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Creeds in Quakerism: The Barbados Letter

Posted on Monday, April 23, 2007 at 08:00PM by Registered CommenterMarshall Massey in | Comments23 Comments | References1 Reference

Updated on Thursday, April 26, 2007 at 05:43AM by Registered CommenterMarshall Massey

If the early Friends were unwilling to let a Jew or an atheist sit in their colonial legislature, it would seem a safe assumption that they would not have allowed such a one to sit on a facing bench, or to clerk a monthly meeting, either.

So the bare facts that most every Friend “knows” about early Quakerism, cannot really be taken as proving that the early Friends had no unwritten equivalent to a creed within their own communities.

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