(Works, VIII., p. 309.)
Friends ... keep to your proper, sound, plain language.
(Works, VIII., p. 85.)
Now dear Friends I have sent an answer to that which William Rogers hath wrote together full of lies calumnies and false reports under pretence of queries, but are charges from his rattle head to please rattle children with.
(Bristol MSS., Vol. 20.)
All Friends everywhere take heed of printing anything more than ye are required of the Lord God. And all Friends everywhere take heed of wandering up and down about needless occasions for there is danger of getting into the careless words out of seriousness weightiness and savouriness.
(Works, VII., p. 128.)
Representatives.
Now concerning those that do go to the Quarterly Meeting as representatives, they must be substantial friends that can give a testimony of your sufferings and how things are amongst you in every particular meeting. So that none that are raw or weak, that are not able to give a testimony of the affairs of the church and truth may go on behalf of the particular meetings to the quarterly meetings, but may be nursed up in your monthly meetings and there fitted for the Lord’s service.
(Epistles, No. 264, 1669.)