His affirmation will be no longer taken instead of his oath.

If a poor man, he is no longer exempt from the militia, if drawn by submitting to three months imprisonment; nor is he entitled to that comfortable maintenance, in case of necessity, which the society provide for their own poor.
To these considerations it may not perhaps be superfluous to add, that if he continues to mix with the members of his own society, he will occasionally find circumstances arising, which will remind him of his former state: and if he transfers his friendship to others, he will feel awkward and uneasy, and out of his element, till he has made his temper, his opinions, and his manners, harmonize with those of his new associates of the world.
PECULIAR CUSTOMS OF THE QUAKERS.
CHAP.

I.SECT.

I.
_Dress--Quakers distinguished by their dress from others--great extravagance in dress in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries--this extravagance had reached the clergy--but religious individuals kept to their antient dresses--the dress which the men of this description wore in those days--dress of the women of this description also--George Fox and the Quakers springing out of these, carried their plain habits with them into their new society._ I have now explained, in a very ample manner, the moral education and discipline of the Quakers.

I shall proceed to the explanation of such customs, as seem peculiar to them as a society of christians.
The dress of the Quakers is the first custom of this nature, that I purpose to notice.