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The London Friends' Meetings; Showing the Rise of the Society of Friends in London, Its Progress and the Development of Its Discipline with Accounts o

The London Friends' Meetings; Showing the Rise of the Society of Friends in London, Its Progress and the Development of Its Discipline with Accounts o

Beck, William

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ISBN10: 1150298499
ISBN13: 9781150298493
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 156
Weight: 0.64
Height: 0.33 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1869. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. The Two-weeks Meeting-six-Weeks Meeting--And Meeting Of Twelve. The Two-Weeks Meeting. This meeting which was also called the Fortnightly Meeting was earlier in the time of its origin than any other of the London Meetings for Discipline, excepting only those periodic conferences among the Friends in the ministry, held from the beginning in the house of Gerrard Roberts, and developing into the so-called Morning Meeting. It was established and continued many years before the London district was sub-divided into several Monthly Meetings, and exercised a care over the whole area, which it only gradually relinquished as these Monthly Meetings increased in their efficiency. It forms a connecting link between the time when the Society was in the first stages of its ingathering, and those succeeding periods wherein efforts for consolidation and regulation were the conspicuous features. Unfortunately no minute-books of this Two-Weeks Meeting exist earlier than 1671, the previous documents having, as is supposed, been either destroyed by fire or lost; but there remain independent testimonies which show both its early origin and the nature and importance of its duties. William Crouch, one of the early London Friends, mentions in his Memoirs that this meeting was commenced soon after the taking of the Bull and Mouth [1655], and was held in an upper room on those premises, and that it was composed of men Friends, who met there to consult about and consider of the affairs of truth, and to communicate to each other what the Lord opened in them for the promotion thereof; and also to make such provision to supply all necessary occasions, which the service of the Church might require. Edward Burrough, in the paper issued by him in 1662, from which quotations have...

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