A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers

Transcribed from the 1834 Harrison and Crosfield edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
WITH A SUMMARY RELATION OF THE FORMER DISPENSATIONS OF GOD IN THE WORLD; BY WAY OF INTRODUCTION.
BY WILLIAM PENN .
AS UNKNOWN, AND YET WELL KNOWN. 2 COR. VI. 9.
TWELFTH EDITION .
MANCHESTER:
Printed by Harrison and Crosfield , Market Street .
sold by
HARVEY & DARTON, GRACECHURCH STREET, LONDON.
1834.
Reader, this following account of the people called Quakers, &c. was written in the fear and love of God: first, as a standing testimony to that ever blessed truth in the inward parts, with which God, in my youthful time, visited my soul, and for the sense and love of which I was made willing, in no ordinary way, to relinquish the honours and interests of the world. Secondly, as a testimony for that despised people, that God has in his great mercy gathered and united by his own blessed Spirit in the holy profession of it; whose fellowship I value above all worldly greatness. Thirdly, in love and honour to the memory of that worthy servant of God, George Fox, the first instrument thereof, and therefore styled by me—The great and