Sect. III.--_Inward redemption produces a new birth--and leads to perfection--This inward redemption possible to all._

Sect. IV--_New birth and perfection more particularly explained-New birth as real from "the spiritual seed of the kingdom" as that of plants and vegetables from their seeds in the natural world--and goes on in the same manner progressively to maturity._

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SECT. I._--Possibility of redemption to all denied by the favours of "Election and Reprobation"--Quaker-refutation of the later doctrine._

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SECT. II._--Quaker refutation continued._

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_Recapitulation of all the doctrines advanced--Objection that the Quakers make every thing of the Spirit and but little of Jesus Christ--Attempt to show that Christians often differ without a just cause--Or that there is no material difference between the creeds of the Quakers and that of the objectors on this subject._

SECT. I._--Ministers of the Gospel--Quakers conceive that the spirit of God alone can qualify for the ministry--Women equally qualified with men--Way in which ministers are called and acknowledged among the Quakers._

SECT. II._--Quaker-ministers, when acknowledged, engage in family visits--Nature of these--and sometimes in missions through England--and sometimes in foreign parts._

_Elders--Their origin and their office--These are not to meddle with the discipline of the church._

SECT I._--Worship--is usually made to consist of prayer and preaching--But neither of these are considered by the Quakers to be effectual without the aid of the spirit--Hence no liturgy or studied form of words among the Quakers--Reputed manner and character of Quaker-preaching--Observations upon these._

SECT. II--_Silent worship--Manner of it--Worship not necessarily connected with words--Advantages of this mode of worship._

SECT. III.--_Quakers discard every thing formal and superstitious from their worship--No consecrated ground--No priest's garments--No psalmody--No one day esteemed by them holier than another--Reasons for these singularities._

_Miscellaneous particularities--Quakers seldom use the words "original sin," or "Trinity," and never "the word of God" for the Scriptures--Believe in the manhood and divinity of Christ--In the resurrection--Their ideas on sanctification and justification._