Various Quaker Documents
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The Anarchy of the Ranters - Title And Contents
Title - Preface - Sec. 1 - Sec. 2 - Sec. 3 - Sec. 4 - Sec. 5 - Sec. 6 - Sec. 7 - Sec. 8 - Conclusion
THE ANARCHY OF THE RANTERS And other LIBERTINES,
The Hierarchy of the Romanists, and other Pretended Churches, equally Refused and Refuted, in a Two-fold Apology for the Church and People of God called in Derision QUAKERS.Wherein they are Vindicated from those that accuse them of Disorder and Confusion on the one hand, and from such as Calumniate them with Tyranny and Imposition on the other: shewing, that as the true and pure principles of the Gospel are restored by their Testimony, so is also the ancient apostolick ORDER of the church of Christ re-established among them, and setled upon its Right Basis and Foundation.
By Robert Barclay.Phil. 2.3. Let nothing be done through Strife and Vainglory; but in Lowliness of Mind let each esteem another better then themselves.
Herb. 13.7. Remember them that have the Rule over you, who spoke unto you the Word of God, whose Faith follow.
Printed in the Year, 1676.
Keyboarded by Keith F. Saylor 2018
{Page 8} THE CONTENTS
Preface
Section First, The Introduction and Method of this Treatise, page 9.
Section Second, Concerning the Ground and Cause of this Controversie, p. 12.
Section Third, Whether there be any Order or Government in the Church of Christ, p. 18.
Section Fourth, Of the Order and Government we plead for, p. 31.
Section Fifth, In what cases, and how far this Government extends, p.37.
Section Sixth, How far this Government extends in Matter Spiritual, and purely conscientious, p. 47.
Section Seventh, Concerning the Power of Decision p. 66.
Section Eighth, How this Government altogether different from the Oppressing and Persecuting Principality of the Church of Rome, and other Antichristian Assemblies, p 75.
The Conclusion p. 84.
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