The journal of George Fox, vol. 1 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.Fox, George
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The journal of George Fox, vol. 1 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.
Fox, George
Fox, George, 1624-1691
The next day we passed on; for the Lord had said unto me, “If but one
man or woman were raised up by His power, to stand and live in the same
Spirit that the prophets and apostles were in, who gave forth the
Scriptures, that man or woman should shake all the country in their
profession for ten miles round.” For people had the Scriptures, but not
in that same light, and power, and Spirit, which they were in that gave
forth the Scriptures; and so they neither knew God, nor Christ, nor the
Scriptures aright; nor had they unity one with another, being out of the
power and Spirit of God. Therefore as we passed along we warned all
people, wherever we met them, of the day of the Lord that was coming
upon them.
As we travelled we came near a very great hill, called PENDLE-HILL, and
I was moved of the Lord to go up to the top of it; which I did with
difficulty, it was so very steep and high. When I was come to the top, I
saw the sea bordering upon Lancashire. From the top of this hill the
Lord let me see in what places he had a great people to be gathered. As
I went down I found a spring of water in the side of the hill, with
which I refreshed myself, having eaten or drunk but little for several
days before.[15]
Footnote 15:
The spring here alluded to is called George Fox’s Well to this day.
At night we came to an inn, and declared truth to the man of the house,
and wrote a paper to the priests and professors, declaring “the day of
the Lord, and that Christ was come to teach people himself, by his power
and Spirit in their hearts, and to bring people off from all the world’s
ways and teachers, to his own free teaching, who had bought them, and
was the Saviour of all them that believed in Him.” The man of the house
spread the paper abroad, and was mightily affected with the truth. Here
the Lord opened unto me, and let me see a great people in white raiment
by a river side, coming to the Lord; and the place that I saw them in
was about WENSLEYDALE and SEDBERGH.
The next day we travelled on, and at night got a little fern or brackens
to put under us, and lay upon a common. Next morning we reached a town,
where Richard Farnsworth parted from me; and then I travelled alone
again. I came up Wensleydale, and at the market-town in that Dale, there
was a lecture on the market-day. I went into the steeple-house; and
after the priest had done, I “proclaimed the day of the Lord to the
priest and people, warning them to turn from darkness to the light, and
from the power of Satan unto God, that they might come to know God and
Christ aright, and to receive his teaching, who teacheth freely.”
Largely and freely did I declare the word of life unto them, and had not
much persecution there. Afterwards I passed up the Dales, warning people
to fear God, and preaching the everlasting gospel to them.
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