"bought them back and burned them"

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      "The uncompromising sternness with which a few Quakers respected a single point of conscience seems to us now an obsession:  Solomon Eccles renounced music teaching and sold his virginals and viols, but feeling guilty, bought them back and burned them. . . .  But this same sensitiveness later drove John Woolman to refuse all compromise about slavery."

     Hugh Barbour, The Quakers in Puritan England, Yale publications in religion 7 (New Haven and London:  Yale University Press, 1964), 161-162.