The Select Works of William Penn, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Select Works of William Penn, Vol. 1

Now began his ardent defire after pure and fpiritual religion to fhew itfelf'; of which he had before received fome mile or relifh, through the miniftry of Thomas Lee, one of the cople called (bakers for be, with certain other flu ents of that univerfity, withdrawing from the national way of worfhip, held private meet ings for the exercife of religion, where they both preached and prayed among themfelves: this gave great offence to the heads of the college, and he, being but fixreen years of age, was fined for nonconformity. Which {mall ftroke of perfecution not at all abating the fervour of his zeal, he was at length, for perfevering in the like religious practices, expelled the college.

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