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He had no sooner settled his government but several American merchants came and peopled this colony The natives of the country instead of flying into the woods cultivated by insensible degrees a friendship with the peaceable Quakers They loved these foreigners as much as they detested the other Christians who had conquered and laid waste America In a little time a great number of these savages falsely so called charmed with the mild and gentle disposition of their neighbours came in crowds to William Penn and besought him to admit them into the number of his vassals It was very rare and uncommon for a sovereign to be theed and thoud by the meanest of his subjects who never took their hats off when they came into his presence and as singular for a Government to be without one priest in it and for a people to be without arms either offensive or defensive for a body of citizens to be absolutely undistinguished but by the public employments and for neighbours not to entertain the least jealousy one against the other William Penn might glory in having brought down upon earth the so much boasted golden age which in all probability never existed but in Pennsylvania He returned to England to settle some affairs relating to his new dominions After the of King Charles II King James who had loved the father indulged the same affection to the son and no longer considered him as an obscure sectary but as a very great man The kings politics on this occasion agreed with his inclinations He was desirous of pleasing the Quakers by annulling the laws made against Nonconformists in order to have an opportunity by this universal toleration of establishing the Romish religion All the sectarists in England saw the snare that was laid for them but did not give into it they never failing to unite when the Romish religion their common enemy is to be opposed But Penn did not think himself bound

in any manner to renounce his principles merely to favour Protestants to whom he was odious in opposition to a king who loved him He had established a universal toleration with regard to conscience in America and would not have it thought that he intended to destroy it in Europe for which reason he adhered so inviolably to King James that a report prevailed universally of his being a Jesuit This calumny affected him very strongly and he was obliged to justify himself in print However the unfortunate King James II in whom as in most princes of the Stuart family grandeur and weakness were equally blended and who like them as much overdid some things as he was short in others lost his kingdom in a manner that is ly to be accounted for All the English sectarists accepted from William III and his Parliament the toleration and indulgence which they had refused when offered by King James It was then the Quakers began to enjoy by virtue of the laws the several privileges they possess at this time Penn having at last seen Quakerism firmly established in his native country went back to Pennsylvania His own people and the Americans received him with tears of joy as though he had been a father who was returned to visit his ren All the laws had been religiously observed in his absence a circumstance in which no legislator had ever been happy but himself After having resided some years in Pennsylvania he left it but with great reluctance in order to return to England there to solicit some matters in favour of the commerce of Pennsylvania But he never saw it again he dying in Ruscombe in Berkshire in I am not able to guess what fate Quakerism may have in America but I perceive it ddles away daily in England In all countries where liberty of conscience is allowed the established religion will at last swallow up all the rest Quakers are disqualified from being members of Parliament nor can they enjoy any post or preferment because an oath must always be taken on these occasions and they never swear They are therefore reduced to the necessity of subsisting upon traffic Their ren whom the industry of their parents has enriched are desirous of enjoying honours of wearing ons and ruffles and quite ashamed of being called Quakers they become converts to the Church of England merely to be in the fashion LETTER VON THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND England is properly the country of sectarists Multae sunt mansiones in domo patris mei in my Fathers house are many mansions An Englishman as one to whom liberty is natural may go to heaven his own way Nevertheless though every one is permitted to serve God in whatever mode or fashion he thinks proper yet their true religion that in which a man makes his fortune is the sect of Episcopalians or Churchmen called the Church of England or simply the Church by way of eminence No person can possess an employment either in England or Ireland unless he be ranked among the faithful that is professes himself a member of the Church of England This reason which carries mathematical evidence with it has converted such numbers of Dissenters of all persuasions that not a twentieth part of the nation is out of the pale of the Established Church The English clergy have retained a great number of the Romish ceremonies and especially that of receiving with a most scrupulous attention their tithes They also have the pious ambition to aim at superiority Moreover they inspire very religiously their flock with a holy zeal against Dissenters of all denominations This zeal was pretty violent under the Tories in the four last years of Queen Anne but was productive of no greater mischief than the breaking the dows of some meetinghouses and the demolishing of a few of them For religious rage ceased in England with the civil wars and was no more under Queen Anne than the hollow noise of a sea whose billows still heaved though so long after the storm when the Whigs and Tories laid waste their native country in the same manner as the Guelphs and Ghibelins formerly did theirs It was absolutely necessary for both parties to call in religion on this occasion the Tories declared for Episcopacy and the Whigs as some imagined were for abolishing it however after these had got the upper hand they contented themselves with only abridging it

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