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

CHAPTER XII.

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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 liturgy or studied form of words among the Quakers--Reputed manner and character of Quaker-preaching--Observations upon these._

SECT. II--_Silent worship--Manner of it--Worship not necessarily connected with words--Advantages of this mode of worship._

SECT. III.--_Quakers discard every thing formal and superstitious from their worship--No consecrated ground--No priest's garments--No psalmody--No one day esteemed by them holier than another--Reasons for these singularities._