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Meetings addressed , are evidently , onl y * in this instance , of the chafracuj or description addressed in the tenth commandment , save that the female heads ot families
are also by compliment under-Stood to be included in the merely masculine movements of the meeting ; of which kind may be considered the issuing of the annual salutation .
To shew the fitness of the associated friends being termed Bible Quakers , take the following extract from their episrle of 179 ® - ** Let us consider , brethren , what is the cause of our dissent from
the prevailing opinions ana practices of the age * Is it not that we rnost surelj believe that our faith is more consistent with the evangelical purity of ihe primitive times | and o ^ ur , ma-npeis les ^ s liable to promote an attachment t (> a world that passetfc away f "
The prevailing * opinions and practices of the age , on the contrary , embalm as it were * preserve , or continue , in one shape or other , the different ceremonies of the primitive Christians , while
Quakers , in renouncing many * ' beggarly elements / ' have rejected the most of the ceremonies , though so many of them cling to the book , v ; r the name of the book Which enjoins the observance of them . Pure Quakerism must
always unequivocally answer Nay to the interrogatory of the epistle of 1796 . JOHN WALKER *
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Quaker Missionary Notice . The following printed notice Was lately circulated at Yarmouth by the Quakers * Jt is communicated to the Monthly Repository >
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for the sake of inquiring how far it is agreeable to the principles of the Friends , and of remarking
that if such a missionary step be not inconsistent with the respectability of the Quakers , the like notification and procedure cannot be unworthy ( as has been sometimes insinuated ) of Unitarian travelling preachers . A . B , Yarmouth ( 6 th Month ) June 18 , 1814 . The Public are respectfully informed that the Society of Friends , by desire
of one of their Ministers , propose holding A Meeting for Worship at the Theatie , to-rnorrow Evening , at Six o ' clock , when the Company of any inclining to-attend will be acceptable .
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& 36 Quaker Missionary Notice . —The Deluge .
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The Deluge . Liverpool , Aug . 2 PSir * I should be glad to see the subject of the deluge , as recorded in the book of Genesis , discussed in your Repository . 'Much has been said and written about the natural evidence for the truth of that phenomenon , resulting from the discovery of marine substances * on the summits of mountains , and also
from the nature of " our lime stone , and other calcareous rocks , formed evidently by subsidence in water . ' * Dr . Collyer , amongst the Calvinists , and the Rev . Jos . Townsend , M * A . of the
Establishment , have treated of the subject . The latter writer , who is Rector of Pe wsey ^ Wilts ^ has lately published an expensive Quarto , * in which he attempts to establish the
* The Character of Moses established for Veracity as an Historian recording Events from the Creation to the Deluge * 4 to . 3 l . 3 s . boards . Lotigman , 1813 *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1814, page 536, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2444/page/12/
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