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THE

LEADING SENTIMENTS

OF THE

PEOPLE called QUAKERS

EXAMINED,

As they are stated in Mr. ROBERT BARCLAY'S APOLOGY; with an ANSWER to what Mr. PHIPPS has advanced for the Defence of them, in his OBSERVATIONS UPON AN EPISTLE TO THE AUTHOR OF A LETTER TO DR. FORMEY.

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By S. NEW TO N, of NORWICH,

Take heed, therefore, that the Light which is in thee be not Darkness. Luke xi. 35.

Try the Spirits whether they be of God.

1 John iv. 1.

I.

LONDON:

Printed by S. BURCHALL, in Alderfgate Street,
For E. and C. DILLY, in the Poultry.

M.DCC.LXXI.

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CONTENT S.

INTRODUCTION.

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WHY religious controverfy is unacceptable-Faults
of polemical writers-In what light Mr. Phipps's
performance appears to the writer of this treatife-
Should Mr. Barclay's fyftem be true, it will not be
injured by this examination of it-Some ferious people,
of other perfuafions, are acting upon principles much
like thofe of the Apologist, though they use different
terms-The advantages of liberty in this country to
every writer-Thofe controverfial books which lead
the attention of the reader to the connected fenfe of
the Scriptures, the most useful-Concerning perfonal
reflection in this controverfy-The decency and mora-

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