TO all of you, My dear Friends, who have tasted of the immediate, working Power of the Lord, . . . and do see, from whence doth Vertue come, and Strength that doth renew the Inward Man, and doth refresh you. . . . To you all I say, Wait upon God in that which is pure. Tho' you see little, and know little, and have little, and see your Emptiness, and see your Nakedness, and Barrenness, and Unfruitfulness, and see the Hardness of your Hearts, and your own Unworthiness; it is the Light that discovers all this, and the Love of God to you, and it is that which is Immediate, but the dark Understanding cannot comprehend it. So, wait upon God in that which is pure, in your Measure, and stand still in it every one to see your Saviour, to make you free from that which the Light doth discover to you (to be Evil).
For the Voice of the Bridegroom is heard in our Land; and Christ is come amongst the Prisoners, to visit them in the Prison-Houses; they have all Hopes of releasment and free Pardon and to come out freely, for the Debt is paid; wait for the Manifestation of it, and he that comes out of Prison, shall reign. . . .
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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."