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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 14

gious People in the Manner he hath the Quakers, but this may be only his Mask, for I think it’s evident by the Scope of his writing, that he hates his King, his Governor and even his Country too, under the present Constitution, as ill as he hates the Quakers:---And if Oppurtunity serv’d his Inclination would unmask himself, with as much zeal as he has the Quakers, with Bitterness of Mind: I have never been told by any moderate Man, be of what Society he might, that the Quakers have ever been a troublesome restless People under any Government, although I believe they have suffered the most of any religious Society now in the World, and that for Conscience sake only; how zealously steady were they at the Time that King Charles the First and Oliver, when in the Hight of all the Quarrell;-Did the Quakers ever riot, Mutiny or plot against the Government. No but bore every Resolution with Meekness and Fortitude; in the Times of their Persecutions, when their Meetings were broken up by Officers, themselves thrown into nasty Dungeons, others suffered a Confiscation of their whole Estate, some died in Prison: in short every way afflicted, that Malice could think of, and the chief Instigators of this were Men as like our Unmasker, as a Cock is like a Dunghill Fowle, and after all those Persecutions, Sufferings and Trials, these peaceable People have undergone;

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