Concerning the Rule of the New Covenant

by Isaac Penington

Year 1668
Type Treatise
Genre theology
Tradition Quaker (17th-century Radical Protestant)
Original language English

Authorship Traditional — the long-standing attribution, not questioned in the sources consulted.

Length About 15,800 words, about an hour.

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A reply of February 1668 on the rule of the new covenant: Christ, the eternal Word who took flesh, is the rule.

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Scriptural 4 of 5
Experiential 2 of 5
Sociological 1 of 5
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A reply, dated February 1668, to queries and animadversions on the rule of the new covenant: Christ, the eternal Word who took flesh and fulfilled all righteousness, is the rule.

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Concerning the Rule of the New Covenant (Quaker Heritage Press)
The Quaker Heritage Press online text, from volume 4 of their edition of Penington's Works, transcribed from the fourth edition of 1863 without modernizing its language; only some punctuation and the form of Scripture references were changed. Their print edition's page numbers are marked in the text. Free to read in the browser.
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Volume 4 of the fourth edition of the Works (four volumes, 1863), where this piece is printed among others. A Google scan of a library copy on the Internet Archive.
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