The Christian Gospel calls women and men into full participation with God's realm of love and truth. Seventeenth-century Quaker women preached and traveled in the ministry with a powerful understanding in tracts of proclamation, journals, travel narratives, letters, and epistles; this volume includes thirty-six original texts with interpretive introductions. Their writings are life-giving to the discourse of lay clergy, ordained ministers, serious religious seekers, and academic researchers in religion, history, and women's studies.