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Quaker Culture: Hireling Ministers

ALL the holy men of God they spoke forth freely, and when any spoke for Hire, it was a filthie and a horrible thing, and the Lord did abhor it, and sent forth his true Prophets to crie out against them.

– Prisoners at York Castle: Thomas Aldam, Mary Fisher, Jane Holmes, Elisabeth Hooton, Benjamin Nichalson, and William Pears (1652)