To such as are not satisfied with a Profession, without the true Life and Power

  • Year 1668
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre devotional
  • Tradition Quaker (early Friends)
  • Original language English

Length About 4,300 words, under an hour.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
3 of 5 worth your time
For the researcher
2 of 5 useful
Difficulty
3 of 5 demanding

An account of experience (1668) for those not satisfied with a profession of religion without its life and power.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 1 of 5
  • Scriptural 2 of 5
  • Experiential 5 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.

An account of experience (1668) for those not satisfied with a profession of religion without its life and power, who desire the Lord himself and the soul's true guide.

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  • OTHER To such as are not satisfied with a Profession, without the true Life and Power (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 To such as are not satisfied with a Profession, without the true Life and Power (Internet Archive (first printing, 1668)) PD
    1668
    A scan of the first printing of 1668, 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 To such as are not satisfied with a Profession, without the true Life and Power (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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