Note 180 — Chapter XIII · QUAKERTOWN.

In Mr. Bowna’s account of his conversation with John Rogers (1703) he states that John Rogers said his Society “admitted any one who wanted information concerning the meaning of any text to put the question, and it was then expounded and spoken to as they understood it; and one being admitted to show his dissent with his reasons for it: ‘Thus,’ said he, ‘we improve our youth in Scriptural knowledge.’ I asked him if they did not sometimes carry their differences in sentiment too far, to their hurt? He acknowledged there was danger in doing so, but they guarded against it as much as they could.”