POSTSCRIPT.
VVHere do ye ever read, that the Jews, when they had Conquered any Nation or Kingdom, did by the Law Force them to the Jewish Religion, or to be Circumcised? Or that they Cast them into Prison, if they would not joyn with them in their Divine Service? Though Christ said, They Compassed Sea and Land to make Proselytes; yet where do ye read, they made them by Force, or they became Proselytes to save their Goods, or keep themselves out of Prison? And ye read in Genesis, that Abraham and Isaac lived in Gera in King Abimelech's Country; yet ye do not read that the King forced them to his Religion; but they had their Liberty to Serve and Worship God. And also in Genesis, when Abraham went down into E∣gypt, and Jacob and his Family after him, ye do not read, that King Pharaoh forced either Abraham or Iacob and his Family to his Religion, while they lived there. And the Turks when they Conquer any Nation or People, or take Captives, we do not hear that they force them to their Religion: For our Friends (the People called Quakers) in Algier, that are taken Captives by the Turks, have their Liberty peaceably to Meet together, to Serve and Worship God there without Disturbance. And therefore they that bear that Great and Worthy Name of Christians, from Christ Jesus, and profess the Holy Scriptures of Truth, and the Royal Law of God, which is To do unto others, as they would have them do unto them, should shew forth the Nobility of True Christianity, and the Nature of the Lamb Christ Jesus, which is far above all Turks and Heathens.
G. F.
Blessed are the Merciful, for they shall obtain Mercy.
Christ saith, Learn what that meaneth, I will have Mercy, and not Sacrifice.