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Tribute to Caesar, how paid by the best Christians, and to what purpose : With some remarks on the late vigourous expedition against Canada. Of civil government, how inconsistent it is with the government of Christ in his Church. Compared with the ancient just and righteous principles of the Quakers, and their modern practice and doctrine. With some notes upon the discipline of their church in this province, especially at Philadelphia. / By Philalethes. ; [Three lines].

Author/creator Rakestraw, William
Other author/creatorMaule, Thomas, 1645-1724.
Format Book and Microform
Publication Info[Philadelphia] : [Printed by Andrew Bradford?], [betwen 1713 and 1715]
Description6 unnumbered pages, 29 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; (4to)
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 1572
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 1572. ^A478749
General noteOccasioned by a sermon preached by Thomas Story, Sept. 16, 1711, urging the Quakers to pay the tax for the expedition to Canada in 1711.
General noteAttributed to William Rakestraw by J.D. Marietta in "William Rakestraw: pacifist pamphleteer and party servant." Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography 98 (1974): 53-57. Erroneously attributed to Thomas Maule by Evans.
General noteAndrew Bradford is suggested as printer by Wilberforce Eames. See Jones, M.B. "Thomas Maule, the Salem Quaker, and Free Speech in Massachusetts Bay, with Bibliographical Notes." Essex Institute Historical Collections LXXII (1936): 1-42. Evans suggests Jacob Taylor as printer.
General noteREADEX NOTE: Title page not filmed.
References Evans 1572
Reproduction noteJoyner- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 1572).

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