Root of Popery Struck At

  • Year 1660
  • Type Treatise
  • Genre polemics
  • Tradition Quaker (17th-century Friends)
  • Original language English

Length About 9,400 words, under 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
4 of 5 hard

Propositions of 1660 to Catholics on fallibility and infallibility, and on the true and false church and ministry since the apostles.

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

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

A tract of 1660 with propositions to Catholics on fallibility and infallibility, and considerations on the true and false church and ministry and their state since the apostles.

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  • OTHER The Root of Popery Struck At (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.

    Catalog IDE.XCBNKJ.CReport

  • PDF The Root of Popery Struck At (Internet Archive (first printing, 1660)) PD
    1660
    A scan of the first printing of 1660, 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.

    Catalog IDE.2DS1WA.4Report

  • PDF The Root of Popery Struck At (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.

    Catalog IDE.JHQ71P.YReport

Catalog IDW.4D9GZ7.G

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