Seekers (Sect)

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Name (Hebrew)
סיקרים (כת)
Name (Latin)
Seekers (Sect)
Name (Arabic)
الباحثون (طائفة)
See Also From tracing topical name
Dissenters, Religious England
Puritans
Society of Friends
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q1479542
Library of congress: sh 85119570

Wikipedia description:

The Seekers, or Legatine-Arians as they were sometimes known, were an English dissenting group that emerged around the 1620s, probably inspired by the preaching of three brothers – Walter, Thomas, and Bartholomew Legate. Seekers considered all organised churches of their day corrupt and preferred to wait for God's revelation. Many of them subsequently joined the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

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