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A careful and free Inquiry into the Nature and Tendency of the religious Principles of the Society of Friends, commonly called Quakers, &c. By William Craig Brownlee, A. M. Minister of the Gospel. Philadelphia, 1824. 8vo.

No. 6. wars, and the evil passions that produce | family had not quite run out in his time, them. This minister of the gospel, thinks relinquished his intention, expressing withal not with us; he thinks that the Quakers his belief that "sum o' his bairns, or, aiblins, have of late been suffered to get along too sum o' his bairns' bairns, wull migrate to quietly; he says, their principles are an- that laun o' free toleration," and "comi-christian, and evidently believes, the pleet the wark, out o' the rich materials to time has come, when some such able man as himself should set about exposing them to universal reprobation. It is not strange We are not Quakers, nor is religious con- that Mr B. should be a bigot, thinking that troversy our favourite study; but when nothing can be believed or understood as this work was handed us a short time ago, it should be, by them who do not make his we carefully read it, and the result of our creed their rule of belief, for the world reflections upon it we propose to give our holds many such unfortunate people; but it readers. The principles of this sect have is strange, that he should think of attackbeen often and thoroughly examined by ing with his most especial wrath, the reliothers, and amply and voluminously ex-gious principles of a society, which the best plained by themselves; and we could not men of all denominations of Christians were, exactly understand why William Craig as we thought, willing to acknowledge as Brownlee happened to think it worth while an established Christian sect. The manfor him to write this book at this time? ner of this attack is not less strange; inAfter all the examination-and it has been deed, we are very happy to acknowledge, a close one-that we have made of his book, that there is, throughout, a very laudable we can discover no reasonable cause for conformity between the design of the work this strange proceeding. We thought, to and its execution. His book begins by a use this author's own language, that "they formal dedication to his uncle, a professor had taken their place" among Christian of anatomy in the University of Glasgow. sects, that "they dwelt in the presence of Next follows an adverstisement to the readall their brethren;" we thought, and still er, setting forth the author's diffidence think, that a society, which, as a body, had (which is the first and last time that his gloriously distinguished itself in the pro- diffidence appears in the book), and hinting motion of many acts of justice and charity, that he has taken great pains in collecting a society, that early raised its voice against materials, and that if his work take with the slave trade-one of the foulest blots in the public, he may be induced to mention the history of Christian nations, a society how much pains it cost, him. Next is a which has produced such men as Penn, and long and minute table of contents. Then Benezet, and Fothergill, and Reynolds, and comes what the author sees fit to call the which numbers among its members the he- proem, which occupies thirty-seven pages roic Mrs Fry, might have been permitted with the story of the rebellion of the Presto enjoy its own principles in peace. We byterians in Scotland, during the time of thought, and still think, that the principles Charles II. ;-which is rendered peculiarly which led to actions such as theirs, are pleasant by a reference to the part that justly entitled to the denomination of Chris- the author's great-great-grandfather bore tian; for we are inclined, with all defer- therein. We are to understand that this ence to Mr Brownlee, to think there is tol-"great progenitor" was a star of pretty erable authority for believing, that "the tree is known by its fruit." We thought, as the Quakers say of themselves in the paragraph quoted as a sort of motto to the first part of the book on our table, that they were "just considered as a good sort of people in the main; who refused to fight, and to swear, and to pay tythes; and while the improved manners of the age allow that for these, and other singularities, they ought not to be molested, the public, in general, cares little further about them;" and we thought further, that the Society was producing by its Christian example, a salutary effect upon the nations in which it existed, and slowly and imperceptibly changing for the better, the views of mankind upon one or two important subjects; as, for instance,

considerable magnitude among the Presby-
terians of old, as Mr B. succeeds in finding
him named in one book published about the
time, where, it seems, that mention of him
occurs in a sort of muster-roll of some pas-
sengers in a certain ship that was wrecked
in the Orkneys. There is, in this same
proem, an account of the battle of Drum-
clog, and of Bothwell-bridge; which, as
as well as the rest of this part of the
work, is written in a style that strongly re-
minds us of Macpherson's Ossian, and
Weems' Life of Washington. All we gath-
er from the proem that has any relation to
the subject, may be comprised in one short
sentence, to wit, that the author's aforesaid
ancestor designed to write a polemical work
against the Quakers, but as the wit of the

be had in the toon of that singulair and graite maun, Maister William Penn." We regret, as the work did not see the light within the time that the old man seems to have contemplated, that it should ever have been produced. After the "proem" follows another address to the reader, setting forth, what, we believe in spite of Mr Brownlee's example, is the truth, that "religious inquiry, and even controversy, is perfectly consistent with the loveliest exercise of charity," and that "politeness and courtesy should preside over religious debates." How far this "minister of the gospel" has exercised charity, and how much he is governed by the rules of politeness and courtesy, our readers will presently see, in the extracts which we purpose to make. Then follow what are called maxims; at the end of which he says, that the Quakers in this controversy are the assailants, and he the defendant; because, saith he, the publication of the opinions of a society has in it the nature of an open challenge! Of course, Mr Brownlee considers himself as having undergone the challenge of every body who has written a book; we hope our valiant champion will, in mercy to the "reading public,"-who must be in some sort seconds and bottle-holders,-play recreant occasionally, and not do battle on all these provocations. After two mottos, we reach the first part of the main work, which is styled "An Historical Dissertation on the Origin, Rise, &c. of the Society of Friends." In this part he endeavours to show, that certain opinions held by Plato, with some modifications, were also held by divers of the ancient Christian writers in the first and second centuries of the Christian era, were received by great numbers of the Greek Church, and, after the fall of the eastern empire, were also adopted by multitudes of the Latin Church, and continued in substance to prevail till the time of Luther, and afterwards spread widely among the Protestant churches, and now form a part of the doctrines of the Quakers. Allowing this to be a correct genealogy, allowing that these opinions are correctly traced up to Plato, who was not a Christian, still, it does not follow from this that the doctrines are false, and nobody, Quaker or not, supposes that this proves them to be true. A man may believe many errors, and yet teach some truths, although our author cannot un

derstand this. This precious argument is a very favourable specimen of his logic. If he can prove that a particular doctrine was held by a bad man, omne tulit punctumthe doctrine is false. We are willing to believe that the Reverend Mr Brownlee does not perceive, that by adopting this mode of reasoning, he might prove the Christian religion false in its fundamental doctrine-the existence of God; it is said, we do assure him, that "the devils believe and tremble;" of course, all that they believe, is, by Mr Brownlee, held to form no part of religious truth.

Having traced the progress of the aforesaid doctrines down to the time of Cromwell, he commences his history of the Quakers, in which he rakes up with most meritorious industry, every old calumny against the early members of that sect, both as to doctrine and conduct; intermingling discussions of their principles, which it would have been more methodical to have reserved for the second part of his work; and concluding with a section in which he charges the Society with divers self-contradictions in their doctrines, and its members, generally, with living more luxuriously than he thinks George Fox would approve, were he to rise from the dead. The second part consists of divers "Dissertations on their doctrinal tenets, their worship, ministry, &c.," in which he asserts among other things, that "their general principles are hostile to the practice of brotherly love and charity." The work concludes with two appendixes; the former of which consists of notes too long to be inserted in the margin, and the latter is a brief notice of some of the more eminent writers and ministers among the Quakers.

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merely of asperity and contempt, but of very And in subsequent periods, and even until lately,
vulgar rudeness; expressions the very re-
the preachers had some dregs of this turbulent
verse of polite and courteous, and such as spirit. They quaked, they shuddered, and heaved
we had hoped that all disputants on reli- up words from the fund of the soul;" but still
they kept on their feet. And in our times in Phil
gious topics in the present day would care-adelphia, there have been specimens of violent
fully avoid. We shall show, unless the shruggings of the shoulders, and brachial twitches,
subject grows under our hands out of all and prodigious wry faces, and thumpings on the
allowable limits, that he has endeavoured pews. These, however, are not so much the effects
to calumniate the society in every possi- mind in travail, when it has nothing to bring forth."
of the Delphic Spirit, as the unnatural efforts of a
ble way; by charging upon them the
acts, many times abundantly foolish, of
their predecessors, which are no way con-
nected with their doctrines, which the man-
ners of their age go far to excuse or to
palliate, and for which the Quakers of the
present day are just so far answerable as
William Craig Brownlee is answerable for
the murder of Archbishop Sharpe; by
detailing the mad acts of James Naylor,
John Tolderoy, John Perrot, and others,
for which very acts, as Brownlee well
knows, those men were expelled from the
society; by asserting that the doctrines of
the Quakers lead to certain evil consequen-
ces, which are contradicted not by the
Quakers alone, and not only by all sound
reasoning, but by the plain testimony of
facts before the world; by depreciating and
damning with faint praise those acts of the
Quakers, which even he dares not deny to
be laudable; and, though last, not least, by
wilful misrepresentations of facts and doc-men, is set forth in terms of rare courtesy.
Thus,
trines.
So much for assertion ;-let us now pro-
"In the United States, they are, it is presumed,
ceed to our proofs. And first, for the au-
on the increase. Remote from the projects of am-
thor's politeness. In page 68, he very de-bitious statesmen, and the struggles of the warrior
corously applies the language of Butler to
for his bloody laurels, and the political convulsions
Fox, saying, he

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"Had lights where other eyes were blind,
As pigs are said to see the wind."

From page 96 to 101, is exclusively occupied by ridicule of the dress of the Quakers. Upon this subject he is extremely smart. We had marked a sentence on page 97, which we should extract, but that it is too grossly indecent to be repeated. We are unwilling to disgust our readers with the vulgarity with which the "reverend" controversialist illustrates his religious inquiries. That this facetious minister of the gospel may have no doubt as to the sentence to which we refer, we will tell him it is that which begins thus; "But the small clothes, I cannot find that it is a as to the make of the last article, I mean sine qua non, that it should exactly resemble the mode of that on the fine statue of Penn, in the hospital yard of Philadelphia. This has got," &c.

the Quakers are more avaricious than other In page 125, the unfounded assertion that

of nations, the society has held its way, and followed its own concerns in pursuit of riches, with a step as steady as time, and an appetite as keen as death."

He ends the first part of his book with the following sentence and note.

As the steady followers of Fox, the Society of the founders of the society, that they makes plainness a distinguished article of their reDenounced and prayed with deep devotion;-ligion; yet such is the richness of their dresses, Stole from the mystics all their tones, the splendour of their equipages, the luxury of And gifted mortified groans;their tables, the delicacy and profusion of their wines, that, if the same George Fox were to rise from the dead, and behold the mournful degeneracy of his disciples, he would come down in great wrath; he would resume his Herculean labours, and he would fight all his battles over again, in or ganizing a new sect out of degenerated Quakerism.

Made children with their tones to run for't,
As bad as bloody bones and Lunford !"
In pages 93 and 94, occur the following
courteous and polite paragraphs.

He quotes the same writer again (considThis outline of the contents of this book, ering him, we suppose, excellent help in a rewe thought a proper preliminary to enter-ligious inquiry) in page 72, saying generaling on a more detailed examination. We ly are not competent to the task, even if we were inclined to it, of attempting to defend the Quakers against the charges, true or false, which this minister of the gospel has here arrayed against them; and neither our readers, nor the Quakers themselves, would thank us for the attempt, were we to make it. It is our duty, however, to expose and reprobate the rancorous spirit by which the book was evidently dictated. We call our work a Literary Gazette, and consider ourselves bound to give notice to all classes of readers, as far as we can, what matter is provided for them. Now, we suppose Mr B. will admit that his great book was written for somebody to read, and whoever this somebody is, if he chances to be a subscriber of ours, we will do our best to let him know what sort of stuff this bulky octavo is made of.

First, and as of the least moment, we shall show what the author understands by that "politeness and courtesy which should preside over religious debates." Did we not have his word for the contrary, we should almost think some of his expressions against the doctrines he impugns, and against the supporters of those doctrines, the living as well as the dead, savoured not

*Plumpudding week-(all the world has heard of plumpudding week) affords a fair specimen of this to their country prophets and members."

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In page 178 occurs the following passage.

"The convulsions of Apollo lasted, with various fame, during the glory of the Delphic Oracle. At last, that spirit left his shrine. The Quakings of the Syrian priests also ceased. So, these holy tremblings, which commenced about the year 1650, went on briskly till 1660. These ancient tremblings were completely outdone by them. We sing before and after sermon only; but Those of the priestess could bear no comparison. their preachers, male and female, monopolizing Here were the spasms of the delicate female. But the whole, sing both prayers and sermons! and in the Society, not only little children, and women, still their great tenet is not surrendered. For verbut robust men, were thrown into 'hideous contor-ily their notes are not according to the carnal tions.' In the former case, a solitary person filled rules," &c. &c. the temple of the idol with groans and shrieks. In the latter, prostrate hundreds covered the place as in a day of slaughter. And if any credit can be given to an author [whom in point of candour, we [says he was] an eye witness of what he relates, so think, Mr B. wonderfully resembles], who was great was the combat between the good seed and the bad seed,' and so hideous were the groans and yellings, that in a field adjacent to the meeting, the herds of cattle, and swine, and dogs, ran about as if mad; and each joining in the notes which nature has given them, they swelled the chorus into something superhuman. Totus autem simul bacchatus est mons.

and very argumentative sentence.
In page 187, is the following dignified

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Christ 'gave the title and true right to those who turned to the pure light within.' George Fox, Cordwainer, and his coadjutors were the royal

heirs; they received the whole right and title in fee simple."

Seeing that our author's love of truth so far overcame his diffidence, as to permit him to make proper mention of his modesty, his candour, and his courtesy, we regret that he was induced to withhold a confession of

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