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The Quakers Assisting to Preserve the Lives of the Indians - 9

or Preservation of his Fellow Creatures Life, then I conclude, that the spiritual instinct, which the animal part hath a Sympathy which binds the whole Creature to act for the Safety of his Neighbour as that of himself,---if any Man, denies this at the same Time he denies God--But still the Quakers are blam’d,---I ask for what? o! sayeth the Unmasker, they have diviated from their Principles:---I ask what their Principles are? Surely not to murder their Neighbours in cool Blood:---No sayeth the Unmasker, that’s not my Meaning,---Then I ask what? they have foresook their Principles,-----Here it seemeth as though I should answer for him, and say that when my Brethren were coming down from Lancaster under Arms to kill the Indians, and endeavoured to send a Report by their Agents, that their Number was seven Times more than they realy were;---Then the Quakers join’d with the other Citizens, some in getting the Cannon to the Barraks, some few I suppose, carried Muskets, and were as active as any others in Helping to keep the Indians from being murder’d:-----Alas; is this the chief Basis on which their monstrous Mould Hill is build. why all this is exactly genuine, and agreeable to the best Saints principels on Earth, those Indians had fled to the City of Refuge they had made

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