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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