Concerning Persecution

by Isaac Penington

  • Year 1661
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre apologetics
  • Tradition Quaker (Early Friends)
  • Original language English

Length About 11,800 words, about an hour.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
1 of 5 specialist interest
For the researcher
3 of 5 worth your time
Difficulty
3 of 5 demanding

A tract of 1661 on persecution, the punishing of what is good under pretence of its being evil.

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

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

A tract of 1661 on persecution, defined as punishing what is good under the pretence that it is evil: contrary to human nature, to righteous government and to the gospel.

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  • OTHER Concerning Persecution (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 Concerning Persecution (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.
    📄 View on Internet Archive (first printing, 1661) ↗

    Catalog IDE.0C7J7S.FReport

  • PDF Concerning Persecution (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.
    📄 View on Internet Archive (Works, 1863, vol. 2) ↗

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