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[s] 11.2 [Brethren and Friends,] 
We say these things, not to discourage proper influences against sin, but to secure such reformation as we believe is scriptural and will be permanent.
Pastoral Letter of the General Association of Congregational Ministers, Massachusetts, 1837
Brethren and Friends,