Penn, William, and George Whitehead:

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THE CHRISTIAN-QUAKER, AND HIS DIVINE TESTIMONY VINDICATED BY SCRIPTURE, REASON AND AUTHORITIES; AGAINST THE INJURIOUS ATTEMPTS, THAT HAVE BEEN LATELY MADE BY SEVERAL ADVERSARIES, WITH MANIFEST DESIGN ... The second (but first extant) edition of this work by William Penn, noted Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, in which he refutes assertions about the Quaker faith made by Baptist preacher Thomas Hicks in his pamphlet entitled A DIALOGUE BETWEEN A CHRISTIAN AND A QUAKER (1673). Hicks' pamphlet purported to be a conversation between an orthodox Christian and a Quaker, in which the Quaker was made to appear quite foolish. Bronner & Fraser note that it must have been quite popular, as it went through two printings and Penn felt compelled to respond with the present work. Penn's essay concerns "the Light within," which he claims is universal, dating back to the classical world even before Christ, though he notes that Christ is the ultimate expression of the Light. "WP went on to prove the universality of the Light through reason, and to summarize the character of a True Quaker, as one who is completely obedient to the Light. Biographers have called this WP's most systematic essay written up to this point, and it was given a good reception in the seventeenth century. When WP reprinted the work in 1699 he omitted all references to Hicks and printed it under the title, A DISCOURSE OF THE GENERAL RULE OF FAITH AND PRACTICE" - Bronner & Fraser.Bronner & Fraser claim that a 1673 editio

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