Some Directions to the Panting Soul
For For readers who know the Bible well but find it dry: a short meditation on Christ's invitation to rest.
Length About 4,300 words, under an hour.
Meditations of 1661 on Matthew 11:28-30, 'Come unto me, all ye that labor', for the soul that has long studied the letter of Scripture without yet knowing its power.
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- OTHER Some Directions to the Panting Soul (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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E.3JNRVE.YReport - PDF Some Directions to the Panting Soul (Internet Archive (first printing, 1661)) PD1661A 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.
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E.S62Y6Z.MReport - PDF Some Directions to the Panting Soul (Internet Archive (Works, 1863, vol. 2)) PD1863Volume 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.
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