Exposition succincte de l'origine et des progrès du peuple qu'on appelle les Quakers ou les Trembleurs
Subtitle: oû l'on declare ingenûment leur principe fondamental, leurs doctrines, leur culte, leur ministère, et leur discipline. Avec un abregé des précedentes oeconomies ou dispensations de Dieu du monde, par voie d'introduction
By: Par Guillaume Penn. A quoi l'on a ajouté un des temoignages rendus à la lumière, par George Fox. ; Le tout traduit de l'Anglois par Claude Gay
Contributors: Gay, Claude, 1707?-1786; Fox, George, 1624-1691
Publisher: Imprimé par Luc Hinde demeurant dans George-Yard en Lombard-Street
Published: 1764
Place of publication: A Londres
Language: fre
Number of pages: 109
Subjects: Controversial literature; Doctrines; Quakers; History
Work titles: Brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers
Notes: A translation by Claude Gay of: A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers. In which their fundamental principle, doctrines, worship, ministry and discipline are plainly declared to prevent the mistakes and perversions that ignorance and prejudice may make to abuse the credulous. With a summary relation of the former dispensations of God in the world, by way of introduction, first printed London, 1694.

"Instruction pour tous ceux qui voudront connoître le chemin du royaume .... ecrite en 1653 par un de ceux que le monde appele par moquerie les Quakers ou les Trembleurs", p. [89]-109, by George Fox is a translation of "To all that would know the way to the kingdom, whether they be in forms, without forms, or got above all forms. A direction to turn your minds within, where the voice of the true God is to be heard, whom you ignorantly worship as afar off. and [sic] to wait upon him for the true wisdom. That you may know truth from error, the word from the letter, the power from form, and the true prophets from the false", first printed [London], 1653 and has divisional title page.

Signatures: A-O⁴ P² (P1, P2 blank)

Errata: p. [2], 3rd count.

Sabin 59694.

English short title catalogue T87153.

Smith, J. Friends' books, II:314.

John Carter Brown Library copy bound in contemporary full smooth calf.

John Carter Brown Library copy acquired with the assistance of the Harper Fund.