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“By liberty of conscience, we understand not only a mere liberty of the mind, in believing or disbelieving this or that principle or doctrine; but the exercise of ourselves in a visible way of worship, upon our believing it to be indispensably required at our hands, that if we neglect it for fear of favor of any mortal man, we sin and incur divine wrath.”

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Book:The Select Works of William Penn....
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“My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”

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Book:The Sandy Foundation Shaken, Or Those So Generally Believed and Applauded Doctrines of One God, Subsisting in Three Distinct and Separate Persons [etc.] Refuted, from the Authority of Scriptures Testimonies and Right Reason
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“The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.”

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Book:No Cross, No Crown: A Discourse Showing the Nature and Discipline of the Holy Cross of Christ, and that the Denial of Self, and Daily Bearing of Christ's Cross, is the Alone Way to the Rest and Kingdom of God : to which are Added, the Living and Dying Testimonies of Many Persons of Fame and Learning, Both of Ancient and Modern Times, in Favour of this Treatise : in Two Parts
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“That which the people called Quakers lay down as a main fundamental in religion is this- That God, through Christ, hath placed a principle in every man, to inform him of his duty, and to enable him to do it; and that those that live up to this principle are the people of God, and those that live in disobedience to it, are not God's people, whatever name they may bear, or profession they may make of religion. This is their ancient, first, and standing testimony: with this they began, and this they bore, and do bear to the world.”

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Book:Primitive Christianity revived in the faith and practice of the people called Quakers: Written in testimony to the present dispensation of God through them to the world that prejudices may be removed, the simple informed, the well-inclined encouraged, and the truth, and its innocent friends rightly represented
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