Excerpt from An Epistle to the Churches of Jesus, Throughout the World, Gathered and Settled in His Eternal Light, Power, and Spirit, to Be One Holy Flock, Family and Household to the Lord
Who have been visited with the fatherly visi tation from on high, and have received God's eternal word and testament in your hearts, by which you have been gathered home to Christ Jesus, the true Shepherd, from all the idol-shep herds, and their barren mountains and unprofitable hills; where you have been scattered in the dark and gloomy day of apostasy; and by his light, Spirit. And power havebeen convinced of sin, righ teousness, and judgment; and can say, the prince of this world is judged by his holy, righteous, and powerful appearance in you, unto whom all judg mentin heaven and earth is committed; who is the blmsed Lamb of God, the Light and Saviour of the world; who is King of Salem, and Prince of Peace my soul loves you with everlasting love, even with the love with which my God and your God, my Father and your Father hath loved me, and visited my soul and your souls; in this, do I dearly salute and embrace you all, in this the day of the fulfilling of his glorious promises to his church in the wilderness, and wimeuu'mmkcmn.
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William Penn was an English founder and "Absolute Proprietor" of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future U.S. State of Pennsylvania. He was known as an early champion of democracy and religious freedom and famous for his good relations and his treaties with the Lenape Indians. Under his direction, Philadelphia was planned and developed.
As one of the earlier supporters of colonial unification, Penn wrote and urged for a Union of all the English colonies in what was to become the United States of America. The democratic principles that he set forth in the Pennsylvania Frame(s) of Government served as an inspiration for the United States Constitution. As a pacifist Quaker, Penn considered the problems of war and peace deeply, and included a plan for a United States of Europe, "European Dyet, Parliament or Estates," in his voluminous writings.
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