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The Recorder; Being a Collection of Tracts and Disquisitions, Chiefly Relative to the Modern State and Principles of the People Called Quakers
The Recorder Being a Collection of Tracts and Disquisitions Chiefly Relative to the Modern State and Principles of the People Called Quakers Author:William Matthews General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1802 Original Publisher: R. Cruttwell Description: Much of the material in vol. I relates to the controversy concerning the ministry of Hannah Barnard. Subjects: Society of Friends Religion / Christianity / Quaker Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a b... more »lack and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: POSTSCRIPT. By W. M. AS the foregoing sheets were not hastily penned, nor hastily sent to the press, so neither was their publication afterwards resolved on without deliberation. I wished, in a matter which so essentially concerns a whole society, to consider and weigh. every thing which might possibly be urged as an objection against the expediency of publishing this pamphlet; but when I adverted to my governing motive in writing, and re-considered the great importance of a tree enquiry, and honest discharge of apparent duty, my motive for publication grew stronger and stronger. It however occurred to me, on a critical review of what had been printed, that although 1 could see no reason for retracting any thing, or making any apology for my plain dealing, yet that some of my readers might possibly enquire, what particular improprieties of society-conduct I wished to have considered as the chief cause of my general reasoning in favour of Christian Liberty. Th i s determined me to add a few pages of a more particular tendency ; and though I might enlarge on sundry topics, I rather choose to confine myself in what is to follow, to the much-agitated subject, and the most fruitful of dispord, Tithes, in doing this, it is not my intention to take a decisive part in a question, about which so many sensible, pious, and respectable members of our community ar...« less