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Title: A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers

Author: William Penn

Release Date: September 25, 2006 [eBook #19377]

Language: English

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***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE RISE AND
PROGRESS OF THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS***

Transcribed from the 1834 Harrison and Crosfield edition by David Price,
email ccx074@pglaf.org

A BRIEF ACCOUNT
OF THE
RISE AND PROGRESS
OF THE PEOPLE
CALLED QUAKERS,
IN WHICH THEIR
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE, DOCTRINES, WORSHIP, MINISTRY, AND DISCIPLINE, ARE
PLAINLY DECLARED.

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.

AN EPISTLE TO THE READER.

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 Spirit
in the holy profession of it; whose fellowship I value above all worldly
greatness. Thirdly, in love and honour to the memory of that worthy
servant of God, Georg