A PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM, VOLUME I
Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends
by
THOMAS CLARKSON, M.A.
1806.
[Illustration: THOMAS CLARKSON, A.M.]
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME.
INTRODUCTION
PREFATORY ARRANGEMENTS AND REMARKS
MORAL EDUCATION.
CHAPTER I.
_Amusements distinguishable into useful and hurtful--the latter specified and forbidden_.
CHAPTER II.
SECT. I.--_Games of chance forbidden--history of the origin of some of these_.
SECT. II.--_Forbidden as below the dignity of the intellect of man, and of his christian character_.
SECT. III.--_As producing an excitement of the passions, unfavourable to religious impressions--historical anecdotes of this excitement_.
SECT. IV.--_As tending to produce, by the introduction of habits of gaming, an alteration in the moral character_.
CHAPTER III.
SECT. I.--_Music forbidden--instrumental innocent in itself, but greatly abused--the use of it almost inseparable from its abuse at the present day_.
SECT. II.--_Quakers cannot learn instrumental on the usual motives of the world--nor consider it as a source of moral improvement, or of solid comfort to the mind--but are fearful that, if indulged in, it would interfere with the Christian duty of religious retirement_.
SECT III.--_Quakers cannot learn vocal, because, on account of its articulative powers, it is capable of becoming detrimental to morals--its tendency to this, as discoverable by an analysis of different classes of songs_.
SECT IV.--_The preceding the arguments of the early Quaker--but the new state of music has produced others--these explained_.
SECT V.--_An objection stated to the different arguments of the Quakers on this subject--their reply_.
CHAPTER IV.
SECT I.--_The Theatre forbidden--short history of its origin--and of its state and progress_.
SECT II.--_Manner of the drama objected to by the Quakers--as it personates the characters of others--and it professes to reform vice_.
SECT III.--_Contents of the drama objected to--as they hold our false sentiments--and weaken the sinews of morality_.
SECT IV.--_Theater considered by the Quakers to be injurious to the happiness of man, as it disqualifies him for the pleasure of religion_.
SECT V.--_To be injurious to the happiness of man, as it disqualifies him for domestic enjoyments_.
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 by Clarkson
- 2: Outlines of the discipline of the Quakers
- 3: Against that of the names of the days and months
- 4: That I should be affording to the Quakers themselves
- 5: Quakerism is of itself a pure system
- 6: At Broughton in Leicestershire
- 7: He came into the vale of Beevor again
- 8: From this great period of his ministry
- 9: To have been providentially led
- 10: Had continued to be true Quakers
- 11: For he was no sooner out of gaol
- 12: Prefatory arrangementsandremarks
- 13: Or the moral education of the Quakers
- 14: Moral education of the quakers
- 15: Which the Quakers themselves give
- 16: By a previous agreement upon a monied stake
- 17: By a previous agreement upon a monied stake
- 18: The first argument of the Quakers
- 19: A monied stake is usually proposed
- 20: We seldom see a noisy or an irascible Quaker
- 21: Habitual gamesters regard neither their own health
- 22: Professed gamesters sacrifice every thing
- 23: Now all this long application is of a sedentary nature
- 24: Would interfere with the duty recommended by the Quakers
- 25: For vocal music consists of songs
- 26: Now the Quakers are of opinion
- 27: While the Quakers hold such sentiments
- 28: As I have shewn the Quakers to disapprove
- 29: That though the Quakers have adduced arguments
- 30: Preserves it from the charge of an immoral origin
- 31: These publications shewed the sentiments of the Quakers
- 32: The Quakers have many reasons to give
- 33: That they inculcate false morals
- 34: The licentious court of Charles the second
- 35: Now it is contended by the Quakers
- 36: Disqualify for the pleasures of religion
- 37: Not for the enjoyment of domestic society
- 38: Quakers conceive they can sanction no amusements
- 39: And that things were shewn there
- 40: As the Quakers have thought it right to prohibit music
- 41: Cannot view dancing abstractedly
- 42: That they had been nearly two hours under one dresser only
- 43: These become envious of the beauty of the former
- 44: They do not prevent inward dissatisfaction
- 45: As dancing is viewed abstractedly
- 46: We cannot therefore condemn fictitious biography
- 47: Hence it is that this indisposition is generated
- 48: Those also who attend these diversions
- 49: For a christian was a renovated man
- 50: These principles continued to actuate all true Quakers
- 51: Even the proselytes of the gate
- 52: Nor was the observance of it confined to these Proselytes
- 53: With every apostate or wicked man
- 54: Are of opinion that the renovated man must have
- 55: Not by prohibitory checks and guards
- 56: Prohibitions therefore may hinder elevated feeling
- 57: In adverting to the Old Testament
- 58: If attempted abstractedly or alone
- 59: By adopting the amusements prohibited by the Quakers
- 60: That a Quaker prostitute or a Quaker criminal is unknown
- 61: Had been both admonished and disowned
- 62: When men err in their moral practice
- 63: He gave them also meetings for dicipline of their own
- 64: That the discipline of the Quakers
- 65: No one knowing but the admonishing persons
- 66: Footnote 18 Women cannot disown
- 67: Or of the quantum of moral character
- 68: But that after admonition has been begun
- 69: Of penal laws might be founded
- 70: Procured from the legislature of Pennsylvania
- 71: From the gaol to the community
- 72: The different congregations of the Quakers
- 73: Reclaimed by these visitations
- 74: And transact their monthly business
- 75: Nearly the same custom obtains at the quarterly
- 76: Appointed by the monthly meeting
- 77: And answered by all the deputies
- 78: In any of the quarterly meetings
- 79: No ostensible minority or majority
- 80: And as conveying to them admonitions on various subjects
- 81: It takes cognizance of the actions of Quakers to Quakers
- 82: Though disowned by the Quakers
- 83: Peculiar customs of the quakers
- 84: Bucklers brode and sweardes longe
- 85: The drab consisted of the white wool undyed
- 86: To adorn themselves in modest apparel
- 87: Before they could become Quakers in spirit
- 88: Yet in its improvements of cloathing
- 89: That they are justly chargeable with a preciseness
- 90: Basil reduced the objects of cloathing to two
- 91: A deviation from simplicity of heart
- 92: Principles of the Quaker constitution itself
- 93: Footnote 37 The Indians denominated Penn
- 94: They had been taken before they became Quakers
- 95: Was in the use of the pronoun thou
- 96: On which it had been defended by Stubbs and Furley
- 97: So that the word you in the plural number
- 98: As remnants of ancient flattery
- 99: Footnote 39 Paulinus flourished in the year 460
- 100: To be called Rabbi Rabbi of men
- 101: It took this seventh station in the kalendar of Romulus
- 102: But the Quakers are never baptised
- 103: To whom the Quakers address themselves
- 104: Paul knew that Festus had done his duty
- 105: And the orator 53 Tertullus says
- 106: That though it followed the successors of Octavius
- 107: And an impropriety in falsehood
- 108: Advantages and disadvantages of the system of the Quaker
- 109: If the Quakers have religious scruples concerning them
- 110: Judge Glynn upon this grew angry
- 111: Knowing this custom of the Quakers
- 112: Soon force out of sight all ideas of uncourteousness
- 113: The subjects of conversation among the Quakers differ
- 114: That Quakers are more upon their guard
- 115: Are not congenial with the Quaker system
- 116: We usually find them substituting thanksgiving for oblation
- 117: It may be repeated unseasonably
- 118: For thanksgiving is an act of devotion
- 119: The Quakers have rejected it for various reasons
- 120: No toast can better coincide than this
- 121: Thus toast being urged after toast
- 122: Toasts both illiberal and indelicate
- 123: Is known in the Quaker companies