Account of the People Called Shakers - Their Faith, Doctrines, and Practice, Exemplified in the Life, Conversations, and Experience of the Author During the Time That He Belonged to the Society; To Which Is Affixed a History of Their R... #261639

AS a-full and impartial account of the p<0ple called; Shakers, has never'yét been prefented to the publick, although the attention and inquiry of a/large portion of the community, has been excited to an unufual degree, by their novel appear ance and unexpec'fted increafe, the author of the folloyving work, has bee'n prevailed upon to give the world the refult-of his ex perience and inveftigation among them. He is confident, that their rife, tenets, and pracftices are more iingnlar (the prefent flare afifthe world, and general information Of mankind being taken'into confideratlon) than thofe of any religious feel which has taken its rife in the chriflian world fin'ce the firfi promtilga tion of the gofpel.