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Show I' • I I The Contents of the Firft Volume; III. The Folldwing T R ACTS, Viz. :6n6n~: Trbth Exalted, in a Teftimony againfl o/J rbof~ Religions, Faiths and Worlhips, that !Jave bun formed and followed in t!Je Darknefs of Apoftacy; And for tbat. Glorious Light now rifen and jhining fortb in the Life and VoOnne of tbt dcjpijed Qual\ers, tU tbe ,alone good Old W•y of Life and Salvation, 241. • Note. A 1668.¥ The Sandy Foundation Shaken; Lttrned Dt~ Or tboje Jo gentraUy/uli8Vfd fe.'e of this and applauded DoOrines. Treatire is in f OneGodjubfifling inTbru) :t-~~;11!f'"~ ) DiflinU and Separate Per'!!',.• Clbuy"',' <0 , I fons, ~ ih Tbe lmpoffibi!ity of God's !f.inter here· Of1 pardoning Sinners. with- Jtefaud our '!_}Jknary SatisfalliMt, The Ji1ftificatiGnoj impure Perfons by an Implltativtj 1.. Rigbteoufnefs. }'rom the Authority of ScJip· tore Teftimonies and Right Reafon, 248. 1668. Innocency with hu Open Face, by woy of Apology, for the Book emituled, The Sandy Foundation Shaken, :266. No Crofi, No Crown, }hewing tbe Nature and Dijcipline of tbe Holy Crofs of Chrilf, and that tbe Denial of Self and the Bearing of Chrift's Crofs, is the only Way to the Reft and Kingdom of God In 2 Parts, 272. 1669. ALetlerofLove to the Young Convinced. 440. r67o. Tbe Great Cafe of Liberty of · CMjcience Debated and De· fended by the Authority of Reafon, Scripture and Anti~ quity, ' 443· A Seafonable Caveat againfl Popery, or a Pamphlet entitu· led, .A11 Explanation of the Roman Catholick. Belief, brief~ ly Examined, 467. Truth Refcued from Impofture, or a Brief Reply to _a meer Rhapfody of Lies, Folly and Slander; But a pretended An~ fwer to tbe Tryal of William Pe~n and Wilham Mead, elc. Will ondfubfcribed, S. S. 486 ' IP7l; Tbe Chriftian Q.uak~r and hi< Divino Tellimony Staled and An!'JO. J69i- Vindicated from Scripture, Reafon and Authority, 521. A Difcourfe of tbe General Rule of Fait.& nnd Pr:.tBict, ond Judge of Controverfy. 55 °-' A Letter to tbe Council and Senate ofEmbden, 6o9. .A Treatife of Oaths, contnining feveral n:eighry Reafons wbJ tbe Plople caOed Quakers rejufe to Swear, and tbofe confirmed by Numeror1.t Tejfi~ m011ie.t of Gentiles, Jews and Chriftians, both Fathers, Doc· tors and Manyrs, 612. England's prefent Intereft {Onjidered, with Honour to tb~ Prince and Safety to the Pea~ pie, In .Anfwer to thU one '<._uejlion, What is moft Fit. F.afy and S:~fe at this Juucaure of Affairs to be done; for quieting of DiflEerences, allaying the I-lea t of contrary Intetefts, and making them Suhfervient to the Imereft of the Government, and confiftent wirh the Profperity of the Kingdom? 672. Saul Smittln to the Gt:ound, be~ ing a Bri.ef but Faithful Nar~ rative of the dying Remt}Jfe of 11 Lalt Living Enemy to the People called Quakers, and their Faith and 'Vorfhip, 71 r. .An Addrefs to Protejlanu_ of all Perfwa./ionr; more efpeciaOJJ the Magiftracy and Clergy, for tbe Promotion of Virtue andCharity, In 2 Pans. 717. Some Fr~its of Solitude, in Ref!efhonr and ftlaximr, .re~ larmg to the Condufl of H~~.~ mane Life. In 2 Pans. 818. .A Brief Account of the Rife and Progrefs of the People cal~ ltd Quakers, In which their fuT_Idamenral Prin~ipJer, Doctr~ ne!, _Worjbip, ll1iniftry and DifCJplme nre plairJ!y declared, &c. 8;8. The Advice of William Penn to his Children, Relating to t!;tir Civil and Religious Conduli- 893- THE i THE AUTHOR's LIFE. V o L u M E the Firft. WHEN the BLESS ED MESSIAH firft call'd forrh the im- 7l<l•vol•8imediate Followers of His Perfon, he declared Seq-.De.nial effential '"• to Difciplejhip, fa yin~, Whofoever doth not bear bt.t Crofs, and come after me, cannot be my Difctple, Luke xiv. 27. This P~ttb himfelf trod before them, fetting all that fhould come after! an Example of the mofi: ~r-fefl Patience and. Refignation. The Faitb,[ul m ~very Age, have met wah Variety of Exercife.r ; and many of the_m by the1r more than llu"!nne Con• ftancy_, neither terrified by the rougheft Effons of Cruelty and Mabee on the one H'and nor enticed by the Smootbefl Allurements of Pleafure and Vanity on the other, have given convi~c!ng Pr~ofs to the World, that the Grace -which fupponed them, was D1vme. • . . 'Twas this which gave our Aut!Jor 10 hiS early Years, a fohd Senfe of R.tligion and~ Tafte of that Subjf_antial Peace which the World can neither give no; take away: This infiruB:ed him to fee the Emptinefs and VanitY of Earthly Enjoyments, and to turn his Back upon the Honour, Profits; and Pleafures of rhe World, at an Age moft inclinable to embrace them s This enabled him to furmount all Oppofition in .the Search of T x '! T H: which having found, he valu~d 1t1 a Ptarl of Pr,tce, and la~~red In the, Propagation and Defence of tt, both by Preachmg and Wrmng, almoft incelfantly for many Years: _ . . ,. It being now thought meet to publt(h a Collefhon of Htr W9 R I<. S for a General Service, We judge it not impro~r to prc~x the follo~m& ]o11r'!ttl of His LIFE •. chief\~ ~xtratl:ed out _of hiS own Pnvat~ Memotrr, In whtch we doubt nor tnc ]udmous Reader will find many Paffages, both Exemplary '3nd InftruS:i ve. WILLIAM PENN was born in the Parifh call'd Sr. K41horin<'s, near 1644· the Tower of London on the 14th Day ofOtlober, 1644. His Father, oftbe ~ fame Name, was a Man of good Eftate and ~eputatio~,. and in the Time of Hil Bi,~, p.., the Commonwealth, ferved in fome of the Htghefl Manllme Officet, as thofe ~7'"'e! s4 of· Rear-Admiral, Vice-Admiral, .Admiral of Ireland, Vifi!.·Jidmiral of Eng- awn,._ land, &:c. in all which, he acquitted himfelf with Honour and Fidelity. After the Reji!Jra,tion, he was Knighted by King DJarles .the Second, and became a peculiar Favourite of. the then Duke of York: H1S ,Par~rnal Ca_re, t d a promifing Prof pea of his Son's Advancement, mduc d hu~ ro give m a L;beral Education; and the Youth, of :.tn Excellent Gen111s, m:~de ch e:nly Improvements in Liurat11re, that about the J)th Year of his Age. he was entred 3 Student at Chrift's Church Cp~edge in ~xford. . Now began his ardent Defire after Pure ~nd Sptruual Reltgt~n- (of wh1cb r6)9· he had before received fame Tafte or Rel!(h, through the Mmtflry of one ~ 'fhomm Loe, .1 ffl._11ak.er) to fhew itlelf; for he, wi1h certain other ~t11Jentt H~ ur!J En· of tb:.tt Univcrfity, withdrawin!? from th~ J'!ationnl Way of Worjbtp, he~d 1t1[{,"ft~'J{~ Private Meetings for the Exerctfe of Rcbgron, where they both preach d 'I • and pra(d amongfr the~felves : This gave grelt OfFence to the HeJds of the OiUeO&e, and he, being but Sixteen Years of Age, was fu1'd for Nonc~n- B formrty. |
