1666
English
Women's Speaking Justified
Margaret Fell · 1614–1702
A scriptural argument that women may preach — from the women at the tomb, from Priscilla, and from the claim that in Christ there is neither male nor female.
1601–1700
The Seventeenth Century
7 works
1669, expanded 1682
English
No Cross, No Crown
William Penn · 1644–1718
Written in the Tower of London: an attack on worldly pride, titles, luxury, and hat honour, with a long anthology of testimonies against them.
Quaker · TreatiseRead elsewhere
1676
Latin
An Apology for the True Christian Divinity
Robert Barclay · 1648–1690
Fifteen propositions setting out Quaker belief systematically — the inward light, the universal saving seed, silent worship, and refusal of oaths and war.
Quaker · Systematic theologyRead elsewhere
18 February 1688
English
The Germantown Petition Against Slavery
Francis Daniel Pastorius and the Germantown Quakers
Four Quakers ask what right anyone has to buy and keep men as slaves, and whether the golden rule is not as binding for black people as for white.
Quaker · PetitionRead elsewhere
1693
English
Some Fruits of Solitude
William Penn · 1644–1718
Maxims on marriage, money, government, and death, written in a period of political disgrace by the founder of Pennsylvania.
Quaker · AphorismsRead elsewhere
1693
English
An Exhortation and Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes
George Keith · c. 1638–1716
An argument that Friends should neither buy nor keep enslaved people, and should set free those they hold after a term of service.
Quaker · TractRead elsewhere
dictated c. 1673–1676; published 1694
English
The Journal
George Fox · 1624–1691
The founder of the Quakers records his search, the opening that Christ can speak to a person's condition directly, and years of imprisonment for refusing oaths and hat-honour.
Quaker · AutobiographyRead elsewhere