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A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel
Autor: Crisp, Stephen
Nakladatelství:
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ISBN: 9781443206129
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1106 Kč
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1006 Kč
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Excerpt: Stephen Crisp INTRODUCTION Writings of the first Quakers, even minor writings, often kindle in us today an ardor to seek what they sought and to find what they found. The excellent book by Luella M. Wright entitled ""The Literary Life of the Early Friends, 1650-1725"" is a pleasant and convenient introduction to these numerous and often lengthy productions of which 2600 have been listed for the first 75 years. Among them all, Luella Wright singles out one allegory; the only one, and it remained unpublished fully two decades after its composition. Why was this? Was it because, though the author was as sound a thinker and as persuasive an author as any among the followers of George Fox, an imaginary pilgrimage was inherently suspect, while the record of actual experiences in the form of a journal was not? Be this as it may, the slight loosening of standards with the opening of the eighteenth century allowed the ""Second Day's Morning Meeting,"" which then censored Quaker manuscripts, to approve for printing ""A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel."" It was put out in 1711. How entertaining it would be to know the number of copies that were printed in that first edition. Stephen Crisp was a famous preacher. ""He had a gift of utterance beyond many"" said his brethren in Colchester at the time of his decease. He was listened to by many outside the Society of Friends and his sermons, together with the prayer at the end of every one of them, were ""exactly taken in character,"" that is in shorthand ""as they were delivered ... in the meeting houses of the people called Quakers."" Though Stephen Crisp's letters, sermons, and journal promptly appeared in print and were widely circulated, the ""Short History"" remained after his death in the bundle of his papers in Colchester. John Bunyan's famous book ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" had appeared with its primitive woodcuts in 1678. It received immediate recognition and in due time was acclaimed the greatest...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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