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Primitive Christianity Revived

Primitive Christianity Revived

William Penn (1644–1718) was an English Quaker writer and the founder of Pennsylvania. Expelled from Oxford for nonconformity and several times imprisoned for his Quaker preaching and writing, he secured a royal charter in 1681 and established his colony as a refuge of religious toleration, treating the Lenape peoples with unusual fairness. Our library holds his Primitive Christianity Revived and his account of the rise of the Quakers.

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First published
1696
Category
Theology
Length
45k words · about 3 hours
Chapters
22

About this book

William Penn's appeal for a return to the faith and practice of the earliest Christians, published in 1696. Writing as a Quaker, Penn presents true Christianity as an inward, spiritual religion marked by obedience to the Light of Christ and a holy life, rather than outward forms alone. It is a clear window into the convictions of early Quaker teaching.

Contents

  1. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.
  2. PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY
  3. TO THE PUBLIC:
  4. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
  5. A BRIEF MEMOIR OF WILLIAM PENN.
  6. CHAPTER II. 🔒
  7. CHAPTER III. 🔒
  8. CHAPTER IV. 🔒
  9. CHAPTER V. 🔒
  10. **Primitive Christianity Revived**. 🔒
  11. PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY REVIVED, ETC. 🔒
  12. CHAPTER II. 🔒
  13. CHAPTER III. 🔒
  14. CHAPTER IV. 🔒
  15. CHAPTER V. 🔒
  16. CHAPTER VI. 🔒
  17. CHAPTER VII. 🔒
  18. CHAPTER VIII. 🔒
  19. CHAPTER IX. 🔒
  20. CHAPTER X. 🔒
  21. CHAPTER XI. 🔒
  22. APPENDIX. 🔒

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