I. Are meetings for worship and discipline kept up, and do Friends
attend them duly, and at the time appointed; and do they avoid all
unbecoming behavieur therein?
II. Is there among you any growth in the truth; and hath any
convincement appeared since last year?
III. Are Friends preserved in love towards each other; if differences
arise, is due care taken speedily to end them; and are Friends careful
to avoid and discourage tale-bearing and detraction?
IV. Do Friends endeavour by example and precept to train up their
children, servants, and all under their core, in a religions life and
conversation, consistent with our Christian profession, in the frequent
reading of the holy scriptures, and in plainness of speech, behaviour
and apparel?
V. Are Friends just in their dealings and punctual in fulfilling their
engagements; and are they annually advised carefully to inspect the
state of their affairs once in the year?
VI. Are Friends careful to avoid all vain sports and places of
diversion, gaming, all unnecessary frequenting of taverns, and other
public houses, excess in drinking, and other intemperance?
VII. Do Friends bear a faithful and Christian testimony against
receiving and paying tythes, priests demands, and those called
church-rates?
VIII.
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