"Christ the Seed reigns; and His power is over all, who bruises
the serpent's head, and destroys the devil and his works, and was
before he was. So all of you live and walk in Christ Jesus; that
nothing may be between you and God, but Christ, in whom ye have
salvation, life, rest and peace with God.
"As for the affairs of truth in this land and abroad, I hear
that in Holland and Germany, and thereaway, Friends are in love,
unity, and peace: and in Jamaica, Barbadoes, Nevis, Antigua,
Maryland, and New-England, I hear nothing, but Friends are in
unity and peace. The Lord preserve them all out of the world (in
which there is trouble) in Christ Jesus, in whom there is peace,
life, love, and unity. Amen. My love in the Lord Jesus Christ to
all Friends everywhere in your land, as though I named them.
G. F.
"London, the 10th of the 11th month, 1690" (January 10th, 1691).
[The next day he went to Gracechurch Street Meeting, which was
large and in which he preached a long and powerful sermon,
"opening many deep and weighty things." He then offered prayer,
and the meeting closed. When some Friends came to his room in
White-Hart-Court, later in the day, he told them he had "felt
the cold strike to his heart, as he came out of meeting"; "yet,"
he added, "I am glad I was here (i. e., in the meeting). Now I
am clear, I am fully clear!" Later, when Friends were visiting
him, he said: "All is well; the Seed of God reigns over all and
over death itself. And though I am weak in body, yet the power
of God is over all, and the Seed reigns over all disorderly
spirits." "Lying thus in a heavenly frame of mind, his spirit
wholly exercised towards the Lord," he fell asleep in peace on
the evening of January 13th, 1691. The funeral was attended
by a very large concourse of people, and the body was laid in
the burying-ground near Bunhill Fields, where the grave is now
marked with a modest stone. Few men in the dying hour could say
more truly, "I am clear."]
INDEX.
Abrahams, Galenus, 556
Amsterdam, 551
Audland, John, 154
Baltimore Yearly Meeting, see Maryland Yearly Meeting.
Baptists, 18-20
Barbadoes, 488-492
Barclay, Robert, 549
Barnet, 69
"Battledore, The," 386, 406
Beavor, Vale of, 94, 98
Believers, true, 74
Bennet, Justice, 125, 126
Beverley, 136
Bishop, George, 223
Blood of Christ, 91
Bradstreet, Simon, 378
Bristol, 272, 331, 392, 468, 535
Bunyan, John, 19, 26
Burnyeat, John, 498, 508, 547
Burrough, Edward, 157, 374, 402
Cambridge, 228
Carlisle, 186-191
Carlyle, his characterization of Fox, 67n, 139n
Carolina, 525-528
Charles II., Fox's letter to, 354
Church, The, what it is, 92, 145, 447
Claypole, Lady (Cromwell's daughter), 320
Clergy, 40
Coale, Josiah, 515n
Colchester, 224
Commonwealth Period, its importance, 16
Conventicle Act, 470, 474
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