simple, naked truth which man by his wisdom hath rendered so obscure and mysterious, and by way of counteracting that 'school divinity, which taketh up almost a man's whole lifetime to learn, brings not a whit nearer to God, neither makes any man less wicked or more righteous than he was.' The testimony of the Spirit is throughout insisted upon as 'that alone by which the true knowledge of God hath been, is, and can be only revealed.' The Scriptures are and may be esteemed a secondary rule, subordinate to the Spirit, from which they have all their excellency and certainty . . . according to the Scriptures, the Spirit is the first and principal Leader.' The sixth proposition points out that this certain doctrine thus being received, to wit, that there is an evangelical and saving light and grace in all, the universality of the love and mercy of God towards mankind—both in the death of His beloved Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the manifestation of the light in the heart-is established and confirmed against all the objections of such as deny it.' The proposition Concerning Worship' is a very definite declaration of the Quaker plan. 'All true and acceptable worship to God is offered in the inward and immediate moving and drawing of His own Spirit, which is neither limited to places, times, or persons; and all other worship, 'both praises, prayers, and preachings, which man sets about in his own will, and at his own appointment, which he can both begin and end at his pleasure, do or leave undone, as himself sees meet, whether they be a prescribed form, as a liturgy, or prayers conceived extemporarily, by the natural strength and faculty of the mind, they are all but superstitions, will-worship, and abominable idolatry in the sight of God.' The twelfth proposition speaks of the baptism of infants as a mere human tradition, for which neither precept nor practice is to be found in the Scripture.' 5. 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