FRIENDS, to you all this is the Word of the Lord: Take heed of Judging one another. . . . (I charge you in the Presence of the Lord) . . . neither lay open one another's weaknesses behind one another's Backs. . . .
But every one of you in particular with the Light of Christ (which he hath enlightened you withal) see your selves, that Self may be Judged out with the Light in every one. Now, all loving the Light, here no Self can stand, but it is Judged with the Light; and here all are in Unity, and here no Self-will can arise, nor no Mastery; but all that is Judged out. And let there be no Back-biting amongst you; but in Love, ye that dwell in the Light, and see clear, speak to the others, whose minds are gone from the Light: Else . . . if ye do speak behind their backs, there will be the Evil Eye and Filthy mind, which dare not speak to their Faces . . . and so Self should be Judged first. Here ye will be kept watchful in the pure Fear and Love of God, and all Self will be Judged out from amongst you. . . .
And take heed (I charge you all in the Presence of the Living God) of a feigned Humility and a feigned Love, which is out of the Light, and then that to use as a Customary Salutation or a Formal Gesture; which is all for Condemnation and to be kept out. . . . So see, that all your Actings be in and from the Light; here ye will be kept clean and pure and will come to be sealed in the Everlasting Covenant of God with the Light, which comes from Christ.
. . . So, dwelling all in the Light, which is Unchangable, ye come to Judge all the Changable Ways and Worships that are Variable and Changable by that which comes from God which changeth not; and with his Light, which he hath given, all those things are Judged. So dwelling in the Judgment, ye will be filled full of Mercy; for first Judgment and then Mercy is to spread over all, that the Just may rule over all.
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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."