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11 JAN 1968
1
CONTENTS
OF THE
SECOND VOLUME.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS.
P. 3
CHAP: I.
Secr. 1. Marriage-regulations and example of George
Fox relative to marriage--present regulations
and manner of the celebration of it
among
the
Quakers
Sect. 2. Those who marry out of the Society are dis-
owned-various reasons for such a measurem
objection to it-reply
10
SECT. 3. -uut the disowned may be restored to member-
ship-terms of their restoration--these terms
censured-reply
-18
Secr. 4.
- more women disowned on this account than
men-probable causes of this difference of
number..
23
CHAP. II.
Secr. 1. Funerals---extravagance and pageantry of an-
tient and modern funerals
these discarded
by the Quakers--plain manner in which they
inter their dead
Sect. 2. Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental
inscriptions--various reasons of their disuse
39
27
of these
VOL. II.
Sect,
Sect. 3. neither do they use mourning garments
reasons why they thus differ from the world
--these reasons further elucidated by .con-
siderations on court-ntourning
Occupations-agriculture declining among the Quakers---
causes and disadvantages of this decline
45
CHAP. IV.
Sect. I. Trade-Quakers view trade as a moral question
-prohibit a variety of trades and dealing:
on this account-various other wholesome re-
gulations concerning it
53
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-
eified and examined
62
CHAP. V.
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
76
CH A P. VI.
Sect. 1. Poorno beggars among the Quakers--manner
of relieving and providing for the poor 89
SECT. 2. Education of the children of the poor provided
for-olservations on the numler of the Qua.
ker-poor--and on their character 94
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
invitation
105
CHAP. I.
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, and
Apostles--Jesus Christ had it without limit
Except a man has a portion of the same Spirit which
Jesus, and the Prophets, and the Apostles had,
he cannot know spiritual things this doc-
trine confirmed by St. Paul-and elucidated
by a comparison between the faculties of men
and of brutes
120
CHAP. III.
Neither, except he has a portion of the same Spirit, can he
know the Scriptures to be of Divine origin,
nor can he spiritually understand them-ob-
jection to this doctrine-reply
.. 131
This Spirit, which has been given to men in different de-
grees, has been given them as a teacher or
guide
a 2
guide in their spiritual concerns--way in
which it teaches
142
CHAP, V,
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
151
CH AP, VI,
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
159
CHAP, VII,
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
178
SECT, 2. This Spirit, then, besides its office of a spiritual
guide, performs that of a Redeemer to men-
redemption outward and inward -- inward
effected by this Spirit
183
SECT. 3. Inward redemption produces a new birth—and
leads to perfection—this inward redemption
possible to all
190
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
world
.