Some Questions and Answers for the Opening of the Eyes of the Jews Natural

  • Year 1661
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre apologetics
  • Tradition Quaker
  • Original language English

Length About 18,500 words, about an hour.

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 of 1661 for the Jews, and for 'spiritual Israel' on its journey from Egypt through the wilderness to Canaan.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 1 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 1 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

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

Questions and answers of 1661 in two parts: for the Jews, that they may see the hope of Israel, and for 'God's spiritual Israel' on its journey from spiritual Egypt through the wilderness to Canaan.

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  • OTHER Some Questions and Answers for the opening of the Eyes of the Jews Natural (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 Questions and Answers for the opening of the Eyes of the Jews Natural (Internet Archive (first printing, 1661)) PD
    1661
    A scan of the first printing of 1661, 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.

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  • PDF Some Questions and Answers for the opening of the Eyes of the Jews Natural (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.

    Catalog IDE.G5W6V9.HReport

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