. . . AND so the Unity of all the Saints is in that, which condemns the World. And all who live in their own Wills, and yet make a Profession of the Scriptures, there are the Sects and Opinions, and there is no Unity, and they have not Unity amongst themselves. . . . And ye all walking in this Light, it will bring you to all Plainness and Singleness of Speech; which will make the Deceit to tremble and the Mystery of Iniquity to shake. . . . So, dwell all in the Eternal Power of God, and in his pure Light, that ye may be a Terror to all Evil-Doers, and to all Ungodliness, and to all who act Unrighteously, and live in Uncleanness. . . .
And all who are out of Plainness, with the Eternal Light, which Christ hath enlightned them withal, shall they be condemned and confounded in Time. For this Light was before Time, and is in Time, which lets every Man and Woman see their Actions done in Time; and hating this Light, this is their Condemnation. . . . But all loving this Light, and walking in this Light, . . . And abiding in Christ, who is the Vine, every one will come to witness your selves to be as Branches abiding in the Vine, and sitting under the Vine.
This was I moved of the Lord to send out abroad among you as a Message to all the Plants of the Lord.
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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."