A serious address to such of the people called Quakers, on the continent of North America, as profess scruples relative to the present government : exhibiting the ancient real testimony of that people, concerning obedience to civil authority

Author

• Isaac Gray
• Ebenezer Hazard

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Publication Date

1778

Physical Format

online resource 48 pages ; 20 cm |physical_form:online resource

Document Type

Article

Comments

relators:att:person:Gray, Isaac 1747-|relators:att:person:Hazard, Ebenezer 1744-1817|Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection, Pamphlets: Speeches B6F8

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resource_types:Text

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Printed by Styner and Cist, at the north-east corner of Race- and Second-streets,

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48 pages ; 20 cm

Page Number

10005

Description

Written before the departure of the British army from Philadelphia, 1778, by a native of Pennsylvania ; to which are added, for the information of all rational enquirers, an appendix, consisting of extracts from An essay concerning obedience to the supreme powers, and the duty of subjects in all revolutions, published in England soon after the revolution of 1688. The second edition. The "Address" attributed to Isaac Grey by Evans and Hildeburn; the "Essay" to Matthew Tindal. "Appendix, shewing the reasonableness of obedience to the supreme powers, and to the duty of subjects in all revolutions", page 30-48. "'The Friends buying up the first edition in order to suppress it, induced Mr. Ebenezer Hazard (of Philadelphia) to republish it. W.G.'" From a ms. note on the back of the title of a copy of the above.": Smith, Joseph. A descriptive catalogue of Friends' books, 1867, vol. 1, p. 71.