This was written in answer to a specific sermon by Smallwood
, in which he defended the swearing of formal oaths. MF
saw him as a misleader of others, an actual Antichrist, and seized the...
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Margaret Fell
The same year, says Kunze
, MF
wrote Margaret Fell's Answer to Allan Smallwood
Dr. Priest of Grastock in Cumberland, a recently re-discovered text.
Kunze, Bonnelyn Young. Margaret Fell and the Rise of Quakerism. Macmillan, 1994.