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Title: A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume I (of 3)
Release Date: March 4, 2005 [eBook #15260]
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Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends
_Amusements distinguishable into useful and hurtful--the latter specified and forbidden_.
SECT. I.--_Games of chance forbidden--history of the origin of some of these_.
SECT. II.--_Forbidden as below the dignity of the intellect of man, and of his christian character_.
SECT. III.--_As producing an excitement of the passions, unfavourable to religious impressions--historical anecdotes of this excitement_.
SECT. IV.--_As tending to produce, by the introduction of habits of gaming, an alteration in the moral character_.
SECT. I.--_Music forbidden--instrumental innocent in itself, but greatly abused--the use of it almost inseparable from its abuse at the present day_.
SECT. II.--_Quakers cannot learn instrumental on the usual motives of the world--nor consider it as a source of moral improvement, or of solid comfort to the mind--but are fearful that, if indulged in, it would interfere with the Christian duty of religious retirement_.
SECT III.--_Quakers cannot learn vocal, because, on account of its articulative powers, it is capable of becoming detrimental to morals--its tendency to this, as discoverable by an analysis of different classes of songs_.
SECT IV.--_The preceding the arguments of the early Quaker--but the new state of music has produced others--these explained_.
SECT V.--_An objection stated to the different arguments of the Quakers on this subject--their reply_.