ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The approbation process, as demonstrated through the early Quaker meeting minutes, exemplified the enormous amount of time devoted to the discipline as well as the many particular difficulties and trials the early Quakers faced while enforcing the correct marriage approbation process. The book examines how the Quaker marriage approbation system put into practice various aspects of early Quaker theology and spirituality. The marriage approbation discipline was not only shaped by the early Quakers' desire to maintain endogamous marriages, but also to set apart the early Quakers from the false church as the one and only True Church, and to demonstrate their life in a restored direct relationship with God. The marriage approbation and marital relationship of Fox and Fell demonstrated a highly apocalyptic event, as their marital union was generally perceived as emblematic of the marriage of the Lamb and the New Jerusalem.
