CHAP. IV.
_Address--all nations have used ceremonies of address--George Fox bears
his testimony against those in use in his own times--sufferings of the
Quakers on this account--makes no exception in favor of royalty--his
dispute with Judge Glynn--modern Quakers follow his example--use no
ceremonies even to majesty--various reasons for their disuse of them._
All nations have been in the habit of using outward gestures or
ceremonies, as marks of affection, obeisance or respect. And these
outward ceremonies have been different from one another, so much so,
that those, which have been adjudged to be suitable emblems of certain
affections or dispositions of the mind among one people, would have been
considered as very improper emblems of the same, and would have been
even thought ridiculous by another, yet all nations have supposed, that
they employed the most rational modes for these purposes. And indeed,
there were probably none of these outward gestures and ceremonies,
which, in their beginning, would not have admitted of a reasonable
defence while they continued to convey to the minds of those, who
adopted them, the objects, for which they were intended, or while those,
who used them, persevered with sincerity in their use, little or no
objection could be made to them by the moralist.
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