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Excerpt from Selections From Isaac Penington The name of Isaac Penington is compar atively little known at the present day except among his fellow-believers, the Society of Friends, but his Spirit was so heavenly, his temper so forgiving, his spiritual insight SO deep, that his words have divine nourishment for the soul. His letters, (often written from prison, ) to friends beset with almost every form of temptation and trial, are so full of faith and peace, that they seem worthy to be compared with the spiritual letters of F ene lon. These selections are made from a col lection of his letters published a number of years ago, with some passages from his other writings. I am indebted for important por tions of the introduction, to The Penns and Peningtons of the Seventeenth Century, by Maria Webb. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.