SECT.  V.—­Practice of Jesus and the Apostles a confirmation of this opinion.

CHAPTER XVI.

Sect.  I.—­Two suppers, the one instituted by Moses, the other by Jesus Christ—­The first called the passover—­Ancient and modern manner of its celebration.

Sect.  II.—­Second, enjoined by Jesus at Capernaum—­This wholly, of a spiritual nature—­Way in which this may be enjoyed.

Sect.  III.—­Quakers say that Jesus instituted no new supper distinct from that of the passover, and which was to render null and void that enjoined at Capernaum, at a rite of the Christian church—­No such institution to be collected from St. Matthew, St. Mark, or St. John.

Sect.  IV.—­Nor from St. Luke—­St. Luke only says, that all future passovers of the Disciples with Christ were to be spiritual—­but if, as Jews, they could not all at once abdicate the passover to which they had been educated, they were to celebrate it with a new meaning—­But no acknowledged permission of it to others.

Sect.  V.—­Nor from St. Paul—­St. Paul only says that the passover, as spiritualized by Jesus, was allowed to his disciples, or to the Jewish converts, who could not all at once lay aside their prejudices concerning it, but that it was to last only for a time—­Different opinions about this time—­That of the Quakers concerning it.

Sect.  VI.—­Had a new supper, distinct from that of the passover, been intended as a ceremonial of the Christian church, it would have been commanded to others besides the disciples, and its duration would not have been limited—­Reasons from St. Paul, to show that he himself did not probably consider it as a Christian ordinance—­Whereas the supper enjoined at Capernaum, was to be eternal—­and universal—­and an essential with all Christians.

PECULIAR CUSTOMS
OF THE
QUAKERS.

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VOL.  II B.

PECULIAR CUSTOMS
OF THE
QUAKERS.

CHAP.  I.

SECTION I.

Marriage—­Quakers differ in many respects from others, on the subject of Marriage—­George Fox introduced Regulations concerning it—­Protested against the usual manner of the celebration of it—­Gave an example of what he recommended—­Present regulations of the Quakers on this subject.

In the continuation of the Customs of the Quakers, a subject which I purpose to resume in the present volume, I shall begin with that of Marriage.

The Quakers differ from others in many of their regulations concerning this custom.  They differ also in the manner of the celebration of it.  And, as they differ in these respects, so they experience generally a different result.  The Quakers, as a married, may be said to be a happy, people.  Hence the detailers of scandal, have rarely had it in their power to promulgate a Quaker adultery.  Nor have the lawyers had an opportunity in our public courts of proclaiming a Quaker divorce.