Another installment of the 1806 Philadelphia YM discipline:
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              PRIESTS' WAGES; OR HIRELING MINISTRY

     LET us keep in remembrance, that it is under the immediate
teaching and influence of the holy Spirit that all acceptable
worship is performed, and all true gospel ministry supplied; that
this pure and powerful influence, in vessels sanctified and pre-
pared by the divine hand, is the essential qualification to that
work; and that as the gift is divine, the service is freely and
faithfully to be discharged, without any view to reward from man.
     And it is advised that where any of our members are
so regardless of this testimony as to contribute to the support
of an hireling ministry, and vindicate such conduct, that they be
tenderly laboured with to convince them of their error, but if
this prove ineffectual, and they persist in their unfaithfulness,
the monthly meetings to which they belong should proceed to
declare our disunity with them, such conduct being opposed to our
testimony for the free ministry of the gospel, which is "without
money and without price."--1757.
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Licia Kuenning
Friends of Truth/Glenside Friends Meeting/Quaker Heritage Press