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AN APOLOGY

FOR THE

TRUE CHRISTIAN DIVINITY:

BEING

AN EXPLANATION AND VINDICATION

OF THE

PRINCIPLES AND DOCTRINES

OF THE PEOPLE CALLED

QUAKERS.

WRITTEN IN LATIN AND ENGLISH

BY ROBERT BARCLAY,

AND SINCE TRANSLATED INTO HIGH DUTCH, LOW DUTCH, FRENCH, AND
SPANISH, FOR THE INFORMATION OF STRANGERS.

THE FIRST STEREOTYPE EDITION, FROM THE EIGHTH
LONDON EDITION.

NEW-YORK:

PRINTED BY SAMUEL WOOD AND SONS,

NO. 261, PEARL-STREET,

FOR THE TRUSTEES OF OBADIAH BROWN'S BENEVOLENT FUND.

1826.

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CHARLES II.

KING OF GREAT BRITAIN,

AND

THE DOMINIONS THEREUNTO BELONGING:

ROBERT BARCLAY,

A servant of Jesus Christ, called of God to the Dispensation of the Gospel. now again revealed, and, after a long and dark night of Apostacy, commanded to be preached to all nations, wisheth health and sal

vation.

As the condition of kings and princes placeth them in a station more obvious to the view and observation of the world, than that of other men, of whom, as Cicero observes, neither any word or action can be obscure; so are those kings, during whose appearance upon the stage of this world it pleaseth the GREAT KING of kings singularly to make known unto men the wonderful steps of his unsearchable providence, more signally observed, and their lives and actions more diligently remarked, and inquired into by posterity; especially if those things be such as not only relate to the outward transactions of this world, but also are signalized by the manifestation or revelation of the knowledge of God in matters spirit

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