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The Address of the People Called Quakers - 11

having the Testimony of our Consciences to recur to for our Innocence. We hope thro’ Divine Assistance we shall be enabled to bear Reproaches; and by the Uprightness of our Conduct shew forth to the World that we live in Fear of God, and pay the just Returns of dutiful Submission to the King for the Continuance of his Paternal Tenderness towards us; and that we are, as we have ever been, real Friends to the Government, and steadily desirous of acting agreeable to our Stations as Members of civil Society.

Signed on Behalf and by Order of a Committee, appointed to represent our Religious Society in Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, at a Meeting held in Philadelphia, the 25th of the Second Month, 1764.

SAMUEL EMLEN, jun. Clerk.

FINIS.

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