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

by William Penn

Overview

A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called quakers, in which their fundamental principle, doctrines, worship, ministry, and discipline, are plainly declared with a summary relation of the former dispensations of god in the world; by way of introduction.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012824370
Publisher:	eLogos
Publication date:	07/03/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	106 KB

About the Author

"William Penn (October 14, 1644 – July 30, 1718) was an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, and founder and "absolute proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He was an early champion of democracy and religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the Lenape Indians. Under his direction, the city of Philadelphia was planned and developed.
As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote and urged for a Union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. As a pacifist Quaker, Penn considered the problems of war and peace deeply, and included a plan for a United States of Europe, "European Dyet, Parliament or Estates" in his voluminous writings." --Wikipedia