Observations On The Two Sons Of Oil

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Excerpt from Observations on "the Two Sons of Oil" Containing a Vindication of the American Constitutions, and Defending the Blessings of Religious Liberty and Toleration, Against the Illiberal Strictures of the Rev. Samuel B. Wylie The books having been taken away from the office at which they had been advertised for sale, I had difficulty to find a copy and when I did procure one, I found that the half of the mischief, which it was calculated to promote. Had not been told me; that it not only grossly misrepresented the government and laws of the United States in general, but more particularly that of Pennsy lva nia. The encouragement given to people so disposed, to kill their neighbours with expectation of impunity, and for slaves to kill their masters, are but a few, out of numerous instances, of the insidious slanders which his book contains. If teaching to resist the ordi nance of legitimate civil government, to refuse to obey the magis trates, for conscience sake, from whom they receive and claim pro tection; if despising dominion, speaking evil of dignities, and stirring up sedition, are contrary, not only to the moral law, but also to the precepts of the gospel, the Sons of Oil is certainly so. On a first perusal of it, I thought these, together with the nume rous inconsistencies it contains, must, to every dispassionate en. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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