C general be faid to come under the notice of. friends, overfeers, and meetings. And as it hath been experienced, that in those meetings great comfort and fatisfaction have been received and enjoyed, when the members have attended them in awe, humility and love, with no other view than the honour of God, and the help and affistance one of another, this meeting doth, in brotherly love, exhort all friends carefully to gather in uprightness and fingleness of heart, suitable to our calling, and the dignity of that Power which will preside and govern in all our meetings, as we meekly abide under its holy influence. This will divest us of partiality and ftiffness of opinion, and all high thoughts of ourselves, and lead into patience, and condefcenfion, according to that declaration of our bleffed Lord, "He that is greatest among you, fhall be your fervant." It is to be observed, that the dates at the end of the minutes and advices, denote the years in which they were issued by the yearly-meeting from whence they were taken, The book is printed with blank leaves, for the purpose of making future additions, which are to be inferted in the manner which may be directed by the yearly-meeting. No other additions are to be made INDEX. ACCOUNTS, to be frequently fettled, pages 122, 146. APPEALS, mode of proceeding in, 1. Apprentices. See Parents and Guardians, 111. Auditors, to settle accounts, to be appointed by each Awards, friends refufing to comply with, to be disowned, 5 Bankruptcy. See Trade, 142. Backbiting to be avoided, 34. Books. Regulations refpecting the printing, 9, and BURIALS, 11. See Records, 125. Burial-Grounds, 12. CERTIFICATES, fuch as remove to have them, 127. CHILDREN, 13. To be reftrained, 48. To be brought Chrift. Faith in him exhorted to, &c. 73. Books tend- Clerk, of the yearly-meeting, how to be chofen, 154. Collections. See Stock, 139. CONDUCT and CONVERSATION. General advices relat- Controverfies. See Appeals, 1. Arbitrations, 3. Correfpondence. See Meeting for Sufferings, 70. Cuftoms, Duties, and Excife, friends cautioned against DAYS and TIMES, 27. Advice against the fuperftitious Dealing, mode of, 97-99. See Discipline, &c. 40. DEFAMATION and DETRACTION, 33. Mode of pro- Denied Perfons, to ftand disowned till reinstated, or DIFFERENCES. Advices refpecting, 38. See Appeals, 1. DISCIPLINE, and Meetings for Difcipline, 40. See Diverfions, 52. See Conduct, &c. 21. Education, 47. Drefs. See Plainness, 113. Parents, &c. 109. Youth, 155. Drowsiness, and a lukewarm Spirit, &c. exhortation EDUCATION, 47. Of poor friends' children to be under the care of monthly and quarterly-meetings, 117. Elders. Monthly-meetings to appoint faithful friends as Elders, and their duty, 78. To watch over the 2 Faith, in Chrift, exhortation to, 73. FAMILIES, 49. Monthly-meetings to appoint fuitable friends to vifit families, 49, 100. gether to wait on the Lord, 110. To be called to- Fashions. See Conduct and Converfation, 21. Educa- tion, 47. Parents and Guardians, 109. Plainnefs, 113. GAMING and DIVERSIONS, 52. See Youth, 155. Gravity of deportment exhorted to, 74. Guardians. See Parents and Guardians, 109. Guard- HIRELING MINISTRY, and their Worship-Houses.-- Impoft Duties and Excife, to be paid, 18. Such as Infidelity, books promoting, to be guarded against, 9. Inns. See Conduct and Conversation, 21. Language. See Plainnefs, 113. Parents and Guard- Languages. Friends' children to be instructed in the LAW, 54. Friends not to fue one another at law, 5.- Exceptions, 6, 54. See Sufferings, 140. |