SECT. IV.--_The principles of this discipline applicable to the
discipline of larger societies, or to the criminal codes of
states--beautiful example in Pennsylvania_.
CHAPTER II.
_Monthly court or meeting of the Quakers for the purposes of their
discipline--nature and manner of the business transacted there_.
CHAPTER III.
_Quarterly court or meeting for the same purposes--nature and manner of
the business there_.
CHAPTER IV.
_Annual court or meeting for the same purposes--nature and manner of the
business there--striking peculiarities in this manner--character of this
discipline or government_.
CHAPTER V.
_Excommunication or disowning--nature of disowning as a punishment_.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS.
CHAPTER I.
SECT. I.--_Dress--extravagance of the dress of the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries--plain manner in which the grave and religious were
then habited--the Quakers sprang out of these_.
SECT. II.--_Quakers carried with them their plain dresses into their new
society--extravagance of the world continuing, they defined the objects
of dress as a Christian people--at length incorporated it into their
discipline--hence their present dress is only a less deviation from that
of their ancestors, than that of other people_.
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