A Guide to True Peace
A Guide to True Peace is an anonymous nineteenth-century Quaker devotional anthology on inward and spiritual prayer, first published in 1813 and later attributed to the British Friends William Backhouse and James Janson. Its title page describes the work as compiled chiefly from the writings of François Fénelon, Madame Guyon, and Miguel de Molinos, three figures associated with seventeenth-century
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A Guide to True Peace is an anonymous nineteenth-century Quaker devotional anthology on inward and spiritual prayer, first published in 1813 and later attributed to the British Friends William Backhouse and James Janson. Its title page describes the work as compiled chiefly from the writings of François Fénelon, Madame Guyon, and Miguel de Molinos, three figures associated with seventeenth-century Catholic Quietism. The book teaches a form of silent, inward prayer in which the soul turns from outward...
