TO all my Dear Brethren, whom the God of Power hath enlightned with his External Light, and discovered unto you his Way of Truth, and brought you out of the dark ways, where in ye have walked; which dark ways all the World walks in: But where the pure Light of God is witnessed, it guides to himself. The Light is but one, which leads out of Darkness and the dark World, into the World which is without an End.
Therefore all Friends and Brethren in the Eternal Truth of God, walk in it up to God, and be not Sayers (only) nor Backsliders: for the Backslider is a Sayer, and not a Doer, and there ariseth Ambition, Pride and Presumption. But dwell in the pure Light, which God hath made manifest to you in your Understanding, and turn your Minds to him, and walk as Children of the Light. . . . Wait for the Presence of the Great God, and our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; and be not so Childish, as to be tossed with Men's Words without Life. . . . But wait everyone in particular (in the Measure, that God hath given you) upon God, in the Fear of God, then your Hearts will be kept clean; and this is the sure Way. . . . All loving the Light, ye love the one thing, which gathers your Hearts together to the Fountain of Light and Life; and walking in it, ye have Unity with one another. . . .
But waiting all upon God in that which is of God, ye are kept open to receive the Teachings of God . . . and to walk out of your own Ways, and out of your own Thoughts. . . . So, dwelling in the Spirit, it keepeth all your Hearts to God: to whom be all Praise, Honour, and Glory for ever.
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."