We have had the advantage too of having their contents frequently and publicly repeated into our ears.

And yet, knowing what is right, we cannot pursue it.

We go off, on the other hand, against our better knowledge, into the road to evil.

Now, it was the opinion of George Fox, that something might be done to counteract this infirmity of human nature, or to make a man keep up to the precepts which he believed to have been divinely inspired, or, in other words, that a system of Discipline might be devised, for regulating, exciting, and preserving the conduct of a Christian.
This system he at length completed, and, as he believed, with the divine aid, and introduced it into the society with the approbation of those who belonged to it.
The great principle, upon which he founded it, was, that every christian was bound to watch over another for his good.

This principle included two ideas.