William Penn vs. Thomas Brooks (Puritan)
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
William Penn
1644 – 1718
William Penn was an English writer, theologian, religious thinker, and influential Quaker who founded the Province of Pennsylvania. An advocate of democracy and religious freedom, Penn was known for his amicable relations and successful treaties with the Lenape native peoples who had resided in present-day Pennsylvania before European colonisation there.
"You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you…"
Thomas Brooks (Puritan)
1608 – 1680
Thomas Brooks (1608–1680) was an English non-conformist Puritan preacher and author.
"Certainly, those persons that shall deny sanctification to be a most sure, sweet, and comfortable evidence of man's justification, they must not only blot out, …"