My dear friends,—All dwell in the love of God, and in his power and truth, that the presence of the Lord God you all may enjoy, who is the life of you all, and the length of your days [Deut 30:20], who hath the breath of all mankind [Job 12:10], and the spirits of all flesh [Num 16:2] in his hand; and in him you do all live, and move, and have your being [Acts 17:28], who is your rock and salvation [Psa 62:2], <127> and fountain of life [Psa 36:9], and of all your mercies, and of your water of life [Rev 21:6]: and therefore serve, and honour, and fear, and worship him in his spirit and truth [John 4:24]; and that you all may abide in the holy, heavenly and spiritual vine, and in him bring forth heavenly and spiritual fruits [John 15:4f, Gal 5:22], to the glory of God, who sent his son to be a leader [Isa 55:4], and the way to God [John 14:6], who draweth all men up to himself [John 12:32], where he is ascended, to sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus [Eph 2:6], out of all sin and transgression, by which man was driven from God, that made him barren and unfruitful. And therefore, be ye separated from the world to the Lord [Num 6:2, 2 Cor 6:17], by the word which was in the beginning [John 1:1], which divideth the precious from the vile [Jer 15:19]; that by that word ye may be reconciled to God [2 Cor 5:19]; which word reconcileth all things in heaven and in the earth in one [Eph 1:10/Col 1:20]; which word hammereth down that which made twain [Jer 23:29/Eph 2:15]; and so by the glorious everlasting word of life [1 Jn 1:1] you are born again of the immortal seed of God [1 Pet 1:23], and feed upon the milk of this everlasting word [1 Pet 2:2], which liveth, and abideth, and endureth for ever [1 Pet 1:23], and was in the beginning; by which word you have wisdom and salvation, by which wisdom all God's children are justified [Mat 11:19]. The Lord God in his immortal power preserve you, out of all evil, and out of the earth, and over your enemies, within and without, in his everlasting seed Christ, that is over all, to his glory, for ever. Amen.
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."