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A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 by Thomas Clarkson
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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.

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