Our Isaac Penington Study Group has now completed the 34th and final session of a 17-month study of Penington’s tract “Some of the Mysteries of God’s Kingdom Glanced At.” On the 26th of last month, we began to read a tract written by James Nayler, another seventeenth-century Friend. The tract is titled “The Lamb’s War against the Man of Sin.”[1] Because we are now studying Nayler and not Penington, I have changed the title of the YouTube channel to “Early Quaker Study Group.”
In this first session–beginning around the 19-minute mark and ending around the 50-minute mark–is a discussion on the nature of this war, as it is found among Quakers today; the necessity of individual responsibility; and the way this war can be waged. The title of this first discussion is “Nayler, Session #1, 3/26/25.”
Index and Contact Pages
This month marks nine years that I’ve been blogging here at Abiding Quaker, and as the essays are catalogued on the main page only by the month in which they were posted, locating a particular piece can be difficult. As a result, I have created a new page in the menu that contains an index that lists essay titles in alphabetical order. Each title is linked to its essay, so access should be quick and easy.
This past week a person from a Middle Eastern country became a subscriber, and as he was the first from that particular country ever to visit the site (according to the statistics that the web provider offers), I was elated and spoke to my daughter about wishing I could know more about what drew readers to the site and what interested them most about Quaker faith. She suggested I create a Guest Book and ask these questions, but that is beyond my technical ability at present. If anyone would care to answer these questions, however, there is room to do so on the Contact page. No pressure though!
- The Works of James Nayler, vol.4, pp.1-21 Farmington, Maine: Quaker Heritage Press, 2003-2009.
Detail of Adoration of the Mystic Lamb, 1432 Hubert van Eyck and Jan van Eyck
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