The first will consist of men, who rigidly follow the rules of the society, and are as exemplary as the very best of the members.

The second will consist of those, who we members according to the letter, but not according to the spirit, and who are content with walking in the shadow, that follows the substance of the body.

Those of the first class will do justice, and they will have on equal influence with any.

Those of the second, whatever may be their riches, or whatever they may say, are seldom if ever attended to in the administration of the discipline.
From hence it will appear, that if there be any partiality in the administration of this institution, it will consist principally in this, that a rich man may be suffered in particular cases, to go longer without admonition than a poorer member; but that after admonition has been begun, justice will be impartially administered; and that the charges of a preference, where disowning is concerned, has no solid foundation for its support.
SECT.

IV.
_Three great principles discoverable in the discipline, as hitherto explained--these applicable to the discipline of larger societies, or to the criminal codes of states--lamentable, that as Christian principles, they have not been admitted into our own--Quakers, as far as they have had influence in legislation, have adopted them--exertions of William Penn--Legislature of Pennsylvania as example to other countries in this particular._ I find it almost impossible to proceed to the great courts or meetings of the Quakers, which I had allotted for my next subject, without stopping a while to make a few observations on the principles of that part of the discipline, which I have now explained.
It may be observed, first, that the great object of this part of the discipline is the reformation of the offending person: secondly, that the means of effecting this object consists of religious instruction or advice: and thirdly, that no pains are to be spared, and no time to be limited, for the trial of these means, or, in other words, that nothing is to be left undone, while there is a hope that the offender may be reclaimed.