Excerpt from A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Society Called Quakers, Within the Quarterly Meeting for London and Middlesex, Against Thomas Foster, for Openly Professing Their Primitive Doctrines Concerning the Unity of God IF the proceedings detailed in the ensuing pages, were of no importance except as they relate to my self, it would be wholly unnecessary to publish them. I am content under their operation. But I could not remain silent, believing that, if the principles on which these proceedings are founded were generally acted upon, it would tend to the exclusion of many from a Society, for the welfare of which I am still solicitous, and even a small minority might discard and disown the far greater part of its members, as unsound in the faith. This, I am aware, is only matter of opinion, and I state it as such. It has, however, been derived from the information which attention to the subject, for more than thirty years, has afibrded. Within that period, also, I have known persons in every station in the Society, ministers, elders and overseers, openly and decidedly advocating the doctrine of the strict Unityand essential placability of God, without any cen sure from the church. Hence I concluded these were slill the doctrines of the Society, as I, in early life, considered them to be those of its most eminent writers, Obscure and mystical as some parts Of their works undoubtedly are. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.