ion or affection--This an appearance only.

CHAPTER XV.

Sixth is evasiveness in speech--No foundation for this trait.

CHAPTER XVI. Seventh is shyness--This an appearance only.

CHAPTER XVII.

Eighth is a disregard of truth--Inconsistency of the imputation of this
trait.

CHAPTER XVIII.

SECT. I. Character of the Quaker women--Women share in the virtues of
the men, but do not partake of all their reputed imperfections.

SECT. II. Quaker women have a public character--Influence of this upon
their minds.

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MISCELLANEOUS PARTICULARS.

CHAPTER I.

Quakers a happy people--Subordinate causes of this happiness.

CHAPTER II.

Good, which the Quakers have done as a society upon earth.

CHAPTER III.

Quakers in England on the decline in point of numbers, as a religious
society--Certain causes of this decline.

CHAPTER IV.

Supposed remedies for the diminution of some of these causes--These of
various kinds--One of these a superior education--Supposed effect of
this education.

CHAPTER V.

_Component parts of this education--Favourable state of the society for
the admission of it,_

CHAPTER VI.

_Various arguments against it--These examined,_

CHAPTER VII.

_Conclusory remarks, as they relate to those who may have had thoughts
of leaving the society,_

CHAPTER VIII.

_Conclusory remarks, as they relate to those who may be called the
world,_

GREAT TENETS
OF THE
QUAKERS.

CHAP. I.

_Civil government--First tenet is, that governors have no right to
interfere with the governed on the subject of Religion--and that if they
interfere, and insist upon things which the conscience disapproves, the
governed ought to refuse a compliance with them, and to bear patiently
all the penalties annexed to such a refusal, but never to resist the
governors by violence on this or any other account._

The Quakers hold four principles, which I shall distinguish by the name
of Great Tenets. These are considered as arising out of the implied or
positive injunctions of Christianity, and were insisted upon as
essentials on the formation of the society. The first of these is on the
subject of Civil Government.

Civil Government had existed long before the appearance of Christianity
in the world. Legislators since that era, as they have imbibed its
spirit, so they have introduced this spirit more or less into their
respective codes. But, no nation has ev