AND Friends, keep out of the Worldly-Wise Part, for that will never let People joyn and unite together (in Truth) which enters into the Earth and the Apprehensions of Words; but let Innocency be the Garment, and Truth and Simplicity the Covering. Then in the Innocency ye will have Unity, where there is no Evil Thought, but Love, that thinks no Evil. . . . And let the Weight and Preciousness of Truth be . . . esteemed above all things by you.
For here is my Grief, when I hear anything among Friends that hinders their Unity, and makes a Breach, (whereby the Wrong gets Ground) who should love in the Seed, which breaks the Bond of Iniquity, and makes up all Breaches; in the Seed shine, answer the Witness of God in every one, which bruises the Earthly Part under, that brings forth Briars and Thorns, and spreads over the World, and all the contrary. Therefore all ye, which have known the Power of the Lord God, and have tasted of the Seed of God, Live in that, in which ye come to have Unity; that that Part may be kept down:
And the Wrong Eye, that looks out at one anothers Weaknesses, that must be kept under, even that, where the Heat, and the Burnings and the Enmity is; the Seed of God a-top of all that must be set, in which is the Unity. Therefore . . . come all to the Seed of God in your own selves; for in that is the Vertue to heal, yea all Nations, Slaughterings, Wounds and Cuttings are the other Weapons in the other Part, which is out of the Seed of God, whose End is Peace; in which is the Unity, which is the Top-stone over all the Enmity, and a-top of it is laid, and bruiseth it all down.
I am a Lover of your Soul's Eternal Good, Peace and Unity, in the Kingdom, that stands in the Power, which hath no end.
G.F.
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George Fox (1624 - 1691)
Was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends. This was a group the Lord started through the ministry of George Fox. God called him apart from all other forms of Christendom in his day because of the lack of Biblical obedience and holiness.The emphasis in George Fox's ministry was firstly prophetic. He called out the people of God to show them that they had the Holy Spirit of God and could be taught of Him and not to solely rely on the teachings of ecclesiastical leaders. Secondly, he spoke directly to many ministers in his day to show them they were hirelings and did not have a true shepherds heart for the people of God rather they were seeking after financial gain.
Founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers). George Fox was born in Drayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire, England, the son of Puritan parents. Little is known of his early life, apart from what he wrote in his journal: "In my very young years, I had a gravity and stayedness of mind and spirit not usual in young children. Insomuch that, when I saw old men behave lightly and wantonly toward each other, I had a dislike thereof raise in my heart, and I said within myself, `If ever I come to be a man, surely I shall not do so, nor be so wanton.'"
At the age of 19, he gained deep, personal assurance of his salvation and began to travel as an itinerant preacher, seeking a return to the simple practices of the New Testament. He abhorred technical theology, and preached a faith borne of experience, freshly fed and guided by the immediate presence of the Holy Spirit.
Fox was persecuted almost daily, yet his power of endurance was phenomenal. He was beaten with dogwhips, knocked down with fists and stones, brutally struck with pikestaves, hard beset by mobs, incarcerated eight times in the pestilential jails, prisons, castles and dungeons--yet he went straightforward with his mission as though he had discovered some fresh courage which made him impervious to man's inhumanity.
He undertook as far as possible to let the new life in Christ take its own free course of development in his ministry. He shunned rigid forms and static systems, and for that reason he refused to head a new sect or to start a new denomination, or to begin a new church. He would not build an organization of any kind. His followers at first called themselves "Children of the Light," and later adopted the name "The Society (or Fellowship) of Friends."
Fox preached and traveled for 40 years throughout England, Scotland, Holland, and America. His life demonstrated the truth of his famous saying, "One man raised by God's power to stand and live in the same spirit the apostle and prophets were in, can shake the country for ten miles around."