17th Century
Authors
George Fox
Founder of the Quakers, whose Journal records a life spent seeking and proclaiming the inward light of Christ.
John Bunyan
The tinker of Bedford, whose Pilgrim's Progress has guided more readers than any English book but the Bible.
Robert Barclay
A Scottish Quaker whose Apology gave the Society of Friends its most careful theological defence.
William Penn
The Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, whose maxims and defence of conscience marry plain living to civil liberty.
Works
Martyrs Mirror
A vast collection of the testimonies of Christians who suffered for a believers' baptism, from the apostles onward.