Gleanings from the Works of George FoxRichardson, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller)
Philosophy
Gleanings from the Works of George Fox
Richardson, Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller)
Fox, George, 1624-1691; Society of Friends -- Doctrines
Now if thou waitest in Christ and mindest him in thee (and then waitest
for his appearing) and keepest within and dost not follow Lo, here's
Christ, Lo, there's Christ, without thee, thou wilt have peace presently
and witness him, who is the substance of the prophets and apostles and
the Scriptures, made manifest in thee to guide to the father, the Lord
God of heaven and earth; and waiting for the spirit of the Lord within
thee to guide thy mind thou wilt find thy strength daily renewed.
(C. J., I., p. 95.)
The Cleansing Light.
Ye are sanctified through the obedience of the spirit.
(C. J., I., p. 95.)
This spirit circumciseth and puts off the body of sin.
(_Ibid._)
To that which doth command all these spirits where heats and burnings
come in, in that wait which cleans them down and cools.
(C. J., I., p. 320.)
The Revealing Light.
Who art thou that queriest in thy mind what is that which I feel that
condemneth me when I do evil and justifieth me when I do well, what is
it? I will tell thee. Lo! He that formeth the mountains and created the
winds and declareth unto man what is his thoughts, that maketh the
morning darkness and tradeth upon high places of the earth. The Lord,
the God of Hosts is his name.
(_Journal Friends' Hist. Soc._, Vol. IX., p. 80, from a MS.)
Though you see little and know little and have little, 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.
(_Works_, VII., p. 24.)
The Regulating Light.
Therefore have salt in yourselves and be low in heart. The light is low
in you and it will teach you to be low and to learn that lesson of Jesus
Christ to the plucking down all high thoughts and imaginations.
(_Works_, VII., p. 90.)
The Discerning Light.
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