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
While G. Fox was thus preaching, many old people went into the chapel,
and looked out at the windows, thinking it a strange thing to see a
man preach on a hill, and not in the church, (as they called it.) He
perceiving this said, That the steeple-house, and the ground whereon
it stood, was no more holy than that hill; and that those temples,
which they called the dreadful houses of God, were not set up by the
command of God and Christ; nor their priests instituted as Aaron’s
priesthood was; nor their tithes appointed by God, as those amongst the
Jews were; but that Christ was come, who ended both the temple, and
its worship, and their priests and their tithes; and that therefore
all ought to hearken unto him; for he said, “Learn of me;” and God
said of him, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, hear
ye him,” In conclusion, he said, ‘That the Lord God had sent him to
preach the everlasting gospel, and word of life amongst them; and to
bring them off from all these temples, tithes, priests, and rudiments
of the world, which were gotten up since the apostles’ days, and had
been set up by such as had erred from the spirit and power the apostles
were in.’ Thus preached G. Fox, and his ministry was at that time
accompanied with such a convincing power, and so reached the hearts of
the people, that many, and even all the teachers of that congregation,
who were many, were convinced of that Truth which was declared to them.
After this meeting was over, G. Fox went to John Audland’s who, as well
as Francis Howgill, and others, had been quite brought over by his
effectual preaching. And as these had been zealous preachers amongst
those of their former persuasion, so it was not long before they became
publishers of that doctrine, which now, by the ministry of G. Fox they
had embraced; and were so far from approving their former service,
that they gave back the money they received for their preaching to the
parish of Colton in Lancashire; being now resolved to give freely what
they had received freely. And here I shall make some small digression,
in saying something concerning these two excellent men.
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