_Quakers reject baptism and the Lord's supper--Indulgence solicited for them on account of the difficulties connected with these subjects--These difficulties explained._
SECT. I.--_Two baptisms, that of John and of Christ--That of John was by water--and a Jewish ordinance--John the prophet left under the law._
SECT. II.--_Baptism of Christ was by the Spirit--This the baptism of the Gospel--Authorities on which this distinction between the two is founded._
SECT. III.--_Quakers conceive it was not the baptism of John which Jesus included in the Great Commission, when he ordered his disciples to go into all nations, and to teach them, baptizing in the name of the father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost--This shown from expressions taken from St. Peter and St. Paul--and from the object and nature of this baptism._
SECT. IV.--_But that it was the baptism of Christ--This shown from a critical examination of the words in the commission itself--And from the commission, as explained by St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. Paul._
SECT. V.--_Practice of Jesus and the Apostles a confirmation of this opinion._
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._