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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
CHAP. I.
105
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-
hum, and Moses, and the Prophets, and
Apostles-Jesus Christ had it without limit
Unless a man has
CHAP. II.
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
CHAP. III.
120
Neither, unless 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
CHAP. IV.
131
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
..
142
CHAP. V.
This Spirit may be considered as the primary and infal-
lille 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
CHAP. VI.
.. 151
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
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
SECT. 4. New birth and perfection more particularly
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-
world-and
goes on in the same manner pro-
gressively to maturity
CHAP. VIII.
202
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 .
CHAP. IX.
220
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 dif-
ference between the creed of the Quakers and
that of the objectors on this subject 235
CHAP. X..
SECT. 1. Ministers of the Gospel-Quakers conceive that
the Spirit of God alone can qualify for the
ministry-women equally qualified with men
247
SECT. 2. -way in which ministers are called and ac-
knowledged among the Quakers—Quaker-
ministers, when acknowledged, engage in
family-visits-nature of these-and some-
times in missions through England—and
sometimes in foreign parts
CHAP. XI.
263
Elders-their crigin and their office-these are not to
meddle with the discipline of the Church. 270
CHAP.
CHAP. XII.
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 with-
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 ..
292
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
CHAP. XIII.
Miscellaneous particularities-Quakers seldom use the
words " 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
CHAP. XIV.
313
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.
322
SECT. 1. Two baptisms, that of John, and of Christ
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
347
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
baptism
353
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
360
SECT. 5. Practice of Jesus and the Apostles a confirma-
tion of this opinion
CHAP. XVI.
370
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
395
SECT.