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Excerpt from The History of the Rise, Increase and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers, Vol. 1 of 2: Intermixed With Several Remarkable Occurrences After a labor of more than five and twenty years, this history at length appears in public view to the compiling of which I was induced from the consideration that the rise and increase of that religious society, which in this work I have given a circumstantial account of, is indeed so rare and wonderful a thing, that I think few will be met with in modern histories, which in the like respect may be compared therewith because the Quakers, so called, are become a great people, under such heavy Oppression as is herein after mentioned and that not by any human power, or making resistance, but merely by a harmless deportment, and the exercising of patience; for the bearing of arms and the resisting of the wicked by fighting, they always have counted unlawful, and contrary to the doctrine of our Savior. Thus they who had no king, prince, nor potentate to protect them and who in the beginning had not among themselves any men of renown or literature, but relying on their integrity, and trusting to God alone; have at length triumphed over the malice of their opposers, by suffering, (which rose to that degree that it was at the expense of the lives of many of them, ) under violent Oppression from high and low, and the opposition of leamed and unlearned. 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.