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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 4 (No. II)

the great Creator of the Universe, an Irrepealable Law to the End of Time, for the well-being of his Creator’s; the other is instituted by (sometimes) well thinking Men, to keep their Members within the Bounds of good order: Then all those Rules, in each Religious Society, that are good, must be Consequents of this Royal Law, and have such a near Unity and Affinity with it, that they Contribute mightily to the Propogation and Promulgation of it; they are so incorporated with it, that its impossible to set them at Variance. How then can any Man be so wretchedly blind, as to suppose, that any Society of People can form Rules to bar against divine Justice? well, that’s what this Unmasker asserteth, when he sayeth; the Quakers forsook their Principles in helping to save the Lives of their Neighbours: Then, I say, agreeable to the Import of his Arguments, or as he would fain have it, and if they had stood Neuter, according to his faint Opinion of their Principles, they would not only have bar’d against this Divine Law, but would have bid open Defiance to it, &c. However I shall now undertake to shew the Reader, wherein this Writer has cleared the Quakers from all the heavy Charges, he himself has thrown upon them; i.e. He seemingly Evidenceth against them in a Chain of Satyrical invectives, without Instancing one single Fact: Nay, he proves no one Thing against them, wherein a standard by, can say, ill they have done; therefore I say, the whole Charge retorts upon himself, and he must unavoidably bear it: There is none else to share with him. For Instance, if a Man seemingly Charges his Neighbour, in a Court of Justice, with a Breach of

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