A TREATISE

ON

CHURCH GOVERNMENT.

1

ON

CHURCH GOVERNMENT.

BEING A TWOFOLD APOLOGY

FOR THE

CHURCH AND PEOPLE OF GOD,

CALLED, IN DERISION, QUAKERS.

WHEREIN

They are vindicated from those that accuse them of disorder and confusion on the
one hand, and from such as calumniate them with tyranny and imposition on the
other; showing, that, as the true and pure principles of the Gospel are restored by
their testimony, so is also the ancient Apostolic order of the Church of Christ
re-established among them, and settled upon its right basis and foundation.

BY ROBERT BARCLAY.

.PHIL. ii. 3. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of
mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

HEB. xiii. 7. Remember them that have the rule over you, who have spoken unto
you the word of God, whose faith follow.

PHILADELPHIA:

FOR SALE AT FRIENDS' BOOK-STORE,

No. 304 ARCH STREET.

1872.