A Book of Quaker SaintsHodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
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A Book of Quaker Saints
Hodgkin, L. V. (Lucy Violet)
Society of Friends
This Gaoler was one of the first people whose Tiger spirits were tamed
by George Fox. But he certainly was not the last. Fox himself had told
the soldiers in Derby market-place that he could not fight, because he
'lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the
occasion of all wars.' As a friend of his wrote, after his death many
years later: 'George Fox was a discerner of other men's spirits, AND
VERY MUCH A MASTER OF HIS OWN.'
FOOTNOTES:
[2] Two men who were executed for small offences he could not save,
but 'a little time after they had suffered their spirits appeared to
me as I was walking, and I saw the men was well.'
V. 'THE MAN IN LEATHER BREECHES'
_'As I was walking I heard old
people and work people to say: "he
is such a man as never was, he
knows people's thoughts" for I
turned them to the divine light of
Christ and His spirit let them see
... that there was the first step
to peace to stand still in the
light that showed them their sin
and transgression.'--G. FOX._
_'Do not look at but keep over all
unnaturalness, if any such thing
should appear, but keep in that
which was and is and will be.'--G.
FOX._
_'Wait patiently upon the Lord;
let every man that loves God,
endeavour by the spirit of wisdom,
meekness, and love to dry up
Euphrates, even this spirit of
bitterness that like a great river
hath overflowed the earth of
mankind.'--GERRARD WINSTANLEY.
1648._
_'Blessed is he who loves Thee,
and his friend in Thee, and his
enemy for Thy sake.'--AUGUSTINE._
_'Eternity is just the real world
for which we were made, and which
we enter through the door of
love.'--RUFUS M. JONES._
V. 'THE MAN IN LEATHER BREECHES'
22nd Dec. 1651.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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