SECT.  III.—­Examined by the morality of the New—­these employments, if resorted to as diversions, pronounced, in both cases, to be a breach of a moral law.

CHAPTER VIII.

Objections to the preceding system, which includes these different prohibitions, as a system of moral education.

CHAPTER IX.

SECT.  I.—­Reply of the Quakers to these objections.

SECT.  II.—­Further reply of the Quakers on the same subject.

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DISCIPLINE.

CHAPTER I.

SECT.  I.—­Outlines of the discipline of the Quakers.

SECT.  II.—­Manner of the administration of this discipline.

SECT.  III.—­Charges usually brought against the administration of it—­observations in answer in these charges.

SECT.  IV.—­The principles of this discipline applicable to the discipline of larger societies, or to the criminal codes of states—­beautiful example in Pennsylvania.

CHAPTER II.

Monthly court or meeting of the Quakers for the purposes of their discipline—­nature and manner of the business transacted there.

CHAPTER III.

Quarterly court or meeting for the same purposes—­nature and manner of the business there.

CHAPTER IV.

Annual court or meeting for the same purposes—­nature and manner of the business there—­striking peculiarities in this manner—­character of this discipline or government.

CHAPTER V.

Excommunication or disowning—­nature of disowning as a punishment.

PECULIAR CUSTOMS.

CHAPTER I.

SECT.  I.—­Dress—­extravagance of the dress of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries—­plain manner in which the grave and religious were then habited—­the Quakers sprang out of these.

SECT.  II.—­Quakers carried with them their plain dresses into their new society—­extravagance of the world continuing, they defined the objects of dress as a Christian people—­at length incorporated it into their discipline—­hence their present dress is only a less deviation from that of their ancestors, than that of other people.

SECT.  III.—­Objections of the world to the Quaker dress—­those examined—­a comparison between the language of Quakerism and of Christianity on this subject—­opinion of the early Christians upon it.

CHAPTER II.