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E X T R A C T S

from a

DECLARATION

of the

YEARLY MEETING OF FRIENDS,

held in

Philadelphia,

Respecting the proceedings of those who have lately separated from the Society.[1]



At a Yearly Meeting of Friends held in Philadelphia, by adjournments from the 21st to the 28th, inclusive, of the Fourth Month, 1828.

IN taking a view of the situation of our Religious Society, and of the various exercises and close trials, which those who love our Lord Jesus Christ have had to pass through, we believe it important to preserve a faithful narrative of the schism which has taken place among some under our name, and to trace the subtle workings of that spirit of unbelief and insubordination which has been the primary cause of it,—a spirit which has been privily brought in among us, under the specious appearance of a refined spirituality, but which has blinded the understandings of many, and led them, step by step, into an open denial of the

  1. Philadelphia, printed 1828,—Reprinted, Bristol, 1831.

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