A

NARRATIVE AND EXPOSITION

OF THE LATE PROCEEDINGS OF

NEW ENGLAND YEARLY MEETING,

WITH SOME OF ITS

SUBORDINATE MEETINGS & THEIR COMMITTEES,

IN RELATION TO

THE DOCTRINAL CONTROVERSY

NOW EXISTING IN THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS:

PREFACED BY A CONCISE VIEW OF THE CHURCH, SHOWING THE
OCCASION OF ITS APOSTACY,

BOTH UNDER THE FORMER AND PRESENT DISPENSATIONS.

WITH AN APPENDIX.

EDITED FROM RECORDS KEPT, FROM TIME TO TIME, OF THOSE
PROCEEDINGS, AND INTERSPERSED WITH OCCASIONAL
REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS.

Addressed to the Members of the said Yearly Meeting.

BY JOHN WILBUR.

"For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteous-
ness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment
delivered unto them."-2 PETER ii. 21.

"Men talk as if we ought to speak leniently of the faults of a man who de-
lights us by his genius or his talents. This precisely is the man whose faults
we should be prompt to mark, because he is the man whose faults are the
most seducing to the world."-DYMOND, 186-7.

NEW-YORK:

PIERCY & REED, PRINTERS, IX SPRUCE STREET

C8324.304