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progressively to maturity._

CHAPTER VIII.
SECT. I._--Possibility of redemption to all denied by the favours of
"Election and Reprobation"--Quaker-refutation of the later doctrine._
SECT. II._--Quaker refutation continued._

CHAPTER IX.
_Recapitulation of all the doctrines advanced--Objection that the
Quakers make every thing of the Spirit and but little of Jesus
Christ--Attempt to show that Christians often differ without a just
cause--Or that there is no material difference between the creeds of the
Quakers and that of the objectors on this subject._

CHAPTER X.
SECT. I._--Ministers of the Gospel--Quakers conceive that the spirit of
God alone can qualify for the ministry--Women equally qualified with
men--Way in which ministers are called and acknowledged among the
Quakers._
SECT. II._--Quaker-ministers, when acknowledged, engage in family
visits--Nature of these--and sometimes in missions through
England--and sometimes in foreign parts._

CHAPTER XI.
_Elders--Their origin and their office--These are not to meddle with the
discipline of the church._

CHAPTER XII.
SECT I._--Worship--is usually made to consist of prayer and
preaching--But neither of these are considered by the Quakers to be
effectual without the aid of the spirit--Hence no liturgy or studied form
of words among the Quakers--Reputed manner and character of
Quaker-preaching--Observations upon these._
SECT. II--_Silent worship--Manner of it--Worship not necessarily
connected with words--Advantages of this mode of worship._
SECT. III.--_Quakers discard every thing formal and superstitious from
their worship--No consecrated ground--No priest's garments--No
psalmody--No one day esteemed by them holier than another--Reasons
for these singularities._

CHAPTER XIII.
_Miscellaneous particularities--Quakers seldom use the words "original
sin," or "Trinity," and never "the word of God" for the
Scriptures--Believe in the manhood and divinity of Christ--In the
resurrection--Their ideas on sanctification and justification._

CHAPTER XIV.
_Quakers reject baptism and the Lord's supper--Indulgence solicited for
them on account of the difficulties connected with these
subjects--These difficulties explained._

CHAPTER XV.
SECT. I.--_Two baptisms, that of John and of Christ--That of John was

by water--and a Jewish ordinance--John the prophet left under the law._
SECT. II.--_Baptism of Christ was by the Spirit--This the baptism of
the Gospel--Authorities on which this distinction between the two is
founded._
SECT. III.--_Quakers conceive it was not the baptism of John which
Jesus included in the Great Commission, when he ordered his disciples
to go into all nations, and to teach them, baptizing in the name of the
father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost--This shown from
expressions taken from St. Peter and St. Paul--and from the object and
nature of this baptism._
SECT. IV.--_But that it was the baptism of Christ--This shown from a
critical examination of the words in the commission itself--And from
the commission, as explained by St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. Paul._
SECT. V.--_Practice of Jesus and the Apostles a confirmation of this
opinion._

CHAPTER XVI.
Sect. I.--_Two suppers, the one instituted by Moses, the other by Jesus
Christ--The first called the passover--Ancient and modern manner of its
celebration._
Sect. II.--_Second, enjoined by Jesus at Capernaum--This wholly, of a
spiritual nature--Way in which this may be enjoyed._
Sect. III.--_Quakers say that Jesus instituted no new supper distinct
from that of the passover, and which was to render null and void that
enjoined at Capernaum, at a rite of the Christian church--No such
institution to be collected from St. Matthew, St. Mark, or St. John._
Sect. IV.--_Nor from St. Luke--St. Luke only says, that all future
passovers of the Disciples with Christ were to be spiritual--but if, as

Jews, they could not all at once abdicate the passover to which they had
been educated, they were to celebrate it with a new meaning--But no
acknowledged permission of it to others._
Sect. V.--_Nor from St. Paul--St. Paul only says that the passover, as
spiritualized by Jesus, was allowed to his disciples, or to the Jewish
converts, who could not all at once lay aside their prejudices
concerning it, but that it was to last only for a time--Different opinions
about this time--That of the Quakers concerning it._
Sect. VI.--_Had a new supper, distinct from that of the passover, been
intended as a ceremonial of the Christian church, it would have been
commanded to others besides the disciples, and its duration would not
have been limited--Reasons from St. Paul, to show that he himself did
not probably consider it as a Christian ordinance--Whereas the supper
enjoined at Capernaum, was to be eternal--and universal--and an
essential with all Christians._
PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF THE QUAKERS.
(CONTINUED)
VOL. II B.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF THE QUAKERS.

CHAP. I.
SECTION I.
_Marriage--Quakers differ in many respects from others, on the subject
of Marriage--George Fox introduced Regulations concerning
it--Protested against the usual manner of the celebration of it--Gave an
example of what he recommended--Present regulations of the Quakers
on this subject._
In the continuation of the Customs of the Quakers, a subject which I
purpose to