Some Things of Great Weight and Concernment to All

by Isaac Penington

  • Year 1667
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre theology
  • Tradition Quaker (Society of Friends)
  • Original language English

Length About 7,000 words, under 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

Written in Aylesbury prison, 1667: assertions on the way of life, directions to Christ, and the end of his coming.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 4 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 1667, written during his imprisonment at Aylesbury, in several parts: assertions on the principle and way of life, directions to Christ, and the end of Christ's coming and his salvation.

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  • OTHER Some Things of Great Weight and Concernment to All (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 Things of Great Weight and Concernment to All (Internet Archive (first printing, 1667)) PD
    1667
    A scan of the first printing of 1667, 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, 1667) ↗

    Catalog IDE.4NYWZ2.TReport

  • PDF Some Things of Great Weight and Concernment to All (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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