ESSAYS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, TAKEN FROM A NARRATIVE OF THE EARLY LIFE, TRAVELS, AND GOSPEL LABORS OF JESSE KERSEY, LATE OF CHESTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA

Jesse Kersey

Philadelphia: T. Ellwood Chapman, 1851.

These pieces should be compared to the earlier work, A Treatise on the Fundamental Doctrines of the Christian Religion.

CONTENTS

Essay #1: [The Rise of the Society of Friends] ^(*).

Essay #2: On Prayer.

Essay #3: On The Ministry.

Essay #4: [On Reunification of Friends]

Essay #5: On War.

Essay #6: On the Forms of Worship among Friends.

Essay #7: [Attendance at Spiritual Worship]

Essay #8: [The Lamb and His Followers Shall Have the Victory]

Essay #9: [Slavery and Divine Revelation to Man]

Essay #10: On The Order and Discipline of Society.

Essay #11: Letter to His Son, Joseph.

Essay #12: [The Manifestation of the Spirit of God]

Essay #13: [Agents of Priesthood]

Essay #14: [The Problem of Evil]

Essay #15: [On The Ministry (2)]

Essay #16: [On the Founding of Sects]

Essay #17: [The Love of Power and Preference]

Essay #18: Family Education.

Essay #19: On the Importance of Keeping up Our Meetings for Worship

Essay #20: On Divine Revelation

Essay #21: [Memorial to Thomas Pim]

Essay #22: [Unity under the Spirit]

Essay #23: Rewards and Punishments

Essay #24: Letter to -----

Essay # 25: On the Divinity of Christ

Essay #26: On the Doctrine of the Father and Son

Essay #27: Letter to his Daughter, Hannah Cope (1)

Essay #28: Letter to his Daughter, Hannah Cope (2)

^(*) Titles in [square brackets] provided by -pds and not in the original. <-Back