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Online Texts

Texts also available in QHP print editions:

• Robert Barclay (1648-1690), Apology for the True Christian Divinity (1678) (see the editorial introduction and appendix for a description of this original-text version and the rationale for it); see also print edition
• The Old Discipline (Philadelphia 1806 only; see print edition for other dates or other Yearly Meetings)
• Jonathan Dymond (1796-1828), An Inquiry into the Accordancy of War with the Principles of Christianity (1823-24), stating the traditional Quaker case for Christian pacifism; printed in Historical Writings of Quakers Against War
• Thomas Lurting (17th century), "The Fighting Sailor Turn'd Peaceable Christian" (autobiographical, featuring his conversion and an encounter with pirates handled nonviolently); printed in Historical Writings of Quakers Against War
• Works of James Nayler (1618-1660): 4th and last volume completed May 2009; see also print edition
• Works of Isaac Penington (1616-1679): see also print edition. The index (from the print edition) was added to the online edition in December 2002.
• Job Scott (1751-1793), "Essays on Salvation by Christ," and the debate that followed their publication in the 1820s: see also print edition

Texts online but not printed by QHP:

• Letter from the Elders gathered at Balby in Yorkshire in 1656 (an early form of Quaker discipline)
• Robert Barclay (1648-1690), "Catechism and Confession of Faith" (1673)
• The Bunyan-Burrough Debate (1656-1657), hypertext version used for Larry's dissertation, which is also here; a good example of 17th-century religious controversy
• Edward Burrough (1634-1662), To the Present Distracted and Broken Nation of England (1659), written during the collapse of the English revolution
• Jonathan Dymond, "Example and Testimony of the Early Christians on the Subject of War" (excerpted by the Tract Association of Friends from his book, listed above)
• Solomon Eccles (17th century), "A Musick-Lector" (1667 tract in the form of a dialog between an Anglican musician, a Baptist, and a Quaker ex-musician; also shows the participants' views of many aspects of each other's religions)
• Margaret Fell (1614-1702), "Women's Speaking Justified, Proved, and Allowed of by the Scriptures, All such as speak by the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus" (ca. 1666 or 1667)
• Margaret Fell, six epistles, copied here from an obsolete website
• George Fox (1624-1691), "Some Principles of the Elect People of God called Quakers" (1661; not printed in Fox's collected works)
• George Fox, selected epistles, copied here from an obsolete website
• Anonymous Hicksite and Orthodox pamphlets from just before the 1827 separation
• Francis Daniel Pastorius et al., first North American protest against slavery (1688), copied here from an obsolete website
• John Toldervy, 1656 debate with James Nayler about the strange spiritual experiences he had before leaving Quakerism
• John Woolman (1720-1772), three essays, copied here from an obsolete website

See also:

Catalog of historical Quaker texts (pre-1900) available here or elsewhere, including both print and electronic editions.

This page last modified 7/7/2013.