. . . SO all ye, that are Summoned with Writs . . . because ye cannot pay Tithes, Keep to the Light in you, which comes from Jesus Christ, that with the Light ye may all come to see Jesus, the Sum and Substance, and the End of all the before-mentioned Tithes and Offerings. And so, according to the Light of Christ in them all, speak, that to it their Minds may be guided; and declare the Truth to them, which is agreeable to that of God in every one's Conscience. And bear Witness to the Sum and Substance, Christ Jesus, and shew that forth to them all.
And shew forth the Substance to them . . . shewing to them that ye suffer for Conscience sake . . . if the Spoilers take your Goods, let them go, and let them take the Coat also. . . . For who Contrary to the Light doth act, upon his Actions Condemnation doth come. That so over all the World ye may stand in the Light, which doth it comprehend and condemn; and with it ye may witness to the End of the Shadows. . . .
. . . And none to act anything in your own Wills; But who act Contrary to the Light, and pay Tithes, go to the Changable; and with the Unchangable are cast out from the Children of Light . . . the Children of Light are one in the Light and with the Light see the Body, and Christ Jesus the Head, and are all one in him. To the Light of Christ Jesus in all your Consciences, . . . I speak, that ye may see, what ye act; and that such as are sued for tithes may look to the Sum of Substance, the Unchangable Priest, Christ Jesus.
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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."