Christian- behaviour hi- the- Q % iakeva disturbed , and not a little
disposed * the persecutors ; who , fretting * , complained * thattheatubborn Quakers beak © their strength- ; # nd bore off t he * blow from those other Bissentiers , whom a& they most ? feared , so they principally aimed at . © n the * other band , the more ingenious- amongst otlier Dissenters , of each
dfenominationv sensible of the e&sethejr enjoyed by » our bold * aiid steady suflKferiugj ( which abated ^ the heafe of 1 &e < f » erse » eaters ' , »« ri bliinted the edge of the ; j ^ wor * before it < nme to tl » ew , j franklya ^ tnowlfedge ^ t the ^ benefit n ^ e ^ ei ^ dl y ^^ Hfeg - u * tft ^ biiiVrftrk m&P fcept * i > fif
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the force of the stroke flroni them , hn& praying that vv ^ e might be preservac ^ and' enabled to break the strength of the enemy : nor would some of- then * forbear ( those especiallyi who w ^ ffi
called Baptists ) to . express their kind and : favourable opinion of us , andiof the principles we professed ; which emboldened us to go through thab which but to hear of was ^ terror to them . "
This , passive fortitude ; thisc opposition of moral principle to physical forc e * and ; of the power of endurance to that of infliction , is a more difficult ? and useful ^ and ought to be a nwrre illustrious heroism than that ' of active conflict . It has ; commonly the ruc *» cess it so well merits ; The first goo * .
Vief 4 s made by , George Eox * antt said to * have been the men employed 1 to scourge him in prison ; and his followers have obtained larger conces * sions from the legislature tfaan those who hadj , and might again have appealed : to the sw . ord .
As if the infamy of Charfes would not hawe been complete by the viola * tion of his general , pitomiseof a Tolera ^ tion in the treatment of this unoffend ^ ing Sect ; in their imprisonments ^ in confiscations ) banishment and tnuiv cler , lingeiung and barbarous murder
by bad usage in loathsome jaiK he gave it a . blacker dye ^ by a particular promise to one of th « ir leaders , ( R ; Hiiteberthorn , ) that none- o £ tliem shoulcV suffer for * their opinions or religion ; ' * you have the word : off a king 1 for W said the royal ' hypocrite * They soon found its . worth .
T ? he « Quakers were more ^ closely united among themselves than other denominations- , they adhered ^ mon& steadily ^ to eac h other in affliction , and dispensed assistance ofrevery kiiwik < vi ^ ith greaten lifceraJit ^ i W hen ' jh e-Cbiwentujle Act passed ^ rnany ^ 06 tjlie Presbyter » ian- laity d ^ esertedt theit > i » i *~ nistjens . ( Dtiier denominations stftnd '
chai > g > ed' with negltect of * wortfiy ati | r celebrated sufibrers . The * l ? 4 tpR i ^ i >« wellf demoustnated ) fcliab in so callitig thetwselvG 8 they mad& no vaiit ' or uti ^ wai ) rantaJble assumptionv When Fox ? was in > pnison , during tbe g » overmwent » o £ ( ivoiwweh , « on&of hm ft \ en < &G& ' femd himself tx > the h ^ ot ^ c ^ r to . H ^ iu prison > body . for body , in hi » steady tow ^ tfehprop ^ a ^ € ^ u ^ lV e ^ Lw ^ * ^ he could ttbt gratrtr itj b « irtg contrary
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1818, page 173, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2474/page/21/
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