Excerpt from Reasons for Withdrawing From Society With the People Called Quakers: With Additional Observations on Sundry Important Subjects; To Which Is Added a Friendly Expostulation, and Serious Considerations on Revelation, the Scriptures, War, Morality and Superstition To search for truth, and publicly to acknowledge it in word and deed, in the worstof times, I account an essential duty - to iobtain a, superficial praise, by sacri ficing Clear convictions to public opinions, I hold not in estimation. Hlay'truthsbe established. It, and to no other authority, I wlsh to bow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.