Historical and biographical sketches / by Samuel W. Pennypacker.
- Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Historical and biographical sketches / by Samuel W. Pennypacker. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![the settlement of Pennsjdvania. The doctrine of the inner liglit was by no means a new one in Holland and Ger- many, and the dead letter of the Scriptures is a thought common to David Joris, Caspar Schwenckfeldt, and the modern Quaker. The similarity between the two sects has been manifest to all observers, and recognized by themselves. William Penn, writini; to James Logan of some emigrants in 1709, says: 'Herewith comes the Palatines, whom use with tenderness and love, and fix them so that they may send over an agreeable character ; for they are a sober people, divers Mennonists, and will neither swear nor fight. See that Guy has used them well.^ Thomas Chalkley, writing from Holland the same year, says: There is a great people which they call Mennonists who are very near to truth, and the fields are white unto harvest among that people spirit- ually speaking.^ When Ames,'* Caton, Stubbs, Penn, and others of the early Friends went to Holland and Germany, they were received with the utmost kindness by the Mennonites, which is in strong contrast with their treatment at the hands of the established churches. The strongest testimon}'' of this character, however, is given by Thomas Story, the recorder of deeds in Pennsyl- vania, who made a trip to Holland and Germany in 1715. There he preached in the Mennonite nipeting houses at Hoorn, Holfert, Drachten, Goredyke, Heerveen, Jever, Oudeboone, Grow, Leeuwarden, Dokkum, and Heuleven, while at Malkwara no meeting was held because a Per- son of note among the Menists being departed this life, ' Penn Logan Correspondence, vol. ii. ]). 354. ' Works of Thomas Chalkley, Phila. 1749, p. 70. '■' William Ames, an accession to Quakeiism from the Baptists^ was the first to go to Holland and Germany, and it was he who made the converts in Amsterdam and Krisheim.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2100853x_0032.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
