A Call to Repentance – William Penn – 1745 | Quaker Doctrine & Protestant Morals

A Call to Repentance by William Penn is a 1745 printing of Quaker doctrine and a plea for readers to turn from their sin and repent. Based on Penn’s own Address to Protestants, this book focuses on a series of noteworthy sins and vices calling the horrors of each out specifically. Penn calls out these principal themes: restraint from indulgence in luxury, warnings against gaming and gambling, condemnation of profanity and blasphemy, rebuke of drunkenness, and denunciation of sexual immorality.

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A call to repentance : recommended to the inhabitants of Great Britain in general
• Author(s): William Penn
• Illustrator(s):
• Contributor(s):
• Publisher: London, T. Sowle Raylton and Luke Hinde
• Edition: First edition. 1745.
• Format: (8vo), single volume
• Binding: Hardcover
• Size:  7.75 in x 5 in (19.7 cm x 12.7 cm)
• Collation: 42pp
• Illustrations:
• Contents Include:
  • On living in excess and the sin of luxury
  • On the evils of gaming and gambling
  • On sins of oaths, cursing, and blaspheming
  • On drunkenness
  • On the sin of whoredom and fornication

Condition:

Very Good. The modern hardcover is secure with gilt ornamentation on the front cover. The pages are clean, the text block is solid, and the book presents with a bright and stable appearance.

Why Collect This?

• A rare 1745 Quaker printing from London
• Issued by notable Quaker printers Raylton and Hinde

Item Number: # 29244