An apology for the true Christian divinity, being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers

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UNIVERSIT O CALIFORNIA A LOS ANGELES A n

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A POLOGY

EXPLANATION AND VINDICATION

QUAE E ES.

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THE DOMINION THEREUNT BE LONGING:

A the conditiori faings and prince piat them in a station more obvio usto tho te and o servation of the orld than that os other men, os, hom, a Cicero otiServes. Qither ny Ord O aetion an e bScure so are those kings durin WhOSe PDea rance Pon the Stage of this orti it plo eth the GREAT is os inges singulari t malle nown uni men the wondei sulsi eps f his risearchatile Providen ce, Ore signati observe l. in thes lives uni actions more diligenti rem ked, and en qui rei into by posteri ; Spec- inlinis hos illings L sue his nolint relate to the ut ard transactions os ibis orid. ut also a re signati Zed by the mani seStation or revelation of the knowledge of God in alter Spiritual and religio his These are the thingsthai rorid rei the livos o Cyrus Augustu Caesar, and Constant in the reatin formo times. n. Os Charies the tith, and Some ther modern princes in theSecias u PR. S COIaside rutile. Dui amori uti the trans altions hicli it hath plo assed Codrio permit for theglor os his ower, and the manifestation of his is loria und providen ce, noage urnis heth us illi thing so strange and mar vel lotis . hether illi re- Specto matrer civi or religio has res hos that have salien ut illi in the compas O th time: ho though thoum rarat se arrived ut the fiftiothbear of thy age, t et Loen a it nos o strangor hing than many ages besore Produce l. o that hethor O ORI OP thras varicius tro utiles here in thouisui est hyset en gaged hil e s arce mi ut O th in funey the muri disserent amictions here illi mei of thy circumStances a re osten unacquuin ted

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Arad although it is evident by experiende, o bo most agrue able both to

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hoth, illi Christianii and civi society so that to effectuat this thpir orkoi malico against iis the have noticen ashamod o take the help, and om menti tho labours, o sonae invidious Socinians against s. o do Herodand Pontius Pilato agro to crucis Christ. Rut our practice, known to the by good experien e toto more consistent with Christianit and civi socioty, and the eace and welsare of this istand than that os hos who thus accus iis doth suffici nil guar iis against his calum ny and we ma indeod appea to the testimon os thy conscience, sinwit nos foris in the iace of the nations. These things movet me to present the wori With atrios biit truct a colantos his cople' principies, in sonae hori theologica propositions Whieli, a cord in to the willis God pro ving successiti heyond my expectation to thesatis faetion o severat, and to the excit in in many a destro of boin farther informeli oncerning S oin every here vi spoken i and likewise mee ting illi public oppositioni Some, as Such Wil alwaysio, o longin thedo vi rules in tho hildron os disohodience I a thoreb tarther erigaged intho liberino the Lord to prosunt to the worid his apolog of the truth hold by thos people: hich, hocnus o th interest in them, and their in thee, as havin firs appea red, and osti in reaesed in these nations unde thy rille. I ako hold to presentini thoe. Thou knowest, and has experion ced thoi faithiuinos toward thoi God. thei patienco in sussoring thoiri a catilenositoward the king thei honesty. pla in nos and in togrit in thoi fait hiul warning and testimonio to theo an dii thou ili alio thysol so much timo acto read his, thou mayeStrandio consonant thei principies a re both to scripture, truth, and right re on. The simplicit os thoi boliavi our the generalit os thei condition a belugPOO men and illiterato the anno os thoi proco iure hein without thewiSdom and Olic os this orld hath ad many concludo them Ool and madmen and negleet them a notio in caputile o re ason. ut though itiet them a thoir rown thus toto est comedis the wise, the reat, and lea ined