The Peace Testimony of the Religious Society of Friends
The title page
We utterly deny all outward wars and strife and fightings with outward weapons for any end or under any pretence whatsoever. And this is our testimony to the whole world. The spirit of Christ, by which we are guided, is not changeable, so as once to command us from a thing as evil and again to move unto it; and we do certainly know, and so testify to the world, that the spirit of Christ, which leads us into all Truth, will never move us to fight and war against any man with outward weapons, neither for the kingdom of Christ, nor for the kingdoms of this world.
From a Declaration from
the Harmless and Innocent
People of God, called Quakers,
presented to Charles II, 1660.
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