An Epistle to Friends Concerning the Present and Succeeding Times: Being a Faithful Exhortation and Warning to all Friends, who Profess the Truth, to Beware of the Manifold Wiles of the Enemy
London: James Philips, 1780. Original Wrappers. Good binding. Item #8847
Octavo. 32 pp. In original, plain wrappers; original stitching perished, now renewed. Generally, edgeworn and soiled with six-digit number rubber-stamped on the front wrapper; some dog-earing, shallow closed tears and chipping.
Originally issued in 1666, this is an important publication by the 17th century Quaker who at the time was urging member to follow the central tenets of the Quaker faith and not put trust wholly in the clergy, of whom he was suspicious. The preface of this copy points to the insecurity around the American Revolution. It states: "The ensuing Tract is re-published at the Request of several Friends, who thought it might be of Service to settle the the [sic] Minds of many in these unstable Times, and incline them to look Home to that Rock which has been, is, and will be, the only Safety for the Righteous, in all Storms and Trials of every Kind which may attend them in this Life: and it thought necessary to reprint it for the general Service at this Time, wherein there are such Commotions, Wars, and Rumours of Wars in the Earth" p. 3. An import tract reissued in an important time. ESTC N9235. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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