MORAL EDUCATION, DISCIPLINE, PECULIAR AND CHARACTER, OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS. BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A. AUTHOR OF SEVERAL ESSAYS ON THE SUBJECT OF THE SLAVE-TRADE. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. London : PRINTED BY R. TAYLOR AND CO., SHOE-LANE, FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, AND ORME, PATERNOSTER-ROW. Secr. 1. Marriage-regulations and example of George For relative to marriage-present regulations and manner of the celebration of it among Sect. 2. Those who marry out of the Society are dis- owned-various reasons for such a measurem objection to it-reply ship_terms of their restoration—these terms censured-reply Sect. 4. —more women disowned on this account than CHAP. II. Sect. 1. Funerals extravagance and pageantry of an- tient and modern funerals—these discarded by the Quakers-plain manner in which they inter their dead 27 Secr. 2. Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental inscriptions--various reasons of their disuse of these 32 VOL, II. Sect, Sect. 3. --neither do they use mourning garments reasons why they thus differ from the world CIIAP. III. CILAP. IV. Secr. 1. Trade-Quakers view trade as a moral question -prohibit a variety of trades and dealings on this account-various other wholesome re- Sect. 2. --but though the Quakers thus prohibit many trades, they are found in some which are con- CILAP. V. Settlement of differences—alistain from duels—and also from law—have recourse to arbitration, their rules concerning arbitration—an account CILAP. VI. Sect. 1. Poor--no beggars among the Quakers—manner of relieving and providing for the poor · 89 SECT. 2. Education of the children of the poor provided for-observations on the numler of the Qua- ker-poor-and on their character 94 Introduction. Invitation to a perusul of this part of the work--the necessity of humility and charity in religion, on account of the limited powers 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- CILAP. 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 doc- trine confirmed by St. Paulmand elucidated Neither, ercept he has a portion of the same Spirit, can he know the Scriptures to be of Divine origin, |
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