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Online Texts

All of our online historical texts have now been copied to this site from their older locations (which still exist) at www.voicenet.com/~kuenning/ and ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~kuenning/.

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): 3 volumes available, 4th (last) in progress; 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.

At our other sites:

Also at Larry and Licia Kuenning's home page (besides many of the above) are various writings by members of Friends of Truth (who run Quaker Heritage Press).

This page last modified 8/11/2007.