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of them.-Ministers not to be paid for their labours, or preach by contract.

OF DIVINE WORSHIP.

Indispensable duty publicly to assemble to worship the Living God.-Qualification to worship to be waited for.-No well-founded objection can be raised against silent meetings.Scripture instances of waiting upon God.Friends not alone in their belief that worship is a spiritual act, performed in silence.

OF PRAYER AND SPIRITUAL SINGING TO
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Prayer should not be neglected.-Scarcely an act less understood, and none more abused than prayer. Christ the only proper instructor.He instructed the disciples.--The first sentence of the compendium he taught, requires a preparation. The pharisees and their prayers condemned. True prayer is an entrance into, and concurrence with, the Divine Mind.-Singing of hymns and spiritual songs not of necessity vocal. Singing that is acceptable to the Almighty, must proceed from that which is pure in the heart, even from the Divine Life.-The use of instruments of music, or artificial singing in the worship of God, not warranted in the New Testament.

OF THE DOCTRINE OF FAITH

It is a living principle, which no human means can beget in us.-By it the elders obtained a good report Until we have come to this living principle, the soul remains subject to the fallen nature, and cannot serve God acceptably, or be united to him.-Wheresoever this living faith is, there will be works corresponding with it.

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OF SANCTIFICATION AND JUSTIFICATION 47 Entire justification must be because of entire sanctification.

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THE society of Friends believe that the Messiah spoken of by the prophets, and expected by the Jews, did, in the fulness of time, appear; that Jesus Christ, the son of God, born of the virgin Mary, was and is this promised Messiah; the same concerning whom the four evangelists have given testimony, and who was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, under the sentence of Pontius Pilate; and that he rose again, agreeably to the Scriptures. That he died for, and in consequence of the sins of mankind; that in his death was an offering for the sins of the whole world; and that he is the only mediator between God and man. They also believe in

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