Body language: Barney Smith has words
‘Quoting the spiritual experience of early Friends is not enough.’
Contemporary Quakers tend to put early Quakers on pedestals. This has been important as a way of separating Quakerism from evangelical Christianity of the Victorian era. Evangelicals and early Quakers did after all use the same biblical language, even if they made very different uses of it.
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