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Holy Ghost to which the apostle John thus exhorts, *"Let us love one another; for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God."

Typical forms may be made as doors of entrance into outward and visible churches, and as marks and pledges of fellowship amongst men; but they are not such to the spiritual community of the invisible church of Christ, the members whereof, "as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God. by Jesus Christ."

WATER BAPTISM,

AND

THE LORD'S SUPPER:

AS

CHRISTIAN RITES.

EXTRACTED FROM A LATE WORK

ENTITLED THE

PORTRAITURE OF QUAKERISM.

BY THOMAS CLARKSON, M. A.,

Author of several Essays on the subject of the Slave Trade..

NEW-YORK:

PUBLISHED BY THE NEW-YORK YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS..

MAHLON DAY, PRINTER, 374 PEARL STREET.

ON

WATER BAPTISM,

THE LORD'S SUPPER, &c.

SECTION I.

Quakers reject Baptism and the Lord's Supper-much censured for itIndulgence solicited for them on account of the difficulties connected with these subjects—Christian religion spiritual-Jewish types to be abolished-Different meanings of the word "baptise"-Disputes concerning the mode of baptism-concerning also the nature and constitution of the Supper-concerning also the time and manner of its celebration-This indulgence also proper, because the Quakers give it to others who differ from them, as a body, on the subject of religion.

THE Quakers, among other particularities, reject the application of Water-baptism, and the administration of the Sacrament of the Supper, as Christian rites.

These ordinances have been considered by many, as so essentially interwoven with Christianity, that the members of this Society, by rejecting the use of them, have been denied to be Christians.

But, whatever may be the difference of opinion between the world and the Quakers upon these subjects, great indulgence is due to the latter on this occasion. People have received the ordinances in question from their ancestors. They have been brought up to the use of them.