William Penn: Spiritual practice

Alex Thomson appreciates the writings of early Friends

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There is something in the writings of the early Friends that speaks to my condition. It is a joy to feel that connection to those first Quakers.

From the Pendle Hill pamphlet 167 about William Penn: mystic Elizabeth Gray Vining offers the following quote from A Tender Visitation in the Love of God:

Do you sit down in true silence, resting from your own will and workings, and waiting upon the Lord, with your minds fixed in that Light wherewith Christ has enlightened you, until the Lord breathes life in you, refresheth you and prepares your spirits and souls, to make you fit for His service, that you may offer unto Him a pure and spiritual sacrifice?

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