a deep impression upon his hearers, whenever he was fully and fairly heard. Many clergymen, as I observed before, in consequence of his powerful preaching, gave up their livings; and constables, who attended the meetings in order to apprehend him, felt themselves disarmed, and went away without attempting to secure his person. As to his life, it was innocent. It is true, indeed, that there were persons, high in civil offices, who, because he addressed the people in public, considered him as a disturber of the peace. But none of these ever pretended to cast a stain on his moral character. He was considered both by friends and enemies as irreproachable in his life. Such was the character of the founder of Quakerism. He was born in July 1624, and died on the 13th of November, 1690, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He had separated himself from the world in order to attend to serious things, as I observed before, at the age of nineteen, so that he he had devoted himself to the exercises and services of religion for no less a period than forty-eight years. A few hours before his death, upon some Friends asking him how he found himself, he replied, "Never heed. All is well. The seed or power of God reigns over all, and over death itself. Blessed be the Lord!" This answer was full of courage, and corresponded with that courage which had been conspicuous in him during life. It contained an evidence, as manifested in his own feelings, of the tranquillity and happiness of his mind, and that the power. and terrors of death had been vanquished in himself. It showed also the ground of his courage and of his confidence. "He was full of assurance," says William Penn, “ that he had triumphed over death, and so much so, even to the last, that death appeared to him hardly worth notice or mention." Thus he departed this life, affording an instance of the truth of those words of the psalmist, "Behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace." VOL. I. C CON SECT. 2. forbidden, as below the dignity of the intel- lect of man, and of his Christian character 23 SECT. 3. as producing an excitement of the passion's SECT. 2. Quakers cannot learn instrumental, on the usual motives of the world-nor consider it as a source of moral improvement, or of solid com- fort to the mind-but are fearful that, if indulged in, it would interfere with the Christian duty of religious retirement . p.45 SECT. 3. Quakers cannot learn vocal, because, on account -and as it professes to reform vice 75 SECT. 3. Contents of the drama objected to-as they hold SECT. 4. Theatre considered by the Quakers to be inju- SECT. 1. Dancing forbidden-light in which this subject has been viewed both by the antients and the moderns-Quakers principally object to it where it is connected with public assemblies— they conceive it productive in this case of a |