Chapter XVI

Sect. I.--_Two suppers, the one instituted by Moses, the other by Jesus Christ--The first called the passover--Ancient and modern manner of its celebration._

Sect. II.--_Second, enjoined by Jesus at Capernaum--This wholly, of a spiritual nature--Way in which this may be enjoyed._

Sect. III.--_Quakers say that Jesus instituted no new supper distinct from that of the passover, and which was to render null and void that enjoined at Capernaum, at a rite of the Christian church--No such institution to be collected from St. Matthew, St. Mark, or St. John._

Sect. IV.--_Nor from St. Luke--St. Luke only says, that all future passovers of the Disciples with Christ were to be spiritual--but if, as Jews, they could not all at once abdicate the passover to which they had been educated, they were to celebrate it with a new meaning--But no acknowledged permission of it to others._

Sect. V.--_Nor from St. Paul--St. Paul only says that the passover, as spiritualized by Jesus, was allowed to his disciples, or to the Jewish converts, who could not all at once lay aside their prejudices concerning it, but that it was to last only for a time--Different opinions about this time--That of the Quakers concerning it._

Sect. VI.--_Had a new supper, distinct from that of the passover, been intended as a ceremonial of the Christian church, it would have been commanded to others besides the disciples, and its duration would not have been limited--Reasons from St. Paul, to show that he himself did not probably consider it as a Christian ordinance--Whereas the supper enjoined at Capernaum, was to be eternal--and universal--and an essential with all Christians._

PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF THE _QUAKERS_.

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VOL. II B.

PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF THE QUAKERS.

CHAP. I.