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An Exposition of Facts, in a Letter to Stephen Gould, an Elder of the Society of Friends
New-Bedford: Benjamin Lindsey, 1823. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); removed; vi,[7]-34pp. Light wear from handling, slight foxing, minor circular stain to front, else a Very Good copy. Account of the author's disownment by his meeting at New Bedford, Massachusetts. Though Barton considered himself a true Quaker, he also writes here "I consider that all religious practice is wrong in every case, wherein rules and excitements from without, instead of the principle of light and life in the heart, govern our conduct; and therefore I feel it a duty, to leave all outward societies" (p. 23). SABIN 3841; SHOEMAKER 11757.
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