A Quaker Book
of Discipline
A Collection of Christian & Brotherly
Advices Given forth from time to time
By the Yearly-Meetings of Friends For
Pennsylvania & New-Jersey, Held
alternately at Burlington & Philadelphia
Alphabetically digested under
Proper Heads
Manuscript volume, ca. 1763
Manuscript Division
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This collection of "advices" for the behavior of American Quakers
was a compilation of guidelines covering every aspect of Quaker
life--from individual "conduct and conversation" to proper management
of meetings. The guidelines were periodically issued from 1682 through
1763 by the highest institutional authority of American Quakerism,
the "Yearly Meeting." The compilation may have been made by the
Meeting itself for local distribution. Its purpose was to establish
"Decency and comely Order in all our Meetings of Worship & Business,
as well as orderly Walking, Honesty, & Plainness in the particular
Members of our Society."
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