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From: "Robert Cooper Moor" <>
Subject: PENN'S ADVICE TO CHILDREN~ALSO
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 1997 11:09:32 -0400
could also apply to some of us........
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the
natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in
the world.
William Penn (16441718), English religious leader, founder of
Pennsylvania. Advice to His Children (1699).
Fox, George, 162491, English religious leader, founder of the
Society of FRIENDS. In 1646 he underwent a mystical experience that
convinced him that Christianity was an inner light by which Jesus
directly illumines the believing soul. Beginning to preach in 1647,
he was often persecuted and imprisoned but won many followers. He
organized his sect in 1668; the first London Yearly Meeting was held
in 1671. His journal (1694, with a preface by William Penn) has
appeared in various editions.
The Society of Friends (Quakers) has its beginnings in the Friends
of Truth established in Leicestershire by English clergyman George
Fox, 23, who begins preaching the need for inward spiritual
experience. Troubled by the deadly formalism of Puritan Christianity,
Fox extends the philosophy of the Anabaptists, making conscience and
self-examination supreme, and he draws recruits from the lower middle
classes who heed his protest against the Presbyterian system. The
Friends will be called Quakers in 1650 by Justice Gervase Bennet
either because of the Friends vehemence in appealing to conscience,
which makes them shake with emotion, or because they assert that
those who do not know quaking and trembling are strangers to the
experience of Moses, David, and other saints. Fox will make a
missionary journey to Scotland in 1657, the first annual meeting of
the Society will be held in 1669, and Fox will preach in Ireland,
North America, the West Indies, and Holland until his death in 1691
despite persecution and imprisonment.
Best regards,
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Robert Cooper Moor, PO Box 5, Hockessin, DE 19707
http://members.aol.com/bobmoor/Moor.html
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