The following are Fletcher's notes of the meeting held on May 12th, 1767:
"1. How far is it proper to preach against particular sins, and to enforce particular duties, and how to do this in a gospel-like manner.
"Answer. Very proper to stated congregations. Many convinced of sin by it; many kept decent by it. Believers themselves made watchful. Preach so as not to encourage pharisees.
"2. Whether we are to preach the law, and morality, and why?
"Answer. Yes: three reasons. (1) To inform believers; (2) To convince false moralists; (3) To stop the mouth of the adversaries, and confound antinomians.
"3. How far is it proper to mention and improve particular cases, and the experience of particular people, in funeral sermons and other discourses, to try to awaken the careless?
"Answer. Extraordinary cases known to all may be improved—with tenderness, wisdom, avoiding the appearance of sentencing any one, and saying what we say of them in Scripture words, and with suppositions.
"4. (Digression.) Whether charity and duty oblige us to say over all the dead, 'we hope they rest in Christ.' (Settled.) (A hardship) and may be omitted because not insisted on as absolutely indispensable.
"6. What's the proper length of a sermon for hearers and speaker?