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This volume contains "advices" from the annual meetings of the Society of Friends for Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Most of the resolutions concern administrative and procedural matters. The volume also includes an essay about the history and beliefs of the Society of Friends.

This volume, entitled "A Collection of Christian & Brotherly Advices Given forth from Time to Time by the Yearly Meeting of Friends for Pennsylvania & New Jersey Held alternately at Burlington & Philadelphia," contains 171 pages of resolutions ("advices") adopted between 1682 and 1762, mostly in the early 1700s. The copied passages, which follow a brief introduction, are collected by subject and arranged alphabetically (see the complete list of subjects below). Most of the entries contain about a page of discussion dealing with administrative or procedural issues and Quaker beliefs. Advices about "Indians" largely concern the exchange of rum or other intoxicating liquors; those on "Negroes or Slaves" relate to the morality (and immorality) of the slave trade and slaveholding. Some entries are cross-referenced within the volume. The advices are followed by an address on Quaker history and beliefs entitled "The Ancient Testimony..." (pp. 174-191), delivered at the yearly meeting in 1722 by council member and former Philadelphia mayor Samuel Preston.