Further Testimony to Truth

  • Year 1680
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre apologetics
  • Tradition Quaker (Friends), 17th century
  • Original language English

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

Length About 20,400 words, about an hour.

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A book printed after his death (1680) on the way of life and salvation; it carried his account of silent meetings.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 3 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 1 of 5

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

A book printed after his death, in 1680, on the way of life and salvation; it carried A Brief Account concerning Silent Meetings, reprinted separately in 1797.

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  • A Further Testimony to Truth revived out of the Ruins of the Apostacy (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.

    Catalog IDE.9932CA.TReport

  • PDF A Further Testimony to Truth revived out of the Ruins of the Apostacy (Internet Archive (1797)) PD Abridged
    1797
    A Brief Account of Silent Meetings, reprinted on its own in 1797 from the collected Works: an extract, not the whole book. A scan of the printed pamphlet on the Internet Archive, page images with rough machine-read text.

    Catalog IDE.X999V2.3Report

  • PDF A Further Testimony to Truth revived out of the Ruins of the Apostacy (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.

    Catalog IDE.2KDYVW.WReport

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