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Persecution of Eliu Hickg by American Quakers . 6 S 9 <
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tJaat we caftipat | iave religious unity with thy ccwJact , nor with the doctrinesthmt , art . charged with promulgating *' Signed 12 Mo . ( Dec . ) 19 , 1822 , by Gateb iPierqe ^ and nime other elders .
By the cpiicladifig observation of the ten eldfer ^ tfefe jr s 6 em to disown all the ffictHftes Elias Hicks is charged with profiQulgating , at least by their letter . Whether this disunity goes fattier , X cannot say * If hot , it
extends to his adherence to several very important Christian and scriptural doctrines . la reply to lit , however clearly such a man as Elias Hicks must have seen this , he has with commendable moderation abstained from
noticing these really heretical notions , and strictly confined himself to a denial of the truth of the greater part of their charges , and appealed to much better evidence than his accusers relied
on , in his own vindication . His reply is as follows : € t To Caleb Pierce and the other Friends . > cc Having been charged by you of unsoundness of principle and doctrine ,
founded on jreports spread among the people in an unfriendly manner , and contrary to tljeorder of our discipline , by Joseph Whitehall , as stated in the letter from you , dated the 19 th inst . ; and as these are charges not literally true , being founded on his own forced
and improper construction of my words , / deny them . And as I do not consider myself amenable to him , or aay otfier , for crimes laid to my charge , as being committed in the course of the sitting of our last Yearly Meeting ; as . not any of my fellow-members of that meeting discovered or noticed
any such things , which I presume not to be the case , as not an individual has mentioned any such thing to me , but contrary thereto , many of our valuable Friends , who had heard some
of these foul reports , promulgated by an individual of our city , [ New York , ] acknowled ge the great satisfaction they had with my services and exercises , in the course of that Meeting , and were fully convincedthat all
, those foul reports were false ; and this view is fully confirmed by a certificate granted me by the Monthly ai * d Quarterl y Meetings , of which I um a member , in which they express
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thf ^ fall unity with me j and which ; meetings ! vvere held a considerable time after our Yearly Meeting * In the course of which , Joseph Whitehall has presumed to charge me with unsoundness , contrary to the sense of tlie Yearly , Quarterly and Monthly
Meetings of which I am a member , and to who m only / hold myself amenable for ^ all conduct transacted within their limits . The other charges against me , made by Ezra Comfort , as expressed in your letter , are , in the general , incorrect , as is proved by the annexed certificate . * Moreover * as
^ * We , the undersigned , being in the city of Philadelphia when a letter was handed us , signed by ten of its citizens , Elders of the Society of Friends , and directed to Eiias Hicks ; after perusing and deliberately considering the charges therein against hhn for holding and propagating doctrines inconsistent with our
religious testimonies , and inore especially those said by Ezra Comfort and Isaiah Bell , to be held forth at a Meeting immediately succeeding the late- Southerly Quarterly Meeting , and we being members of the Southern Quarter , and present at the said Meeting , we are free to state * for the satisfaction of the first-mentioned
Friends , and all others whom it may concern , that we apprehend the charges exhibited by the two Friends named , are without substantial foundation ; and in order to give a clear view , we think it best and proper to transcribe the- said charges— -and our own understanding of 4-It £ ** - % * . inn £ C ^ f ^ lm + Tnonn /^ l > mc >^ />«• ..- */* f I * ^ m . themviz" That Jesus Christ the
, , was first man that introduced the gospel dispensation , ** &c , as stated by the ten elders , " in substance sV correct " Of the next charge , " That he ( Christ ) had no more power given him than man , " they say , " this sentence is incorrect ; " and also < c That he had nothing to do with
the healing of the soul , for that belongs to God only , " " is likewise incorrect ;" and the next sentence , " That Elisha also had the same power to ^ raise the dead , * should be transposed thus to give Elias ' s expressions , " By the same power it was that Elisha raised the deadS *
" That man being obedient to the spirit of God in him , could arrive at as great or [ a ] greater degree of righteousness than Jesus Christy they declare also < c is incorrect . " * ' That Jesus Christ thought
it not robbery to be equal with God , " with annexing the other part of the paragraph mentioned by the holy apostle , [ Phil . ii . f >—11 , ] " would be correct . As to their next charge against Elias ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1824, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2530/page/19/
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