Some Sensible, Weighty Queries

by Isaac Penington

  • Year 1677
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre apologetics
  • Tradition Quaker
  • Original language English

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

Queries printed in 1677 with To the Jews Natural, with a postscript on Isaiah 50:10-11.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 1 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.

Queries printed in 1677 together with To the Jews Natural, and to the Jews Spiritual, with a postscript on Isaiah 50:10-11.

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  • OTHER Some Sensible, Weighty Queries (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 Some Sensible, Weighty Queries (Internet Archive (first printing, 1677)) PD
    1677
    A scan of the first printing of 1677, 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 Sensible, Weighty Queries (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.
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