Complete Works of Edward Burrough, Volume 2
The second volume of Burrough's collected works — his sustained debates with priests, professors, and opponents of the Quaker movement, marking him as one of the most formidable controversialists of his age.
- Volume 2 of 7
- 400+ pages
- EPUB format
This edition
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- Time to read5.3 hours
- Length75,488 words
- Files1 EPUB, DRM-free
How we get 5.3 hours
This figure is here so you can compare one book against another. Every title on the site is timed from its own word count at the same reading speed — nothing is adjusted book by book — so if this edition says 5.3 hours and another says half that, the second one really is about half the reading. It is a measure of size, in the way a page count is. Your own pace is your own: at the speeds typical adult readers actually manage, this edition runs anywhere from 4.2 hours to 7.2 hours.
What is in this edition
| Modernized text | 74,115 words |
|---|---|
| Introduction, chapter summaries and notes written for this edition | 1,373 words |
| Total | 75,488 words |
The introduction, the chapter summaries and the notes on people, places and unfamiliar terms were written for this edition. They are 1,373 of the 75,488 words above, and they are part of what you are buying.
Counted from the text of the EPUB you receive. Navigation, the title page, the table of contents and the licence page are excluded — they are packaging, not reading.
The reading rate
238 words per minute, for adult silent reading of non-fiction, applied unchanged to every title on the site. We did not pick the number; it is the pooled result of a published meta-analysis. Nothing is adjusted book by book — that consistency is what makes two of these figures worth comparing.
Brysbaert, M. (2019). How many words do we read per minute? A review and meta-analysis of reading rate. Journal of Memory and Language, 109, 104047. doi:10.1016/j.jml.2019.104047
190 studies, 18,573 participants.
The same paper puts most adult readers between 175 and
300 words per minute, and those two speeds give the
4.2 hours and 7.2 hours above.
Because time is words divided by speed, an even range of speeds produces an
uneven range of times, so 5.3 hours sits nearer the fast end of that
range than the middle of it.
If it were a paperback
Roughly 216–302 pages.
Words per printed page is a typesetting convention, not a measurement — it moves with trim size, type size and leading. The range above assumes 250–350 words a page. Friends Illuminated publishes no print edition of this book; the figure is here only because pages are a more familiar size than words.
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About This Edition
In this second volume, Edward Burrough enters into direct controversy with the clergy and learned critics of his day. The debates here are sharp-edged and theologically sophisticated — Burrough had no formal education, yet matched university-trained opponents point for point, drawing on his extensive knowledge of Scripture and his firsthand experience of what he called “the living word.” The major writings collected here include his extended responses to Presbyterian and Independent critics, his careful distinctions between true and false ministry, and his arguments against the tithes system that required all English citizens to support the national church financially.
These debates are not merely historical curiosities. They touch on questions still alive in Christian discourse: What constitutes valid ministry? Who has authority to preach? Is outward learning a help or a hindrance to genuine spiritual guidance? Burrough’s answers, shaped by his Quaker convictions, remain provocative. This edition presents the texts in clear modern English, with enough context to help readers follow arguments that assume familiarity with mid-seventeenth-century theological disputes.
