Naked Truth

by Isaac Penington

  • Year 1674
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre theology
  • Tradition Quaker (Society of Friends), 17th century
  • Original language English

For For readers who want Penington's teaching in question-and-answer form.

Length About 25,900 words, about 2 hours.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
3 of 5 demanding

Questions and answers to remove hindrances for the simple-hearted, with experiences and scriptures of the gospel state, a few words on the true Christ, and an address to England.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 1 of 5
  • Historical 0 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

A book of 1674 in questions and answers, to remove hindrances for the simple-hearted, with experiences and scriptures of the gospel state, a few words on the true Christ, and an address to England.

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  • OTHER Naked Truth (Quaker Heritage Press)
    The Quaker Heritage Press online text, from volume 3 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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  • PDF Naked Truth (Internet Archive (first printing, 1674)) PD
    1674
    A scan of the first printing of 1674, from the Early English Books microfilm on the Internet Archive: the original type, page images with rough machine-read text.
    Harder than the work: Original printing: seventeenth-century spelling and type, with the long s.
    📄 View on Internet Archive (first printing, 1674) ↗

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  • PDF Naked Truth (Internet Archive (Works, 1863, vol. 3)) PD
    1863
    Volume 3 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.
    📄 View on Internet Archive (Works, 1863, vol. 3) ↗

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