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BX 7731 C6
1808 V. 2
CONTENTS
OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS.
CHAP. I.
SECT. I. Marriage-regulations and example of George
Fox relative to marriage-present regulations
and manner of the celebration of it among the
Quakers
p. 1
SECT. 2. Those who marry out of the Society are disown- ed—various reasons for such a measure—ob-
jection to it-reply
6
SECT. 3.but the disowned may be restored to member-
ship-terms of their restoration—these terms
censured-reply
12
SECT. 4. more women disowned on this account than
men probable causes of this difference of
number
15
CHAP. II.
SECT. 1. Funerals-extravagance and pageantry of an-
cient and modern funerals—these discarded by
the Quakers-plain manner in which they in-
ter their dead
18
SECT. 2. Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental
inscriptions-various reasons of their disuse
of these
22
SECT. 3.-neither do they use mourning garments—rea-
sons why they thus differ from the world-
these reasons further elucidated by considera-
tions on court mourning
27
Occupations-agriculture declining among the Quakers
-causes and disadvantages of this decline 31
CHAP. IV.
SECT. 1. Trade-Quakers view trade as a moral ques-
tion-prohibit a variety of trades and dealings
on this account-various other wholesome re-
gulations concerning it
37
SECT. 2.but though the Quakers thus prohibit many
trades, they are found in some which are con-
sidered objectionable by the world—these spe-
cified and examined
CHAP. V.
44
Settlement of differences-abstain from duels-and also
from law-have recourse to arbitration—their
rules concerning arbitration—an account of an
arbitration-society at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on
Quaker-principles
54
CHAP. VI.
SECT. 1. Poor no beggars among the Quakers-manner
of relieving and providing for their poor 63
SECT. 2. Education of the children of their poor provided
for-observations on the number of the Qua-
ker-poor-and on their character
67
RELIGION.
Introduction.-Invitation to a perusal of this part of the
work the necessity of humility and charity
in religion, on account of the limited powers of
the human understanding object of this in-
vitation
73
God has given to all, besides an intellectual, a spiritual
understanding-some have had a greater por-
tion of this Spirit than others, such as Abra-
ham, and Moses, and the Prophets, aud Apos-
tles Jesus Christ had it without limit or
measure
78
Unless a man has a portion of the same Spirit which
Jesus, and the Prophets, and the Apostles had,
he cannot know spiritual things—this doctrine
confirmed by St. Paul-aud elucidated by a
comparison between the faculties of men and
of brutes
CHAP. III.
84
Neither, unless he has a portion of the same Spirit, can
he know the Scriptures to be of Divine origin,
nor can he spiritualiy understand them-ob-
jection to this doctrine-reply
91
This Spirit, which has been given to men in different de-
grees, has been given them as a teacher or
guide in their spiritual concerns-way in
which it teaches
100
This Spirit may be considered as the primary and infal-
lible guide-and the Scriptures but a secon-
dary means of instruction but the Quakers
do not undervalue the latter on this account-
their opinion concerning them
106
'This Spirit, as a primary and infallible guide, has been
given to men universally—from the Creation
to Moses from Moses to Christ—from Christ
to the present day
CHAP. VII.
112
SECT. 1. And as it has been given universally to men, so
it has been given them sufficiently-they, who
resist it, quench it-those, who attend to it,
are in the way of redemption
-
126
SECT. 2. This Spirit then, besides its office of a spiritual
guide, performs that of a Redeemer to men-
redemption outward and inward-inward ef-
fected by this Spirit
130
SECT. 3. Inward redemption produces a new birth and
leads to perfection-this inward redemption
possible to all
135
SECT. 4. New birth and perfection more particularly ex-
plained-new birth as real from “the spiri-
tual seed of the Kingdom," as that of plants
and vegetables from their seeds in the natural