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    ttwful reverence towards God becomes our dependent condition , we profess ourselves Quakers ; that it produces due respect , to our fellows , Panadelphians .

    Might not associations now be formed , in the latter years of the King , George the Third , in the realms under his government , of Friends , professing themselves to be Panadelphian Quakers .

    Panadelphian Quakers profess to hold the doctrine , that all human creatures are equal before the Lord ; that the due sense of the presence of the Lord , when happily felt , must cover t he creature with referent awe ^ and be a prolection from evil . : w .. * ¦

    The sense of the . Divine presence is to be felt amid the varied business of life . It protecteth from evil . -We feel checked by it , when tempted to do to others as we would not that we were done unto .

    We feel peace , when we yield to the divine law felt in # the human heart , of doing to others as we would they should do unto us . It is profitable to retire from the ordinary ) pursuits of the world , to commune with our own heart ; to be still .

    When collectively assembled , under such an exercise , it may be seasonable that a brother or a sister , clothed with awful reverence , utter words of counsel to the

    assembl y ~ : or break forth in outward expression of filial adoration , orthanlcs , or supplication , towards the Supreme Being . Under such exercisesthe

    hum-, bled speaker will not dare to adopt the studied arts of eloquence , in speech or gesture ; it will be becoming in the congregation to be still- ,. ¦ . ; . <> - .. ...

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    If individuals , or the wjiole-as * . sembly , be brought under a similar exercise , a consentaneous ex * - pression of it , may , possibly , appear in the person , or be heard in the utterance of the sympathising individuals .

    It would be a departure in the association , from pure Quakerism , to collectively a'iopt forms on such occasions , of assuming certain attitudes , or of dressing or undressing the head , feet , or other parts of

    the body . It would be a departure from Panadelphism , to attempt to restrain individuals from falling in to-such attitudes , or yielding such utterance as msty feel to themselves expressive of what may be going on in their own minds .

    The Divine Spirit niay be felt by the assembly , without the utterance of words . The members may feel the occasion ^ under the solemnity of silence , rendered a blessing to their dependent spirits . The association cannot hold

    itself accountable for the expressions of the speaker . They may be , even doctrinally , erroneous ; while , under the misstatement , as to the letter , they may be utterances , or effusions , of a sincere and tender piety , as

    to the spirit . Under this persuasion , we may , charitably and with edification , feel the occasion not unprofitable . Each individual can retire from .

    or continue in the place of the assembly , us may seem to him meet : his retiring , or staying , not having any reference to what is going on in the place of the assembly ; it has reference , only to what is go *

    ing on in his own mind . The simple principle , [ fear of the Lord ] not unaptly expressed in the English language , by th «

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    Mr * Walker on a Society of Panadelphian Quakers . 5 & 1

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1813, page 511, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2431/page/23/