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Title: A Sermon Preached at the Quaker's Meeting House, in Gracechurch-Street, London, Eighth Month 12th, 1694.

Author: William Penn

Release Date: February 6, 2007 [EBook #20534]

Language: English

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A SERMON

PREACHED AT

THE QUAKER'S MEETING HOUSE,

IN GRACECHURCH-STREET, LONDON,

EIGHTH MONTH 12TH, 1694.

BY WILLIAM PENN.

SALVATION FROM SIN BY CHRIST ALONE.

LONDON:
R. H. MOORE, 162, FLEET-STREET;
AND BANCKS AND CO., EXCHANGE-STREET, MANCHESTER.
1836.

BANCKS AND CO., PRINTERS, MANCHESTER.

The perusal of the first numbers of a series of tracts, containing
extracts from the writings of "early Friends," and published for the
avowed purpose of lowering the estimation in which those writings are
held by the Society, and even of proving "that many of them would
reflect discredit upon a private library, and ought truly to be
accounted dangerous books," has given rise to the present
re-publication. As an humble, but sincere admirer of those principles of
Gospel Truth, which the early Friends sought to promulgate, as well by
their writings as by eminently devoted lives, and a constant and oft
proved willingness to suffer for Christ's sake, I must protest (whether
to any purpose or not) against the illiberal, and unjust mode of conduct
resorted to by the publishers of the "Extracts," in selecting short and
partial sentences, and thus, as I conceive, grossly misrepresenting some
of the views of those Worthies long since removed from the world on
which they walked as strangers and as pilgrims, and long since, I doubt
not, permit