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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 3 (No. II)

for Man to be exempt from; he must either submit in mercy, or in Judgment; I say, this Law is the most extensive and the most binding, for the good of Individuals, in civil Society, of any Law that was ever Publish’d on Earth; i.e. Whosoever shedeth Man’s blood, by Man his blood shall be shed: If a Stranger or Sojourner live with thee, thou shalt love him as thy self. What can be more binding? Nay the Almighty has been so particularly carefull of his Creatures, that he has stampt the very Image of his Law in the Heart of every Man, and there it remains (until Men give themselves up to utter Distruction) that a Man cannot see his Neighbour in Danger of loosing that Life, which GOD hath decreed shall End in the Course of Nature, without making him all the help in his Power; no more than he can take it from him: But if an Omision of that sort should ever happen, what can be more convincing to the World, than that Person is, a party concern’d in the murder, or at least consents to that horrid Crime, which brings him in equally guilty: These are undeniable Facts, that and now I come to consider, the several Denominations of People, respecting worship, as they have each of them Rules in their Society, suiting their Inclinations to keep Matters in a good Decorum among their own Members, which is commendable: Yet when this universal law calls for immediate submission; it’s impossible the Society, Rules can in any sort interfear, the one is an act in civil Society, the other only rules in the Religious, the one is Instituted by Christians, the other has the Prevalance over both Christians and Heathens, throughout the World. The one is instituted by

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