This following account of the people called Quakers, & c. was written in the fear and love of God: first, as a standing testimony to that ever blessed truth, in the inward parts, with which God, in my youthful time, visited my soul, and for the sense and love of which I was made willing, in no ordinary way, to relinquish the honours and interests of the world. Secondly, as a testimony for that despised people, that God has in his great mercy gathered and united by his own blessed Spirit in the holy profession of it; whose fellowship I value above all worldly greatness. . . .Our business, after all the ill usage we have met with, being the realities of religion, an effectual change before our last and great change; that all may come to an inward, sensible and experimental knowledge of God, through the convictions and operations of the light and spirit of Christ in themselves, the sufficient and blessed means given to all, that thereby all may come savingly to know the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent, to enlighten and redeem the world: which knowledge is indeed eternal life. And that thou, reader, mayst obtain it, is the earnest desire of him that is ever Thine in so good a work, William Penn Keywords: The Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers, William Penn, Quarkers, God, testimony, holy profession, Christ, Eternal Life, Redeem,

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