Friends, do not judge one another in meetings, ye that do minister in the meetings; for your so doing hath hurt the people both within and without and yourselves under their judgment ye have brought. And your judging one another in the meetings hath emboldened others to quarrel and judge you also in the meetings. And this hath been all out of order and the church order also. Now if you have anything to say to any, stay till the meeting be done, and then speak to them in private between yourselves, and do not lay open another’s weakness. For that is weakness and not wisdom to do so. For your judging one another in meetings hath almost destroyed some Friends and distracted them. And this for want of love that beareth all things; and therefore let it be amended. No more, but my love.
(Works, VII., pp. 114, 115.)
Recrimination.
Friends, go not into the aggravating part to strive with it, lest ye do hurt to your souls and run into the same nature. For patience must get the victory and answers to that of God in every one which will bring every one from the contrary.
(Works, VII., p. 109.)
Strife and Debate.
Where any goeth into the contention he is from the pure. For where any goeth into the contention if anything by him before hath been begotten then that doth get atop and spoil that which was begotten and quench his own prophesy. So if he be not subjected with the power in the particular which would arise into the strife, that is dangerous.
(C. J., I., p. 319.)
Boasting and Vapouring.
None must be light, out, wild. For the seed of God that is weighty and brings solid and into the wisdom of God by which is the wisdom of the creation known. Now that which runs into the imaginations and that part standing in which the imaginations come up, the pure not quite come up through to rule and reign, then that will run out, then that will glory; and so he hath spoiled that which opened to him and will boast and vapour, which is for condemnation.