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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

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INDEX.

ACCOUNTS, to be frequently fettled, pages 122, 146.
Acknowledgments, how to be received, 99.
Adminiftrators. See Orphans, Wills, &c. 107.
Apparel. See Plainnefs, 113.

APPEALS, mode of proceeding in, 1.

Apprentices. See Parents and Guardians, 111.
ARBITRATION, 3. Friends refufing to fubmit differen-
ces to arbitration, to be teftified againft, 4. Method
of proceeding to be obferved in arbitration, 7. Not
to trouble miniftering friends with, 4. See Law, 54.
Arms. See War, 147.

Auditors, to settle accounts, to be appointed by each
monthly-meeting, 117. See Stock, 139.

Awards, friends refufing to comply with, to be disowned, 5
Affistance, of fuperior meetings, to be applied for and
afforded, 44.

Bankruptcy. See Trade, 142.

Backbiting to be avoided, 34.
Bible. See Scriptures, 132.
Births. See Records, 125.

Books. Regulations refpecting the printing, 9, and
distribution of, 10. Advice against reading improper
books, 9. Advice to booksellers, 10. Book of dif-
cipline to be present at meetings of business, and to
be read when folid friends advife to it, 101. Books
of record to have alphabets, 126.

BURIALS, 11. See Records, 125. Burial-Grounds, 12.
Bufinefs, those who launch into, beyond their ability to
manage in the truth, to be timely laboured with, 143.

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CERTIFICATES, fuch as remove to have them, 127.
of minifters who travel, to be called for,
82. To be granted to minifters with caution, 85.
Certificate in the cafe of marriage, 62, 64. See
Records, 125. See Removals and Settlements, 127.
Charities. See Records, 125. See Wills, &c. 107.
See Liberality to the Poor, 56.

CHILDREN, 13. To be reftrained, 48. To be brought
up in a diligent attendance of meetings, 73. See
Books, 9. Education, 47. Plainnefs, 113. Records,
125. Removals, 127. Schools, 130. Scriptures,
132. To be admitted members, at the difcretion of
monthly-meetings, 15.

Chrift. Faith in him exhorted to, &c. 73. Books tend-
ing to leffen the true faith in Chrift to be difcouraged,9.
Committee, to have the care of marriages, 63.
CIVIL GOVERNMENT, 16. Advice to friends refpecting
their conduct towards thofe in authority, 16. Advice
against accepting offices, 19......and electing friends
thereto, 20.

Clerk, of the yearly-meeting, how to be chofen, 154.
Commerce. See Trade, 142.

Collections. See Stock, 139.

CONDUCT and CONVERSATION. General advices relat-
ing to, 21.

Controverfies. See Appeals, 1. Arbitrations, 3.
CONVINCED PERSONS, to be vifited, 23. How to be
initiated, 23.

Correfpondence. See Meeting for Sufferings, 70.
COVETOUSNESS, 25. Such as covet to be rich warned
against, 26.

Cuftoms, Duties, and Excife, friends cautioned against
the non-payment of, 18. The unfaithful to be testi-
fied againft, 19. See Queries, 121.

DAYS and TIMES, 27. Advice against the fuperftitious
obfervance of, and giving improper names to, 29.

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Dealing, mode of, 97-99. See Discipline, &c. 40.
Debts. Those deficient in the payment of, to be
laboured with, 122. No diftinction to be made in
the payment of, whether by endorfement, or other-
wife, 146.

DEFAMATION and DETRACTION, 33. Mode of pro-
ceeding against perfons charged with, 35. Defama-
tion not fubject to be arbitrated, until the injury be
proved, 8. Defamatory writings to be discouraged, 36.
See Ministers and Elders, 83.

Denied Perfons, to ftand disowned till reinstated, or
the denial reversed by a fuperior meeting, 97. How
to be reinstated, if removed, 99.

DIFFERENCES. Advices refpecting, 38. See Appeals, 1.
Arbitration, 3. Covetoufnefs, 25.

DISCIPLINE, and Meetings for Difcipline, 40. See
Monthly-Meetings, 97. Right Discipline the Lord's
work, and to be done as in his fight, 41.

Diverfions, 52. See Conduct, &c. 21. Education, 47.
Parents and Guardians, 109. Plainnefs, 113.

Drefs. See Plainness, 113. Parents, &c. 109. Youth, 155.
DONATIONS and SUBSCRIPTIONS, of whom to be receiv→
ed, 46. How to be applied, 108.

Drowsiness, and a lukewarm Spirit, &c. exhortation
against, 74.

EDUCATION, 47. Of poor friends' children to be under

the care of monthly and quarterly-meetings, 117.
See Parents and Guardians, 109. Plainnefs, 113.
Poor, 116. Schools, 130.

Elders. Monthly-meetings to appoint faithful friends

as Elders, and their duty, 78. To watch over the
flock, 78. To help and inform the weak, 84. Ad-
vice to Elders, 86. See Ministers and Elders, 78.
Queries of, 95. Monthly-Meetings, 97.
Executors. Excused from referring matters, not their
own property, to arbitration, 6. To take invento-
ries feasonably, 107.

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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.
Fafts. See Days and Times, 27.
FREE-MASONS, 51.

GAMING and DIVERSIONS, 52. See Youth, 155.
Government. See Civil Government, 16.
Goods, thofe that run, &c. to be dealt with, 18.
Grave-Stones. See Burials, II.

Gravity of deportment exhorted to, 74.

Guardians. See Parents and Guardians, 109. Guard-
ians who confent to, or encourage marriage contrary
to our rules, to be dealt with, 66. See Marriage, 59.
Wills, &c. 107.

HIRELING MINISTRY, and their Worship-Houses.--
Friends not to contribute to the fupport thereof, 53.

Impoft Duties and Excife, to be paid, 18. Such as
have fcruples against, how to conduct, 18.
Impoftors, pretending to the miniftry, to be discouraged,82
Immoral tranfgreffors, to be dealt with, 21.

Infidelity, books promoting, to be guarded against, 9.
Indecent behaviour, in meetings, difcouraged, 22.
Intemperance, advised against, 21.

Inns. See Conduct and Conversation, 21.

Language. See Plainnefs, 113. Parents and Guard-
ians, 109. Days and Times, 27.

Languages. Friends' children to be instructed in the
modern, 47.

LAW, 54.

Friends not to fue one another at law, 5.-

Exceptions, 6, 54. See Sufferings, 140.

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