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_.

SECT. III.--_Objections of the world to the Quaker dress--those examined--a comparison between the language of Quakerism and of Christianity on this subject--opinion of the early Christians upon it._