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God'S Mighty Power Magnified: As Manifested And Revealed In His Faithful Handmaid Joan Vokins: Also Some Account Of Her Exercises, Works Of Faith, ... Work Of The Ministry, For The Good Of Souls - Softcover

Vokins, Joan

 
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Synopsis

Across the roads and meetinghouses of seventeenth century England, Joan Vokins records a faith that refused to be quiet. Hear a woman's conscience speak. God's Mighty Power Magnified is a quaker spiritual journal and religious memoir and testimony drawn from the lived pressures of early modern religious dissent. Vokins, one of the notable women in quaker ministry, traces her inward leadings, trials, and steadfast public service as she travels among Friends and beyond, offering works of faith narratives marked by plain speech and urgent compassion. Read as a complete quaker travel journal, it carries the texture of ministry on the move: warnings delivered, comfort offered, and the hard logistics of obedience. Its plain prose reads like spiritual autobiography, rewarding casual readers and classic-literature collectors alike. For readers seeking christian devotional reading, her pages stand as divine providence testimonies where guidance is tested against fear, illness, opposition, and the demands of daily life. For quaker history researchers and collectors of the george fox journal era, Vokins provides a rare first-person angle on the formation of Quaker witness, and an essential strand in any quaker women's writings collection: a record of how spiritual authority was claimed, contested, and exercised by a woman in public religious work. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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