A PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM, VOLUME II
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. Author of Several Essays on the Slave Trade
New York: Published by Samuel Stansbury, No 111, Water-Street
1806
CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS.
CHAPTER I.
SECT. I.--Marriage--Regulation and example of George Fox, relative to Marriage--Present regulations, and manner of the celebration of it among the Quakers.
SECT. II.--Those who marry out of the society, are disowned--Various reasons for such a measure--Objection to it--Reply.
SECT III.--But the disowned may be restored to membership--Terms of their restoration--these terms censured--Reply.
SECT IV.--More women disowned on this account than men--Probable causes of this difference of number.
CHAPTER II.
SECT I.--Funerals--Extravagance and pageantry of ancient and modern funerals--These discarded by the Quakers--Plain manner in which they inter their dead.
SECT II.--Quakers use no tomb-stones, nor monumental inscriptions --Various reasons of their disuse of these.
SECT. III.--Neither do they use mourning garments--Reasons why they thus differ from the world--These reasons farther elucidated by considerations on Court-mourning.
CHAPTER III.
Occupations--Agriculture declining among the Quakers--Causes and disadvantages of this decline.
CHAPTER IV.
SECT. I.--_Trade--Quakers view trade as a moral question--Prohibit a variety of trades and dealings on this account--various other wholesome regulations concerning it._
SECT. II.--_But though the Quakers thus prohibit many trades, they are found in some which are considered objectionable by the world--These specified and examined._
CHAPTER V.
_Settlement of differences--Abstain from duels-and also from law--Have recourse to arbitration--Their rules concerning arbitration--An account of an Arbitration Society at Newcastle upon Tyne, on Quaker-principles._
CHAPTER VI.
SECT. I.--_Poor--No beggars among the Quakers--Manner of relieving and providing for the poor._
SECT. II.--_Education of the children of the poor provided for--Observations on the number of the Quaker-poor--and on their character._
RELIGION.
INTRODUCTION.
_Invitation to a perusal of this part of the work--The necessity of humility and charity in religion on account of the limited powers of the human understanding--Object of this invitation._
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._
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Clarkson
- 2: As a primary and infallible guide
- 3: Baptizing in the name of the father
- 4: Peculiar customs of the quakers
- 5: As a religious or renovated people
- 6: By the reports of the deputation
- 7: It is a religious tenet of the Quakers
- 8: And the plainness of the Quaker language
- 9: In their restoration of disowned persons to membership
- 10: Disowned for marrying out of the society
- 11: Which may be called the pageantry of funerals
- 12: The Quakers have discarded all parade at their funerals
- 13: That the Quakers are sometimes buried near their relations
- 14: The Quakers do not approve of such memorials
- 15: It is not contended here by the Quakers
- 16: Orders mourning for the deceased for a given time
- 17: The Quakers are domestic characters
- 18: To which rural retirement is peculiarly favourable
- 19: The Quakers began to consider this subject
- 20: Who are accessory to smuggling
- 21: Where a man is disowned and restored
- 22: As following an objectionable trade
- 23: That no Quaker can be in trade
- 24: The Quakers reject all such ornaments
- 25: From Gilbert Latey I may pass to John Woolman
- 26: That circumstances must unavoidably arise
- 27: When arbitration is determined on
- 28: In the town of Newcastle upon Tyne
- 29: That there are no poor Quakers
- 30: And the monthly meeting approves
- 31: To look out for persons who may be thus straitened
- 32: For it is in the essence of the Quaker discipline
- 33: To attempt to proselyte to Quakerism
- 34: Before these pious visitations
- 35: And holding no communion with the Quakers
- 36: A spiritual intercourse with his maker
- 37: And which the Evangelists and Apostles
- 38: Or that the Almighty not only gave to man reason
- 39: As that he should understand spiritual things
- 40: Know spiritualty that the scriptures are of divine authority
- 41: May examine the holy scriptures
- 42: And infallible interpreter of the holy scriptures
- 43: For the letter of the scripture
- 44: The Quakers conceive to be plain
- 45: But by the intervention only of outward and foreign objects
- 46: And as arising without any motion of the will of man
- 47: The scriptures are subordinate or secondary
- 48: And others by wilful mutilation
- 49: An approved writer among the Quakers
- 50: As described by Thomas Beaven and the venerable John Hales
- 51: With respect to the Heathens or Gentiles
- 52: With one hand thou wouldest touch the East
- 53: These principles of the Scythians
- 54: According to the opinion of the Quakers
- 55: Have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts
- 56: Expiates for sins that are past
- 57: This redemption may be called outward
- 58: Or the inward redemption of man
- 59: Shall be exempt from the dominion of carnal lusts
- 60: Gell preached before King Charles the first on Ephesians 4
- 61: As having experienced this inward redemption also
- 62: As it comes from the incorruptible seed of God
- 63: 65 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth
- 64: Are said to be 79 spiritually strong
- 65: They cannot experience this inward redemption
- 66: The Quakers have attempted to answer the objections
- 67: Who is considered to 88 intimate
- 68: That the instruments were foreknown
- 69: And to lead out the Israelites
- 70: Notwithstanding their election
- 71: That therefore Ishmael and Esau
- 72: And continue in unrighteousness and unbelief
- 73: I shall now recapitulate in few words
- 74: In the scheme of his redemption
- 75: Or containing the fullness of the godhead
- 76: And also if the Quakers only allow
- 77: Be essential qualifications for this office
- 78: Paul 113 'How shall they preach
- 79: Against this doctrine of the Quakers
- 80: All of whom prophesied at Caesarea
- 81: Paul also greets Priscilla and Aquila
- 82: And quarterly meetings of the district
- 83: But before their own quarterly meeting
- 84: The Quakers allow neither ministers nor elders
- 85: They use no liturgy or form of prayer
- 86: Against the preaching of the Quakers
- 87: It bloweth not only where it listeth
- 88: That the spirit of Christ dwelleth in them
- 89: Who are candidates for holy orders
- 90: Without the intervention of a word
- 91: His vocal prayer then consisted only of one petition
- 92: Quakers reject every thing formal
- 93: But they conceive that music and psalmody
- 94: In the estimation of the Quakers
- 95: The Quakers are remarkably careful
- 96: That of three persons in the Trinity
- 97: Between sanctification and justification
- 98: Baptismal washings and purifications
- 99: The passover could have had but little meaning to him
- 100: Made some alterations in the ingredients of the Eucharist
- 101: How believers sacramentally receive Christ's body and blood
- 102: And girded himself after that
- 103: At least the proselytes of the covenant
- 104: Baptism therefore was a Jewish ordinance
- 105: In allusion to the same baptism
- 106: For John truly baptized with water
- 107: That he only is truly baptized
- 108: When the antetype or substance became apparent
- 109: When any of the Apostles baptized
- 110: He that believeth and is baptized
- 111: Until ye be endued with power from on high
- 112: How came the Apostles to baptize
- 113: That circumcision and baptism uniformly went together
- 114: That I baptized none of you but Crispus and Gaius
- 115: But he not only never baptized
- 116: Retained the festival of unleavened bread
- 117: A large passover cake of unleavened bread
- 118: And say This sort of unleavened bread
- 119: When he addressed the multitude at Capernaum
- 120: It is the spirit that quickeneth
- 121: Is that heavenly manna on which the Patriarchs feasted
- 122: When he celebrated the passover
- 123: They could not relinquish the passover
- 124: But may celebrate the passover again
- 125: They could not relinquish the passover
- 126: If they chose to celebrate the passover
- 127: Are of opinion that the passover
- 128: Distinct from that of the passover
- 129: Leusden et Schaaf lordoni butavorum