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    the people of every land , will cease to be obscured by the clouds of Btipetfsthi 6 n , to be violated by persecution . Theophilanthropy , or pure Quakerism , which must always be of Panadelphic character , will then cover the earth as the

    waters cover the place of the sea . The professors of the belief , that ihe word of God is an inward light , do , in referring their doetrines to the Bible , as an authority * virtually relinquish their

    peculiar dogma ; but there are many of this profession , both insulated and in society , who do . not recognise any writings of whatever language , to be their guide ,, in spiritual concerns .

    Would it not be well that these were associated together ? Let me ask these , iny brethren , through thy periodical publication , whereever it may reach them ; whether it may not be well for them to

    assemble together , in the various places of their habitation , or of their pilgrimage ; whether it may not be good to confer with each other ; to correspond with absent or distant brethren ; whether it

    ma > y not be well suited to the present state of society at large , united by common interests , while it is variously divided by different objects , that they form associations , in the different places , where their lot may be cast . Associations so formed ,

    however small , in their beginnings , may , perhaps , in time , become extended , become productive of good in society at large . Educated myself in the strictest

    sect of the Pharisees , the little flock of the followers ( d fa lettrt ) of the primitive Christians , whose super , stitions , as they appear to me , I have had to relinquish , for a pro-

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    fession more simple , and mow sublime , I have been , from time to time , considerably affected with observing the deplorable effects arising from the unnatural union

    of church and state , in that sect which , more than any other , becomes at once , by association , a sort of microcosm . I propose , if thou give me the opportunity , to attempt to exhibit some of the grievous declensions of the

    associations of the Friends , whereby the bright prospects of those noble enthusiasts , who , in the gathering together of our predecessors , in the century before the last , endured persecution , even unto death , seem to have failed to be realised ;

    whereby their establishment , the finest the world ever yet saw , instead of diffusing evangelical truth , and extending itself throughout the world , continues to be a

    diminutive sect ; its polity and its practices unknown to its surrounding neighbours . But firsf , let me offer a sketch , which two or three of us , in this

    metropolis , have thought might be eligible for adoption , by those Friends who cannot acknowledge some of the professed tenets of the organized part of their sect . QUAKERISM PANADELFHIAK .

    To a human creature , the contemplation of the Supreme Being , the Self-existent , must be serious , must produce reverential awe . Under the sense of the Divine presence , it is not degrading to feel all self-sufficiency to die within us , to tremble before the Lprd .

    The fear of the Lord must deliver from the dread of man ; must make us regard all human creatures , our fellow partakers of mortality , as our brethren . In professing to believe that

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    810 Mr . tValkcr on a Sbcie ty of Panadelphian Quakert .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/22/