A serious call in Christian love to all people, to turn to the spirit of Christ in themselves, that they may come to have a right understanding of... [Two lines from Scripture text]

"WHAT is here presented to thy View, is written in great Love; and I desire that the Lord, by his Holy Spirit, may give thee a right Understanding of the Truths herein laid down. Our Principles and Doctrine has been very much misrepresented, and many of our Friends Words and Writings have been wrested and mis-construed by many, who wanted Charity which is the Bond of Perfection: The Apostle has excellently described it, in his first Epistle to the Corinthians, he saith, Charity suffereth long, * and is kind; Charity envieth not; Charity vaunteth not it self, is not puffed up, doth not behave it self unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no Evil, rejoiceth not in Iniquity, but rejoiceth in the Truth, Oh, that it might prevail amongst the Children of Men universally, that so there might be no envying one another! Charity is so far from speaking Evil, or doing Evil, that it thinketh no Evil: Although, saith the Apostle,* I bestow all my Goods to feed the Poor, and give my Body to be..."
This is an edition of a classical book first published in the eighteenth century.