Produced by Carlo Traverso, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. A PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM. TAKEN FROM A VIEW OF THE EDUCATION AND DISCIPLINE, SOCIAL MANNERS, CIVIL AND POLITICAL ECONOMY, RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES AND CHARACTER, OF THE Society of Friends * * * * * BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A. AUTHOR OF SEVERAL ESSAYS ON THE SLAVE TRADE. VOL. III. CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. * * * * * GREAT TENETS. CHAPTER I. _Civil government--Governors have no right to interfere in matters of religion--Nor are the governed bound to obey, where their consciences are oppressed by doing it--but they are to be willing to suffer the penalties annexed to their disobedience--and they are on no account to resist them by force of arms,_ CHAPTER II. _Oaths--Christians are not to take civil oaths--Reasons of the Quakers for their disuse of them,_ CHAPTER III. SECT. I. _War--Unlawful for Christians to fight--Scriptural passages in support of this tenet--Answers to these and replies,_ SECT. II. _These passages supported by the opinions and practice of the early Christians,_ SECT. III. _Objection to the motive assigned for this practice--Reply to this objection--Motive confirmed,_ SECT. IV. _Conduct of the early Christians further examined--While Christianity continued pure, they held it unlawful to fight--As it became less pure, their scruples against it declined--As it became corrupt, they ceased,_ SECT. V. _Reflections of the author on the foregoing subject--Supposed conversation with a superior being in another region--New arguments from thence,_ SECT. VI. _Subject further considered--Erroneous conceptions of those who argue in favor of the necessity of war--This necessary only where the policy of the world is pursued--Nature of this policy--But not necessary where men act on the policy of the Gospel,_ SECT. VII. _This doctrine confirmed by historical cases,_ SECT. VIII. _Final examination of the subject,_ CHAPTER IV. SECT. I. _Maintenance of a Gospel ministry--Quakers hold it unlawful to pay their own ministers, or those of any other denomination, for their Gospel labours--Scriptural passages and historical facts relative to this doctrine,_ SECT. II. _Additional reasons against the payment of those of another denomination, as collected from a history of tithes,_ SECT. III. _A more particular statement of these reasons,_ * * * * * CHARACTER. CHAPTER I. _Character of the Quakers--Difficulties in the proper estimation of character--These removable in the present case,_ CHAPTER II. _Character general or particular--General is that of a moral people,_ CHAPTER III. SECT. I. _Character particular--First of the particular traits is benevolence to man in his temporal capacity,_