The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.Sewel, William
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The History of the Rise, Increase, and Progress of the Christian People Called Quakers: Intermixed with Several Remarkable Occurrencs.
Sewel, William
Society of Friends -- History -- Early works to 1800
We return again to George Fox, whom we left at Derby, in the house of
correction; where about this time a trooper came to him, who said,
that having been in the steeple-house, hearing the priest, exceeding
great trouble came upon him, and that a voice, (which he took to be
that of the Lord,) said to him, ‘Dost thou not know that my servant is
in prison? Go to him for direction.’ G. Fox speaking to his condition,
told him, ‘That which showed him his sins and troubled him for them,
would also show him his salvation; because He that shows a man his
sin, is the same that takes it away.’ Whilst he was thus speaking, the
trooper’s understanding began to be opened concerning the truth, and
he was sensible of God’s mercies, which made him speak boldly in his
quarters among the soldiers, and others, alleging the Scriptures for
what he believed to be truth. He also said, his colonel, (which I take
to be Barton,) was as blind as Nebuchadnezzar, to cast the servant
of the Lord into prison. This so incensed his colonel, that, when at
Worcester fight, the two armies lying near one another, two from the
King’s army challenged any two of the Parliament’s army to fight with
them, the said colonel made choice of him and another to answer the
challenge: and when in the encounter his companion was slain, he drove
both his enemies within a musket-shot of the town, without firing a
pistol at them. Thus he returned victorious; but then he saw the deceit
of the officers, and how wonderfully the Lord had preserved him; and in
process of time becoming sensible that fighting was unlawful for a true
Christian, he laid down his arms, henceforth to fight under the banner
of the Prince of Peace, by entering into the spiritual warfare.
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