FRIENDS, in the Power and Life of God dwell, in Unity one with another, that with the Life of God ye may Answer that of God in every one. And Keep down and Low, that nothing may reign, but Life among you; and unto the Power of God be odedient.
And Friends, the going down from the Life and Power into the Changable things, there is the Strife, which the Life is over; by which Power of God all things were made, wherein Wisdom is received to order all things to his Glory.
So, the Seed, Christ in you all know, which doth go over all the Earth, and inherits the Promise of God; that ye may be all Heirs of the Promise of God. And Cease from your own Words, but in the Power live; for it breaks down Rocks, Mountains, old and Sandy Foundation, and the Bond of Iniquity, and makes up the Breach between God and man, and breaks down that, which made the Breach.
So the Seed know one in another, which Seed is Christ; who according to the the Flesh was of Abraham, and according to the Spirit, the Son of God.
And this is the Word of the Lord God to all Friends, and a Charge to you from the Lord God, To live in Peace one with another, and that the Peace, Life and Wisdom of God may rule you all.
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."