The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3), by Thomas Clarkson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3) Author: Thomas Clarkson Release Date: March 4, 2005 [eBook #15261] Language: English ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM, VOLUME II (OF 3)*** E-text prepared by Carlo Traverso, Graeme Mackreth, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr. A PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM, VOLUME II Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends by THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A. Author of Several Essays on the Slave Trade New York: Published by Samuel Stansbury, No 111, Water-Street 1806 CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. PECULIAR CUSTOMS. CHAPTER I. SECT. I.—Marriage—Regulation and example of George Fox, relative to Marriage—Present regulations, and manner of the celebration of it among the Quakers. SECT. II.—Those who marry out of the society, are disowned—Various reasons for such a measure—Objection to it— Reply. SECT III.—But the disowned may ...
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Title: A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume II (of 3)
Author: Thomas Clarkson
Release Date: March 4, 2005 [eBook #15261]
Language: English
***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM, VOLUME II (OF 3)***
E-text prepared by Carlo Traverso, Graeme Mackreth, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
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A PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM, VOLUME II
Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles
and Character, of the Society of Friends
by
THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A.
Author of Several Essays on the Slave Trade
New York: Published by Samuel Stansbury, No 111, Water-Street
1806
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS.
CHAPTER I.
SECT. I.—Marriage—Regulation and example of George Fox, relative to Marriage—Present regulations, and manner of
the celebration of it among the Quakers.
SECT. II.—Those who marry out of the society, are disowned—Various reasons for such a measure—Objection to it—
Reply.
SECT III.—But the disowned may be restored to membership—Terms of their restoration—these terms censured—
Reply.
SECT IV.—More women disowned on this account than men—Probable causes of this difference of number.
CHAPTER II.SECT I.—Funerals—Extravagance and pageantry of ancient and modern funerals—These discarded by the Quakers—
Plain manner in which they inter their dead.
SECT II.—Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental inscriptions
—Various reasons of their disuse of these.
SECT. III.—Neither do they use mourning garments—Reasons why they thus differ from the world—These reasons
farther elucidated by considerations on Court-mourning.
CHAPTER III.
Occupations—Agriculture declining among the Quakers—Causes and disadvantages of this decline.
CHAPTER IV.
SECT. I.—Trade—Quakers view trade as a moral question—Prohibit a variety of trades and dealings on this account
—various other wholesome regulations concerning it.
SECT. II.—But though the Quakers thus prohibit many trades, they are found in some which are considered
objectionable by the world—These specified and examined.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER VI.
SECT. I.—Poor—No beggars among the Quakers—Manner of relieving and providing for the poor.
SECT. II.—Education of the children of the poor provided for—Observations on the number of the Quaker-poor—and
on their character.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.
CHAPTER I.
God has given to all, besides an intellectual, a spiritual understanding—Some have had a greater portion of this spirit
than others, such as Abraham, and Moses, and the prophets, and Apostles—Jesus Christ had it without limit or
measure.
CHAPTER II.
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 doctrine confirmed by St. Paul—And elucidated by a comparison between the faculties of men
and of brutes.
CHAPTER 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—Objection to this doctrine-Reply.
CHAPTER IV.
This spirit, which has been thus given to men in different degrees, has been given them as a teacher or guide in their
spiritual concerns—Way in which it teaches.
CHAPTER V.
This spirit may be considered as the primary and infallible guide—and the scriptures but a secondary means of
instruction—but the Quakers do not undervalue the latter on this account—Their opinion concerning them.
CHAPTER 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.
CHAPTER VII.
Sect. I.—And as it has been universally to men, so it has been given them sufficiently—Those who resist it, quench it
—Those who attend to it, are in the way of redemption.
Sect. II.—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.
Sect. III.—Inward redemption produces a new birth—and leads to perfection—This inward redemption possible to all.
Sect. IV—New birth and perfection more particularly explained-New birth as real from "the spiritual seed of the
kingdom" as that of plants and vegetables from their seeds in the natural world—and goes on in the same manner
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.