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on in the same manner pro-

gressively to maturity

Sect. 1. Possibility of redemption to all, denied by the

favourers of “ Election and Reprobation”-

Quaker-refutation of the latter doctrine . 213

Sect. 2. Quaker-refutation continued

290

Recapitulation of all the doctrines advanced-objection

that the Quakers make every thing of the

Spirit, and but little of Jesus Christmattempt

to show that Christians often differ without

a just cause or that there is no material dif-

ference between the creeds of the Quakers and

that of the objectors on this subject 235

С НАР, Ҳ.

Sect. 1. 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 ac-

knowledged among the Quakers

SECT. 2. Quaker-ministers, when acknowledged, engage

in family-visits-nature of these---and some-

times in missions through England - and

sometimes in foreign parts

CIIAP. XI.

Elders---their origin and their office—these are not to

meddle with the discipline of the Church . 270

Sect. 1. Worship—is usually made to consist of prayer

and preaching—but neither of these is con-

sidered by the Quakers to be effectual wilh-

out 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 276

Sect. 2. Silent worship—manner of it-worship not ne-

cessarily connected with words—advantages

of this mode of worship

Sect. 3. Quakers discard every thing formal and super-

stitious from their worship-no consecrated

ground—no priests' garments—no psalmody

-no one day esteemed by them holier than

another reasons for these singularities . 302

Miscellaneous particularities--Quakers seldom use the

u'ords “ Original Sin," or “ Trinity," and

never “ the Word of God” for the Scrip-

tures—believe in the manhood and divinity of

Christ in the resurrection-their ideas on

Sanctification and Justification

Quakers reject Baptism and the Lord's Supper-indul-

gence solicited for them on account of the diffi-

culties connected with these subjects-these

difficulties explained

CHAP. XV.

Sect. 1. Two laptisms, that of John, and of Christ,

that

that of John was by water--and a Jewish

ordinance-John the last prophet under the

Sect. 2. Baptism of Christ was by the Spirit this the

baptism of the Gospel-authorities on which

this distinction between the two is founded

Sect. 3. Quakers conceive it was not the baptism of

John which Jesus included in the great com-

mission 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 ex-

pressions taken from St. Peter and St. Paul

--and from the object and nature of this

Sect. 4. --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. 5. Practice of Jesus and the Apostles a confirma-

tion of this opinion

Sect. 1. Two Suppers, the one instituted by Moses, the

other by Jesus Christ-the first called the

Passover~antient and modern manner of its

SECT. 2. Second, enjoined by Jesus at Capernaum-this

wholly of a spiritual nature-way in which

this may be enjoyed

SECT.

Sect. 3. Quakers say that Jesus instituted no new Supa

per distinct from that of the Passover, and

which was to render null and void that en-

joineil at Capernaum, as a rite of the Chris-

tian Church- no such institution to be col-

lected from St. Matthew, St. Mark, or St.

Sect. 4. --nor from St. Luke-St. Luke only says, that

all future Passover-suppers 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

Sect. 5. -ror 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 prejuices concerning it, but that it was

to last only for a time different opinions

about this time that of the Quakers con-

Sect. 6. Had a new Supper, distinct from that of the

Passover, been intended as a ceremonial of the

Christian Church, it would have been com=

manded to others besides the Disciples, and

it's duration would not have been limited

reasons from St. Paul, to show that he him.

self did not probably consider it as a Chris-

tian ordinance-whereas the Supper, enjoined

at Capernaum, was to be eternal

sal--and an essential with all Christians . 424

PECU-

PECULIAR CUSTOMS

OF THE

QUAKERS.

(Continued.)

VOL. II.

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