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
From hence he passed on, the priest continuing to go with him, as did
several others; and as they went along, some people called to the
priest, and said, ‘Mr. Boyes, we owe you some money for tithes, pray
come and take it.’ But he throwing up his hand, said, he had enough,
and would have none of it; they might keep it; and he praised the Lord
he had enough. At length they came into this priest’s steeple-house in
the moors; and the priest going before, held open the pulpit door: but
G. Fox told him, he would not go into it. And this steeple-house being
very much painted, he told him and the people, that the painted beast
had a painted house. Then he spoke to them concerning the rise of all
those houses, and their superstitious ways; and he told them that, as
the end of the apostles’ going into the temples and synagogues, was not
to hold them up, but to bring people to Christ, the substance; so the
end of his coming there, was not to hold up these temples, priests, and
tithes, but to bring them off from all these things, to Christ, the
substance. Moreover, he declared to them what the true worship was,
which Christ had set up; and he distinguished Christ, the true way,
from all the false ways; opening the parables to them, and turning them
from darkness to the true light, that by it they might see themselves
and their sins, and Christ their Saviour, that so believing in him,
they might be saved from their sins.
After this, he went to the house of one Birdet, where he had a
great meeting, and the priest Boyes accompanied him still, leaving
his steeple-house. Then he returned towards Cranswick, to Captain
Pursloe’s, and Justice Hotham’s, who received him kindly, being glad
that truth was spread, and so many had received it. And Justice Hotham
said, ‘If God had not raised up this principle of light and life, which
G. Fox preached, the nation had been overrun with Ranterism, and all
the justices in the nation could not have stopped it with all their
laws: because, (said he,) they would have said as we said, and done as
we commanded, and yet have kept their old principle still: but this
principle of truth overthrows their principle, and the root and ground
thereof.’
Now, though G. Fox found good entertainment, yet he did not settle
there, but kept in continual motion, going from one place to another,
to beget souls unto God. I do not intend to relate all his occurrences,
but will give a short hint only of some of the chief.
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