An Essay On Civil And Religious Liberty PDF Download

Excerpt from An Essay Upon the Influence of the Teachings of Geo. Fox on Civil and Religious Liberty It needs no elaborate argument to prove that such powers claimed and exercised, would establish the clergy as a distinct class in the kingdom a class not liable to be brought into sym pathy with the people, for it exercised the full power of self perpetuation for it could admit whom it pleased into its ranks, and its ranks were open to none but such as were in full sympa thy with the leaders of class ambition. 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.