A Portraiture Of Quakerism Volume 1 Taken From A View Of The Ed

Chapter 1

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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_.