made a practice of meeting
together to worship, without
any Hireling, or set Minister,
we felt our Minds easy to attend
with them; which we accordingly
did; and altho’ they conformed
to our Manner, yet we had
reason to believe Silence was
not very acceptable to them; nor
their Minds sensible of true
inward Stillness and Quietude
in worship; their manner
being, for some or other of
them, either Man or woman,
to be almost Constantly em-
ployed in preaching, praying,
singing of Psalms or some
other outward and visible Acts
of