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Excerpt from The Reason Given by an Early Constitution Friend for His Scriptural View of Worship and Discipline
Sewel, in his History of the People called Quakers, says, That name was given them in scorn but the name whereby they call one another is that of Friends. And herein they have the example of primitive Christians, as may be seen Acts xxvii. 3, where it is said that Julius the centurion courteously entreated Paul, ' and gave him liberty to go unto the Friends (for so the Greek hath it) to refresh himself; and 3 Epist. John 14 we read' 'the Friends salute thee and Greet the Friends by name.' [vol 2, p. 589, 5th ed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
