Some few Queries and Considerations

by Isaac Penington

Year 1660
Type Treatise
Genre political theology
Tradition Quaker (Early Modern English Dissent)
Original language English

Length About 3,200 words, under an hour.

Should I read this?

For the general reader: 1 of 5 specialist interest
For the researcher: 3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty: 3 of 5 demanding

Queries of 1660 to the royalist party after the Restoration, on whether their sufferings had been just in God's sight.

How it proceeds

Philosophic 1 of 5
Scriptural 2 of 5
Experiential 1 of 5
Sociological 4 of 5
Historical 3 of 5

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

Queries of 1660 to the Cavaliers, the royalist party, on whether their sufferings had been just in God's sight, and on how they should now use their return to power.

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OTHER Some few Queries and Considerations proposed to the Cavaliers (Quaker Heritage Press)
The Quaker Heritage Press online text, from volume 2 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 Some few Queries and Considerations proposed to the Cavaliers (Internet Archive (Works, 1863, vol. 2)) PD
1863
Volume 2 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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