They were suggested, most of them, by George Fox, but were brought into the discipline, at different times, by his successors.
I shall now consider each of these prohibitions separately, and I shall give all the reasons, which the Quakers themselves give, why, as a society of Christians, they have, thought it right to issue and enforce them.
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I.
_Games of chance--Quakers forbid cards, dice, and other similar amusements--also, concerns in lotteries--and certain transactions in the stocks--they forbid also all wagers, and speculations by a monied stake--the peculiar wisdom of the latter prohibition, as collected from the history of the origin of some of the amusements of the times_.
When we consider the depravity of heart, and the misery and ruin, that are frequently connected with gaming, it would be strange indeed, if the Quakers, as highly professing Christians, had not endeavoured to extirpate it from their own body.
No people, in fact, have taken more or more effectual measures for its suppression.

They have proscribed the use of all games of chance, and of all games of skill, that are connected with chance in any manner.

Hence _cards_, _dice_, _horse-racing_, _cock-fighting_, and all the amusements, which come under this definition, are forbidden.
But as there are certain transactions, independently of these amusements, which are equally connected with hazard, and which individuals might convert into the means of moral depravity and temporal ruin, they have forbidden these also, by including them under the appellation of gaming.
Of this description are concerns in the lottery, from which all Quakers are advised to refrain.