WITH A SUMMARY RELATION OF THE FORMER DISPENSATIONS OF GOD IN THE WORLD; BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION. BY WILLIAM PENN . AS UNKNOWN, AND YET WELL KNOWN.  2 COR. VI. 9. TWELFTH EDITION . MANCHESTER: Printed by Harrison and Crosfield , Market Street . sold by HARVEY & DARTON, GRACECHURCH STREET, LONDON. 1834....

Reader, this following account of the people called Quakers, &c. was written in the fear and love of God: first, as a standing testimony to that ever blessed truth in the inward parts, with which God, in my youthful time, visited my soul, and for the sense and love of which I was made willing, in no ordinary way, to relinquish the honours and interests of the world.  Secondly, as a testimony for that despised people, that God has in his great mercy gathered and united by his own blessed

Containing a brief account of divers dispensations of God in the world , to the time he was pleased to raise this despised people , called Quakers . Divers have been the dispensations of God since the creation of the world, unto the sons of men; but the great end of all of them, has been the renown of his own excellent name in the creation and restoration of man: man, the emblem of himself, as a God on earth, and the glory of all his works.  The world began with innocency; all was then good that

Of the Qualifications of their Ministry .  Eleven marks that it is Christian . I.  They were changed men themselves, before they went about to change others.  Their hearts were rent, as well as their garments; and they knew the power and work of God upon them.  And this was seen by the great alteration it made, and their stricter course of life, and more godly conversation that immediately followed upon it. II.  They went not forth, or preached, in their own time or will, but in the will of God;

Of the discipline and practice of this people , as a religious society .  The church power they own and exercise , and that which they reject and condemn : with the method of their proceedings against erring and disorderly persons . This people increasing daily both in town and country, a holy care fell upon some of the elders among them, for the benefit and service of the church.  And the first business in their view, after the example of the primitive saints, was the exercise of charity; to su

Of the first instrument or person by whom God was pleased to gather this people into the way they profess .  His name George Fox : his many excellent qualifications; showing a divine , and not a human power to have been their original in him .  His troubles and sufferings both from without and within .  His end and triumph . I am now come to the third head or branch of my preface, viz. the instrumental author.  For it is natural for some to say, Well, here is the people and work, but where and w

Containing five several exhortations : first , general , reminding this people of their primitive integrity and simplicity .  Secondly , in particular , to the ministry .  Thirdly , to the young convinced .  Fourthly , to the children of Friends .  Fifthly , to those that are yet strangers to this people and way , to whom this book , and that which it was preface to , in its former edition , may come .  All the several exhortations accommodated to their several states and conditions : that all m

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