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Excerpt from A Review and Refutation of Some of the Opprobrious Charges Against the Society of Friends, as Exhibited in a Pamphlet Called a Declaration, Published by Order of the Yearly Meeting of Orthodox Friends (So Called) Which Was Held in Philadelphia in the Year
IT has been remarked by a late writer, that the rise of the peo ple called Quakers in the seventeenth century, formed an epoch both in ecclesiastical and civil history. It is indeed true, that the doctrines they preached, andthe testimonies they firmly and fearlessly bore, in despite both Of the sword Of the civil powers and the thunders of professedly religious establishments, went to burst the fetters Of the human mind, and to free it from the tyranny of the one, and the darkness Of the other.
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