A Portraiture of Quakerism : Taken From a View of the Moral Education, Discipline, Peculiar Customs, Religious Principles, Political And Civil Economy, And Character, of the Society of Friends
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The members of this Society differ from other Christians in the rejection of psalmody, as a service of the Church. If persons feel themselves so influenced in their private devotions, "that they can sing," as the apostle says, "with the Spirit and the understandingf," or can "sing and make melody in their hearts to the LordJ;;" the Quakers have no objection to this as an act of worship. But they conceive that music and psalmody, though they might have been a(la])te(l to the ceremonial religion ...of the Jews, are not congenial with the new dispensation that has followed : because this dispensa- ■••■• Spiritual officor-s, such as Elders and Overseers, sit at the upper end of the nicctin^-liouse. t 1 Cor. xiv. lo. j Ephos. v. 19. RELIGION. 283 tion requires, that all Avorsliip should be performed in Spirit and in Truth. It requires that no act of religion should take place, unless the Spirit influenees an utterance, and that no words should be used, except the_y are in unision -with the heart.
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