Hebrews: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
Christ as the true High Priest, the new covenant, and the cloud of witnesses who have gone before — the first volume in the Friends Illuminated commentary.
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Bible Commentaries
Verse-by-verse commentary in the light of the Quaker tradition — Scripture opened for the modern reader, book by book.
John: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
The theological cornerstone of Quakerism. John's Gospel gave Friends their central doctrine: "the true Light which lighteth every man" — the Inner Light…
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Romans: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
Justification, the law written on the heart, and the Spirit's witness — Barclay built the Apology largely on Romans. The theological engine of Quaker…
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1 John: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
"God is Light, and in him is no darkness at all." The epistle that gave Quakerism its central metaphor. Walking in the Light is walking in love — and…
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Revelation: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
"The Lamb's War." Nayler's famous tract drew its title from Revelation. Early Friends read this book not as future prophecy but as a present spiritual…
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Matthew: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
The Sermon on the Mount, the Great Commission, and the parables of the Kingdom — the Gospel most cited in early Quaker preaching, whose ethical demands…
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Galatians: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
Freedom from outward forms, life in the Spirit, and the fruit of righteousness. Fox's declaration that "Christ has come to teach his people himself"…
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James: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
"Faith without works is dead." James's insistence on practical righteousness, care for the poor, and integrity of speech mirrors the Quaker testimonies…
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Isaiah: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
The prophet of justice, mercy, and the suffering servant — themes central to Quaker faith. Fox and Penington returned to Isaiah constantly, finding in…
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Jeremiah: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
The weeping prophet who confronted false religion and spoke of the new covenant written on the heart — the passage most quoted by early Friends when…
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1 Corinthians: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
"The foolishness of God is wiser than men." Paul's letter on spiritual gifts, gathered worship, and the nature of the body of Christ — texts Friends…
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Acts: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
The primitive church in action — the model Friends sought to restore. Spirit-led ministry, communal sharing, and bold witness in the face of persecution…
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2 Corinthians: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
"We have this treasure in earthen vessels." Paul's most personal epistle — on suffering as the ground of authentic ministry, the new covenant of the…
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Micah: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
"What does the Lord require of thee?" Micah's call to justice, mercy, and humble walking with God became a defining text for the Quaker peace testimony…
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Luke: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
The Gospel of the outcast, the poor, and the Spirit's anointing. Luke's emphasis on social justice and the work of the Holy Spirit resonated deeply with…
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Ephesians: A Friends Illuminated Commentary
The whole armor of God, the mystery of Christ, and the church as one body in whom all distinction dissolves. Penn drew deeply on Ephesians for his…
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Journals & Memoirs
First-person lives of the Friends — convincement, ministry, suffering, and faithful witness.
The Journal of George Fox
George Fox's Journal in a modernized, illuminated edition — the foundational Quaker text of his spiritual seeking and encounters with Christ as living teacher.
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Memoir of George Fox
George Fox was a weaver's apprentice from Drayton-in-the-Clay who walked out of his trade at nineteen because no priest and no professor could speak to…
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The Journal of John Woolman
The Journal of John Woolman (1720–1772), the Quaker classic first published in 1774. Modernized edition, $9.99 EPUB, with a free sample.
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The Christian Progress of George Whitehead
George Whitehead's spiritual autobiography — the life and sufferings of the last of the early Quaker Publishers of Truth, who pleaded the cause of…
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The Life of Thomas Ellwood, Volume 1
The autobiography of Milton's Quaker friend — one of the most charming personal narratives in English Quaker literature, following Ellwood's turbulent…
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A Journal of the Life of Thomas Story, Volume I: Convincement & Ministry
The first volume of the Journal of Thomas Story (c. 1670–1742), the Cumberland lawyer who became one of the great Quaker ministers: his dream of five…
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The Truth Exalted: The Journal of John Burnyeat
The journal of John Burnyeat (1631–1690), the Cumberland farmer who became the chief builder of Irish Quakerism. Convinced in 1653, he crossed the…
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Strength in Weakness Manifest: The Life, Testimony & Sufferings of a Quaker Woman
The spiritual autobiography of Elizabeth Stirredge (1634–1706), a Quaker woman of Gloucestershire: her convincement under the Valiant Sixty, her…
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A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel
Stephen Crisp's 1691 allegory of the soul's journey from Babylon to Bethel. The original full text is free on Project Gutenberg; modernised edition $9.99.
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The Faithful Testimony of William Dewsbury: His Life, Epistles and Writings
The collected life and writings of William Dewsbury (c. 1621–1688), one of the Valiant Sixty and a founder of the People Called Quakers. A Yorkshire…
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The Life of William Dewsbury
William Dewsbury (c. 1621–1688) — shepherd boy, weaver's apprentice, Parliament soldier, and one of the first travelling ministers of the people called…
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A Testimony of Divine Grace: The Life of Mary Penington
One of the finest first-person accounts of the long Puritan-to-Quaker spiritual journey — the autobiography of a woman who searched through every form…
45 minutes to read
The Fighting Sailor Turn'd Peaceable Christian: The Life of Thomas Lurting
The narrative of Thomas Lurting (c. 1632–1713), the English seaman who fought through the naval wars of the 1650s, was convinced of the Quaker truth…
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Selected Writings & Journals
Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845), the Quaker minister who walked into Newgate in 1813 and came out the mother of modern prison reform, in her own journals and…
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Memoirs & Observations, Volume I
Joseph John Gurney (1788–1847) — the evangelical Quaker banker, scholar, and minister of Earlham Hall — tells his own story through journal and letters…
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Memoirs of the Life of Catharine Phillips
The memoirs of Catharine Payton Phillips (1727–1794), one of the most travelled women ministers of eighteenth-century Quakerism. From her early…
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Some Account of the Life of Elizabeth Ashbridge
The autobiography of Elizabeth Ashbridge (1713–1755) — a runaway marriage at fourteen, a widow at fifteen, kidnapped and sold into indentured servitude…
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A Legacy, or Widow's Mite
The devotional autobiography of Alice Hayes (1657–1720) — born at Rickmansworth, raised in the Church of England, and brought through a long spiritual…
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A Short Journal of the Labours and Travels of Deborah Bell
The travelling journal of Deborah Bell (1689–1738) — convinced young, called to the ministry in 1708, and thereafter carried on foot and horseback…
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An Account of the Convincement of Margaret Lucas
The first-person account of Margaret Lucas of Leek in Staffordshire (1701–1769) — orphaned young, raised a zealous churchwoman, and drawn to Quaker…
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Memoirs of the Life of John Roberts
John Roberts of Siddington in Gloucestershire (1623–1684) — Parliamentary soldier, yeoman farmer, and from 1665 a Quaker who spent his last eighteen…
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The Life of Edward Burrough
The definitive biography of the 'Son of Thunder' — a careful, deeply researched account of the brief, blazing life of Edward Burrough, from his…
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Memoirs of Elizabeth Collins
Elizabeth Collins of Upper Evesham, New Jersey (1755–1831) was a minister among Friends for more than fifty years. Born a weakly child not expected to…
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Memoirs of Ruth Follows
Ruth Follows of Castle Donington in Leicestershire (1718–1809) was a minister among Friends for sixty years. She travelled the length of England, over…
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A Short Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Patience Brayton
Patience Brayton of Swansea, Massachusetts (1733–1794) was a minister among Friends who, with her husband, manumitted the slaves of their own household…
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Memoirs of the Life and Travels of Sarah Stephenson
The memoirs and travel journals of Sarah Stephenson (1738–1802), a minister among Friends who crossed the Atlantic at sixty-two in broken health because…
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Memoir of the Life, Travels, and Religious Experience of Martha Routh
The memoir of Martha Routh (1743–1817), an English Quaker minister who left a Nottingham schoolroom to cross the Atlantic twice and travel thousands of…
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Sketches of the Life of Jane Pearson
The memoirs of Jane Pearson (1734–1816) of Whitehaven, written in her own hand and published the year after her death. Widowed in 1774 and left with a…
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Memoir of Ann Crowley
The memoranda of Ann Crowley (1765–1826) of Shillingford and Uxbridge, who insisted she was not writing a journal at all — only a few notes set down…
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Journal of the Life of William Edmundson
The journal of William Edmundson (1627–1712), a Westmorland orphan who rode as a Parliamentary trooper before his convincement and became the first…
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The Life of Sarah Grubb
Sarah Tuke Grubb was one of the most travelled Quaker ministers of the eighteenth century, and she was dead at thirty-four. Born at York in 1756 to…
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Memoranda of Mary Hagger
Mary Hagger was recorded a minister at Hertford in 1794, and then spent most of her adult life unable to do the work. A concern to visit Essex was laid…
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The Life of William Caton
William Caton came to Swarthmoor Hall as a boy, to be schooled alongside Judge Fell's son, and was there in 1652 when George Fox walked in. He was…
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The Life of Mary Neale
She was Mary Peisley for very nearly the whole of her life, and Mary Neale for three days. Born at Ballymore in the county of Kildare in 1717, she was…
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The Life of John Burnyeat
John Burnyeat was a Cumberland farmer's son who heard George Fox in 1653 and spent the next thirty-seven years on the road. The north of England and…
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The Life of Mary Dudley
Mary Dudley was born Mary Stokes in Bristol in 1750 and raised in the Established Church. She went among the Methodists in her late teens and was moved…
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Journal of Thomas Chalkley
Thomas Chalkley went to sea as a boy and never really came ashore. He was a master mariner and merchant who paid the charges of his own ministry out of…
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The Life of Stephen Crisp
Stephen Crisp was born at Colchester in 1628 and spent his young manhood being disappointed by religion — trying the public teachers, trying the…
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The Life of Gilbert Latey
Gilbert Latey came up to London from a Cornish parish as an apprenticed tailor and made his living dressing persons of considerable rank, whose apparel…
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The Life of Christopher Story
Christopher Story was born at Righead in the parish of Kirklinton in Cumberland, six miles from Carlisle and nearly as far from the Scottish border, and…
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Some Account of the Life and Religious Experience of Mary Alexander
Mary Alexander was born at Needham Market in Suffolk in 1760 and died at Needham in 1809, and this is the record she kept of a ministry that took her…
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History & Sufferings
The story of the people called Quakers — their rise, and the price they paid for it.
The History of the Quakers, Volume I: The Rise
William Sewel's classic History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers — for two centuries the standard account of…
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The History of the Quakers, Volume II: Persecution & Restoration
The second volume of William Sewel's classic History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers carries the story…
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A Collection of the Sufferings of the People Called Quakers, Volume I
Joseph Besse's monumental record of Quaker persecution — a county-by-county ledger of the fines, distraints, and imprisonments visited upon early…
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A Short Account of the People Called Quakers
Anthony Benezet (1713–1784) — the Huguenot-born Philadelphia schoolmaster and pioneering abolitionist — sets down a plain, sympathetic account of the…
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Theology, Letters & Tracts
The doctrinal and pastoral writings at the heart of early Quaker thought.
An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
The definitive systematic defense of Quaker faith — Robert Barclay's fifteen propositions on revelation, the inward light, justification, worship, and…
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The Works of Isaac Penington, Volume I
The opening volume of Penington's collected works — his earliest tracts, testimonies, and letters, establishing the foundational arguments of his…
16 hours to read
The Works of Isaac Penington, Volume II
The heart of Penington's theological output — 28 discourses on worship, covenant theology, ecclesiology, religious liberty, and the nature of the…
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The Works of Isaac Penington, Volume III
The third volume of Penington's collected works — thirteen theological tracts and sixty-two letters, the most personal and pastorally rich volume in the set.
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The Works of Isaac Penington, Volume IV
The fourth and final volume of Penington's collected works — sixteen theological tracts and seventy-seven letters, completing the most comprehensive…
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No Cross, No Crown
The masterwork of Quaker devotional literature — written by William Penn in the Tower of London — arguing that true Christianity requires the daily…
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Some Fruits of Solitude
William Penn's beloved book of maxims, complete in both parts and modernized for today's reader. Written during his years of hiding after the fall of…
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A Brief Account of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers
William Penn's classic account of the Quaker movement — from creation through apostasy to the rise of Friends — written as a preface to George Fox's…
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Salvation by Christ
Job Scott's controversial theological essays arguing that salvation is an inward, experiential process — not merely a historical transaction at Calvary.
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The Dawnings of the Gospel Day, Volume I: The Early Tracts
The collected early writings of Francis Howgill (1618–1668), one of the Valiant Sixty and a great pillar of the first generation of Friends. Gathered…
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The Dawnings of the Gospel Day, Volume II: The Doctrinal Tracts
The second volume of Francis Howgill’s collected writings from the 1676 folio, gathering the great doctrinal tracts of 1658: The Measuring Rod of the…
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The Collected Tracts of Richard Farnsworth, Volume I: The Spirit Speaking in Man
Six tracts by Richard Farnsworth (c. 1630–1666), one of the Valiant Sixty and an early companion of George Fox. Spanning 1653 to 1663, they defend the…
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A Collection of the Several Books and Writings of Richard Hubberthorne, Volume I: The Testimony & Early Controversial Tracts
The controversial and testimonial writings of Richard Hubberthorne (c. 1628–1662), one of the first generation of Quaker ministers, who finished his…
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A Call out of Egypt: Collected Tracts & Epistles
Alexander Parker (1628–1689) — one of the Valiant Sixty and George Fox's most constant traveling companion — gathered here for the first time in a…
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Selected Works, Volume I: Teaching Tracts & Epistles
James Nayler (1618–1660) — the Yorkshire farmer and Parliament soldier who became, with George Fox, one of the two greatest voices of the first Quaker…
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The Sounding Voice: Collected Writings, Volume I
Humphrey Smith (d. 1663) — the Herefordshire preacher who gave up a hireling ministry for the Light within and died a prisoner at Winchester — in…
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Letters of Early Friends
The first great gathering of early Quaker correspondence, modernized for today's reader: 150 letters written between the 1650s and 1690s by about forty…
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The Epistles of George Fox, Volume I
The first gathering of George Fox's letters, modernized for today's reader: thirty of his earliest epistles, written between 1650 and 1655, from the…
53 minutes to read
Women's Speaking Justified & Selected Writings
The founding text of Quaker women's ministry, modernized for today's reader. Margaret Fell — the 'Mother of Quakerism' — wrote Women's Speaking…
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Rusticus ad Academicos: The Rustic's Alarm to the Rabbis (Selections, Volume I)
Samuel Fisher (1605–1665) — the Oxford-educated vicar who laid down one of the richest livings in Kent for conscience's sake and became the scholar of…
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Letters & Appeals
Sarah and Angelina Grimké — daughters of a Charleston slaveholding family who became Quakers and the most electrifying abolitionist voices of their day…
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The Collected Works of Edward Burrough
The complete writings of the “Son of Thunder” — all seven volumes, now available.
Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 1
The opening volume of Edward Burrough's collected writings — the earliest tracts of the Quaker movement's most electrifying voice, a young preacher who…
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Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 2
The second volume of Burrough's collected works — his sustained debates with priests, professors, and opponents of the Quaker movement, marking him as…
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Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 3
Burrough's letters to rulers and magistrates — his bold addresses to Parliament, Oliver Cromwell, and the city authorities who persecuted Friends…
6.5 hours to read
Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 4
Burrough's epistles to Friends — the pastoral letters in which the thundering controversialist reveals his gentler face, nurturing the gathered…
3 hours to read
Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 5
Burrough's doctrinal writings — his most sustained theological arguments for the central tenets of Quaker faith: the Inward Light, direct revelation…
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Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 6
Burrough's mission writings — his accounts of Quaker ministry in Ireland, his addresses to the people of London, and his writings from the years of…
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Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 7
The final volume of Burrough's collected works — his last writings from captivity, his farewell letters to Friends, and the testimonies of those who…
6.9 hours to read
Scripture & Sacred History
The biblical narrative, gathered and retold for the modern reader.
Sacred History, Volume I: The Old Testament
Thomas Ellwood's Sacred History — the whole sweep of the Old Testament narrative gathered out of the Scriptures and digested into due method with…
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