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.