A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends

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 t...

SECT. III.--_Quakers conceive it was not the baptism of John which Jesus included in the Great Commission, when he ordered his disciples to go into all nations, and to teach the...

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 I._--Worship--is usually made to consist of prayer and preaching--But neither of these are considered by the Quakers to be effectual without the aid of the spirit--Hence no...

SECT. I._--Ministers of the Gospel--Quakers conceive that the spirit of God alone can qualify for the ministry--Women equally qualified with men--Way in which ministers are call...

_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 di...

_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 el...

_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 prophe...

_Miscellaneous particularities--Quakers seldom use the words "original sin," or "Trinity," and never "the word of God" for the Scriptures--Believe in the manhood and divinity of...

_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...