Howard H Brinton

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Pendle Hill Pamphlet #48, 1949

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The Society of Friends formed the extreme left wing of the English Reformation. Originating in the middle of the seventeenth century, it was a significant part of the religious revolution which accompanied the political revolution under Cromwell. But the Quakers’ true religious affiliation can best be found, not so much in early Puritanism as in the pre-Reformation mystical sects on the continent of Europe . The Society of Friends classified itself as neither Catholic nor Protestant, but as a third form of Christianity.