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are unfounded , except by the profession of the community of Friends as found in their books and their oral declarations ? And are not our works , are not our pulpits , are not our tongues , all so many witnesses to our credence of the Scriptures ? Are not our lives , what we do and what we do not , what we lose and what we suffer , living . evidences to our trust in Christ and his sacred promises ? Should Unitarians thus harshly judge their fellow-professors , every man ' s band would be raised against them , and justly .
We should be told , If you do judge , judge with charity , or judge not lest ye be judged , for to his own master every one standeth or falleth . The same reproof tbe Quaker merits who presumes to condemn either in ignorance or in malice . What difference can there be ? Is justice one thing as sought by the Quaker , and totally different as sought by the Unitarian ? How can it be ? Has God Almighty set any brand upon us , marking us out for insult and reprobation ? Does he deny us the sight of the blessed heavens , or the use of the air , earth , sea and water ? Has he withheld from
us mental and moral faculties , or so perverted both , that by the one we are necessarily led to error , by the other to falsehood ? Do men avoid us in society ? Are we known to be liars , extortioners , deceivers ? Wherein , then , do we differ from other men , that the same measures of justice should not be common to both ? What if we do differ in points of faith ? " Hath not a Jew eyes ? Hath apt a Jew hands , organs , ; dimensions , senses , affections , passions ? Fed with the same food , hurt y ^ it ]^ the sajai ^ weapons , subject to the same diseases , healed by the same nqieans ,, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer , as . a Christian i $ ? 1 ; -, If > yoj ^
prick us , dp we not bleed ? If you ' tickle . us ,- ' . do we not laxigh , | iU If ^ yo ^ poison us , do vve not die ? And if you wrong us , ' * we will ^ ot ^^ vfcitk Shy lock ,, " sijall we not revenge r" We will deprecate , npt revenge ; , we will pity , not , punjsh ; reserving to ourselves the right of ap , occasional sm ^ / whep weakness assumes the airs and tone of Papa l or ^ E ^ cppaJL ^ faJT libility . Jn fact , there are others we consider more toblame for this . per , se , 'cutingr spjnt than the Quakers . They do but imitate their , betters * ( The Legislature has set the fashion , and for ages laboured . to give io bigptry K ^ i | universalI sway over t ^ eenapire . No wonder everypetty sect-has been , filled , wjth illiperaljty . The < Quaker has been rather tardy in pitting , pn ; the , mantle of intolerance , and if he looks ever $ o little nar&owiy into his
vestment , he will find that it is not as he seems to have iinagineck z bran-span new garment of , tbe first fabric , but worn-put and thipwa-ofF clothei tpp » narrow in their dimensions ana too stiff in their cut to suit the taste of ? th ^ legislators of the day . Of such an antiquated garb , we hope the wojrid will soon , with a becoming spirit , grow ashamed ; and as the Quaker is reported to be approximating gradually to the fashion of this world , be , too , albeit attached no little to what is ancient in the cut and colour of his coat , may , we would hope , throw off' ere long the garments of intolerance which the powers that be have at last cast forth as an abominable thing .
Meanwhile , the Jettei ; of the Society of Friends i ^ haju ' ed on all sides as a proof of an improving spirit among that body , , Their orthodoxy previousl y to this was of rather a questionable complexion . Now . it ip fhe very pink of perfection in the eyes , of those wjip , are connoisseursin * , such matters . But for ourselves ye cannot h ^ l p , wondering that a confession of faith such as that . nowput forth by th ^ Quakers ^ ar ^ d , proh p ^ qr ! expressed in tbe very words of Scriptare ,, shbpW ta ^ satisfied the , ticklers f ' pr qreecls aivd catechisms of human fabrication * The dpcument defipes nothing , decides
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The Watchman . 649
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VOL . III . 2 Y
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1829, page 649, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2576/page/49/
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