Some Queries concerning Compulsion in Religion

by Isaac Penington

  • Year 1670
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre apologetics
  • Tradition Quaker (Early Friends)
  • Original language English

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

Length About 1,400 words, under an hour.

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Short queries on compulsion in religion: whether everyone is bound to worship as he is fully persuaded.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 2 of 5
  • Experiential 1 of 5
  • Sociological 4 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

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Queries, dated 1670 in the Works, on compulsion in religion: whether every man is bound in conscience to worship as he is fully persuaded.

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  • Some Queries concerning Compulsion in Religion (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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  • PDF Some Queries concerning Compulsion in Religion (Internet Archive (Works, 1863, vol. 4)) PD
    1863
    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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