Excerpt from Vindication of the Society of Friends: Being a Reply to a Review of Cox on Quakerism, Published in the Biblical Repertory As it is generally understood that the people Of the pres ent day are possessed Of much more liberal and tolerant principles, there is no disposition on the part Of Friends, to reproach them with the conduct Of their ancestors. Far be it from us to insinuate, that there is any analogy be tween the character Of those persecutors, and that Of their successors in religious profession Of the present times, unless the latter should prove that they allow the deeds Of their fathers, by attempting to palliate them. 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.