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A Description of the Qualifications Necessary to a Gospel Minister
A revised reprint of the 1767 original. A spiritual transformation is needed for Friends who speak in ministry. Bownas offers advice for discerning promptings to speak.
Samual Brownas
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Selected Quotations from William Penn’s No Cross, No Crown
William Penn (1644-1718) wrote No Cross, No Crown in 1669 about the importance of self-denial in the Christian life.
Sarah I. Miller
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A Language for the Inward Landscape: Spiritual Wisdom from the Quaker Movement
Friends use special vocabulary to describe their inward experiences. This book discusses and explains these words for a contemporary audience.
Brian Drayton and William P. Taber
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A Revolutionary Gospel
The Friends vision is a revolutionary vison of a whole new righteousness based on obedience to the Living Christ and a new Christian community governed by Christ.
Lewis Benson
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A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel
An overview of how one attains spiritual knowledge. It was first published in 1711, after Crisp’s death. Includes an introduction and updated language and punctuation from the 1711 edition.
Stephen Crisp
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Christ in Early Quakerism
The early Quaker teaching concerning “the universal and divine light of Christ” was a message concerning the action of God rather than the nature of man. It was saying, not simply there is innate in every man a private source of illumination, but rather, that what God showed himself to be in Jesus Christ he…
Maurice Creasey
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Early Prophetic Openings of George Fox
Selections are taken from George Fox’s Journal. They give a sense of Fox’s consciousness to a worldwide mission and helped to prepare him for his preaching and traveling.
George Fox
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God’s Garden
Just as the garden has seasons, so does our spiritual life. Sometimes it is like spring filled with new life and promise. Other times, like summer and fall, there are abundance and harvest. Yet other times like winter, we experience barrenness and bleakness.
Virginia Schurman
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Letters to a Friend, on some of the Primitive Doctrines of Christianity
John Wilbur (1774-1856) wrote letters to George Crosfield stating the reasons for rejecting trends among Friends that have been labeled “Hicksite” and “Gurneyite.” The letters are a plea for a Christian faith founded both on the outward, atoning work of Jesus on the cross, and on the inward, transforming work of Christ in the human…
John Wilbur (1774-1856)
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Living in the Spirit: What One Quaker Has Learned
A list of lessons that the author has learned about God, Jesus, the Scriptures, and worship.
Roger Dreisbach-Williams