[ BENSTEAD, SAMUEL D. ] .

Crowning Evidence That London Yearly Meeting: Has Ceased to Uphold the Original Faith and Practice of the Society of Friends

Manchester: William Irwin, Cathedral Chambers, Half Street, 1874 . 0. An original 19th century booklet. Second edition. pp.16 . 18.4cm x 12.2cm. Light brown printed covers. Corners chipped and small tears to top & tail of sewn spine. Inner front cover with an advert for "Ten Solemn Questions..Joseph John Gurney. Inner rear cover with: "A Selection From W. Irwin's List Of Works.." Clear English text throughout on lightly toned paper. A Commentary on An appeal for the ancient doctrines of the Religious Society of Friends, and the views of Edward Ash. VG. ** Full title reads: "Crowning evidence that London Yearly Meeting : has ceased to uphold the original faith and practice of the Society of Friends ; consisting of two articles from "The (Philadelphia) Friend" of 10th Mo. 24th, and 11th Mo. 7th, 1874, with an introduction and notes.".

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ALEXANDER, STELLA.

Quaker Testimony Against Slavery and Racial Discrimination. An Anthology.

London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1958. 1st edition. Compiled at the suggestion of the Race Relations Committee of the (British) Society of Friends. "Quaker testimony against racial discrimination grew gradually and sometimes hesitatingly out of the witness against slavery, but slavery itself was accepted by many Friends during the 17th century. It was the cruelties of the slave-trade which first disturbed the consciences of Friends and drove them to work for its abolition.." Pp.63, creasing to final page, toning to endpapers. Green cloth, gilt title to front, spine slightly sunned. G+.

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BENNET, THOMAS ( 1673–1728 ) .

A Confutation of Quakerism; Or a Plain Proof of the Falshood of what the Principal Quaker Writers (especially Mr. R. Barclay in his Apology and Other Works) do Teach....

London : Printed by M. J. and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch at the Red Lion in Pater-noster-Row. MDCCXXXIII. [ 1733 ] . 0. A reply to Robert Barclay's Apology for the true Christian Divinity. Third edition. 8vo. pp.10/pp.318/[4pp. - A Table..]/[4pp. - Adverts] . A very good full leather binding. Edges and hinges carefully strengthened. Spine with 5 raised bands and two recent crimson leather title labels. Endpapers lightly toned and stained. Previou owner's detail to front free-endpaper: "Felix I . Vries, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Lent Term 1932" ??. Printed title with double-ruled border. Clean English text throughout. A well preserved book. * Full title reads: "A Confutation of Quakerism; Or a Plain Proof of the Falshood of what the Principal Quaker Writers (especially Mr. R. Barclay in his Apology and Other Works) do Teach. concerning the necessity of immediate revelation in order to a saving Christian faith; the Being, Nature and Operation of the Pretended Universal Light within; its Striving with Men, moving them to Prayer, and calling them to the Ministry; Regeneration, Sanctification, Justification, Salvation and Union with God; the Nature of a Church; the Rule of Faith; Water-Baptism; and the Lord’s-Supper. Diverse Questions also concerning Perfection, Christ’s Satisfaction, the Judge of Controversies, &c. are briefly stated and resolved." ** "Thomas Bennet (1673–1728) was an English clergyman, known for controversial and polemical writings, and as a Hebraist. He was born at Salisbury, England, on 7 May 1673. and was educated at the free school there. He entered St John's College, Cambridge, in 1688, before he was fifteen, took the degrees of B.A. and M.A. (1694), and was chosen Fellow of his college. In 1700, by chance, he went to Colchester on the death of a clergyman friend there, John Rayne, and was called on to preach the funeral sermon; and was appointed to succeed him. He was instituted 15 January 1701. He left Colchester at the end of the decade, and became deputy chaplain to Chelsea Hospital. He preached a funeral sermon at St Olave's Church, Southwark, and was chosen lecturer there. He was appointed morning preacher at St Lawrence Jewry under John Mapletoft, and was also presented by the dean and chapter of St Paul's Cathedral to St Giles Cripplegate. The presentation, however, involved him in disputes over a tithe on peas and beans. In 1711, he was created D.D. In 1717 he married Elizabeth Hunt of Salisbury, and by her had three daughters. He died on 9 October 1728. Thomas Emlyn praised him for his "small respect to decrees of councils or mere church authority". In 1695, Hebrew verses by Bennet on the death of Queen Mary were printed in the university collection. His first major publication was An Answer to the Dissenters Plea for Separation, or an Abridgment of the London Cases (1699, 5th edition 1711). In 1701 appeared A Confutation of Popery in three parts. In 1702 he followed up his Answer by A Discourse of Schism. Timothy Shepherd of Braintree answered this work, and Bennet replied in 1703. Bennet found another antagonist in a fellow clergyman in A Justification of the Dissenters against Mr. Bennet's charge of damnable Schism, &c. … By a Divine of the Church of England by Law established, 1705. Bennet's next book was Devotions, viz. Confessions, Petitions, Intercessions, and Thanksgivings, for every day in the week, and also before, at, and after the Sacrament, with Occasional Prayers for all Persons whatsoever. In 1705 Bennet also published A Confutation of Quakerism. B. Lindley answered this in 1710. In 1708, perhaps stung by passing gibes at his own printed prayers, Bennet published A brief History of joint Use of precomposed set Forms of Prayer, and A Discourse of Joint Prayer, and later in the same year A Paraphrase with Annotations upon the Book of Common Prayer, wherein the text is explained, objections are answered, and advice is humbly offered, both to the clergy and the laity, for promoting true devotion to the use of it. In 1710 these works were tacitly vindicated by Bennet in A Letter to Mr. B. Robinson, occasioned by his Review of the Case of Liturgies and their Imposition, and in a Second Letter to Mr. Robinson on the same subject (also 1710). In 1711 he published The Rights of the Clergy of the Christian Church. In 1714, Bennet published Directions for Studying. In 1715 appeared his Essay on the XXXIX Articles. In 1716, he assailed the extruded churchmen of the nonjuring schism in The Nonjurors Separation from the Public Assemblies of the Church of England examined and proved to be schismatical upon their own Principles. In 1718, he published A Discourse of the ever-blessed Trinity in Unity, with an Examination of Dr Clarke's Scriptural Doctrine of the Trinity. Like all his books, these were answered. His idea of the Trinity was Sabellian. In 1726, he gave to the world a small Hebrew Grammar." - See Wikipedia .

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BUDGE, FRANCES ANN.

Annals of the Early Friends. A Series of Biographical Sketches.

London: Samuel Harris & Co, 1886. 2nd ed. Reprinted from the Friends Quarterly Examiner, with preface by Edward Backhouse. Pp.12/481, occasional foxing throughout, pencil notations to rear. Green bevelled cloth, gilt title to front and spine. G.

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CUNNINGHAM, JOHN [ SIGNED BY JOHN W. HALES ]

The Quakers From their Origin Till the Present Time. An International History. By John Cunningham, D.D.

Edinburgh: John Menzies & Co. / London: Hamilton, Adams & Co. / Crieff: George 'Culloch, MD.CCC.LXVIII. [1868 ] . 0. First edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 7.75" x 5.25" x 0.75". pp.15/[1p.]/pp.335 . Grey cloth covered boards. Spine rubbed and dulled. Ink signature to the verso of the front board: "John W. Hales, 1903." Clean English text throughout. A good copy of this scarce book. "John Wesley Hales (Born; Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, Oct. 5, 1836 - Died; London, May 19, 1914), was a British scholar and man of letters. John Wesley Hales was educated at Louth Grammar School, Glasgow High School, Durham Grammar School, Glasgow University and Christ's College, Cambridge, which elected him to a fellowship. He was for some time an assistant master at Marlborough College under George Granville Bradley, as well as examiner at King's College London, and the universities of Wales, New Zealand and Cambridge, and from 1889-93 Clark lecturer on English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge. Until 1903, when he retired, he was professor of English Literature at King's College, London. In May 1901 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge. He married Henrietta Trafford, daughter of judge Richard Leigh Trafford and Eliza Frances Tarleton, in 1867." - See Wikipedia.

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FAWELL, RUTH.

Courage To Grow. A Collection of the Writings of Ruth Fawell.

London: Quaker Home Service, 1989. 0852452039. Rep. "The themes of Courage to Grow are spiritual growth through everyday experience, and the courage this takes. Ruth Fawell has found not only the huge moments of life, but the small trials too, demand courage." Pp.123, minor stain (tea?) to lower closed page edges not affecting the book internally. Paperback, crease to lower front corner. G+.

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FOX, GEORGE / JONES, RUFUS M (EDITOR).

The Journal of George Fox.

Richmond, Indiana: Friends United Press, 1976. 0913406247. Reprinted from the 1908 edition. With an Essay by Henry J.Cadbury. With New Glossary-Index by Howard Alexander. "George Fox's Truth was that all men and women have access within themselves to communion with the Divine. He brought this truth to the lifeless Church during the Commonwealth period in England..The power of his experience affected kings and servants alike and awakened the spirits of those he met as reformer, preacher and healer." Pp.vi/605. Paperback, minor crease to lower front corner tip. VG.

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FRYER, JONATHAN.

George Fox and the Children of the Light.

London: Kyle Cathie, 1991. 1856260240. 1st ed. "Writer and broadcaster Jonathan Fryer..has edited Fox's Journal to sustain its narrative thrust and reveal its social and spiritual influence. He supplements the Journal with a selection of Fox's Epistles and his own illuminating introduction to the man and his times." Pp.32/252. P/b. VG.

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GORMAN, GEORGE H.

Introducing Quakers.

London: Friends Home Service Committee, 1969. 1st ed. This short book is intended to introduce Quakers to people who, while they know little about them, are interested to know more. Pp. 79, 4 b/w photos. P/b. G+.

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GRAHAM, JOHN W.

William Penn. Founder of Pennsylvania .

London: Headley Bros. Publishers, Ltd. [1916]. First edition. 8vo. pp.332 . Clean text with light spotting to page edges. With 24 full-page illustrations (including frontis). Clean gray boards with white titles to front board and spine. VG .

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GRUBB, SARAH .

A Selection From The letters Of The Late Sarah Grubb (Formerly Sarah Lynes) .

Sudbury: Printed nd published by J. Wright, 1848 . 8vo. 23cm x 14cm x 3.5cm. Original blind stamped cloth and gilt title to spine. Inscription to verso front board; "Friends Library, Wilverston." Yellow endpapers. Printed title with inscription dated 1849. Clean English text. Overall a well preserved book. "Minute Of Bury Monthly Meeting. A Minister deceased. Sarah Grubb, of Sudbury, widow of the late John Grubb, aged about sixty-nine years, a minister fifty-two years; who died the 16th day of Third Month, 1842, and was interred in Friend's Burial ground, at Sudbury, the 23rd of the same..".

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GRUBB, EDWARD.

What is Quakerism? An Exposition of the leading Principles and Practices of the Society of Friends, as based on the Experience of "The Inward Light".

London: George Allen and Unwin,1942. 5th printing. Pp.221/3(ads), crease to fep. Blue/green card covers, rubbed. G+.

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GURNEY, JOSEPH JOHN .

Observations On The Religious Peculiarities Of The Society of Friends; by Joseph John Gurney. Second Edition.

London: Published by J. and A. Arch, William Alexander and Son, York; S. Wilkin, Norwich; and A. Constable and co. Edinburgh, 1824 . 8vo. 22cm x 13cm x 2.8cm. pp.12/368 . Contemporary full polished calf. Gilt crest to front board:"The Society Of Writers To The Signet." Spine with 5 raised bands and original red leather title label. Clean English text. Very good for its age. This was Gurney's first book, and one of the best early descriptions of the Quaker creed. Gurney was prominent in philanthropy and social reform; he was much involved in the anti-slavery movement, along with Wilberforce, Clarkson, and Buxton.

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HARVEY, T.EDMUND.

The Rise of The Quakers.

London: National Council of Evangelical Free Churches,1905. 2nd imp. Eras of Nonconformity series.Ex libris. Pp7/180/1, portrait frontis.(George Fox), library stamps, label(Friends Meeting House,Guildford) to fep. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine, edges rubbed. G+.

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HEATHFIELD, MARGARET.

Being Together: Our Corporate Life in the Religious Society of Friends. (Swarthmore Lecture 1994).

London: Quaker Home Service, 1994. 0852452543. 1st ed. "Considering what type of organisation provides the fewest obstacles to the free flowing of the Spirit, Margaret Heathfield addresses the problem of guidance within our individual and corporate lives." Pp.123. P/b. F.

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