A serious address to such of the people called Quakers : on the continent of North America, as profess scruples relative to the present government: exhibiting the ancient real testimony of that people, concerning obedience to civil authority / Written before the departure of the British army from Philadelphia, 1778, by a native of Pennsylvania. To which are added, for the information of all rational enquirers, an appendix, consisting of extracts from An essay concerning obedience to the supreme powers, and the duty of subjects in all revolutions, published in England soon after the revolution of 1688. The second edition. Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, at the North-east Corner of Race- and Second-streets, MDCCLXXVIII [1778].
" 'The Friends buying up the first edition in order to suppress it, induced Mr. Ebenezer Hazard (of Philadelphia) to republish it. W. G.' From a Ms. note on the back of the title of a copy of the above."--Joseph Smith, A descr. catalogue of Friends' books, 1867, v. 1, p. 71.
Signatures: [A]-F⁴.
Rockefeller Library copy signed "George Nelson"--title page.
