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
words of God into his mouth till he be reformed; let him not take his
name into his mouth till he depart from iniquity; let not him and his
teacher make a profession of the saints’ words, except they intend to
proclaim themselves hypocrites, whose lives are so contrary to the
lives of the saints; whose church hath made itself manifest to be a
cage of unclean birds. You, having a form of godliness, but not the
power, have made them that are in the power your derision, your
by-word, and talk at your feasts. Thy ill savour, John Sawrey, the
country about have smelled, and of thy unchristian carriage all that
fear God have been ashamed; and to them thou hast been a grief; in the
day of account thou shalt know it, even in the day of thy
condemnation. Thou wast mounted up, and hadst set thy nest on high,
but never gottest higher than the fowls of the air. Now thou art run
amongst the beast of prey, and art fallen into the earth; so that
earthliness and covetousness have swallowed thee up. Thy conceitedness
would not carry thee through, in whom was found the selfish principle,
which hath blinded thy eye. Thy back must be bowed down always; for
thy table is already become thy snare.”
G. F.
This Justice Sawrey, who was the first persecutor in that country, was
afterwards drowned.
I wrote also to William Lampitt, the priest of ULVERSTONE, thus:—
“The word of the Lord to thee, O Lampitt! who art a deceiver,
surfeited and drunk with the earthly spirit, rambling up and down in
the Scriptures, and blending thy spirit amongst the saints’
conditions; who hadst a prophecy, as thy father Balaam had, but art
erred from it, as thy father did; one whose fruit hath withered (of
which I am a witness,) and many who have known thy fruit, have seen
the end of it, that it is withered, and do see where thou art in the
blind world, a blind leader of the blind; as a beast wallowing and
tumbling in the earth, and in the lust; one that is erred from the
Spirit of the Lord, of old ordained for condemnation. Thou art in the
seat of the Pharisees, art called of men master, standest praying in
the synagogues, and hast the chief seat in the assemblies; a right
hypocrite in the steps of the Pharisees, and in the way of thy
fathers, the hypocrites, which our Lord Jesus Christ cried woe
against. Such with the light thou art seen to be, and by the light art
comprehended; which is thy condemnation, who hatest it, and will be so
eternally, except thou repent. To thee this is the word of God; for in
Christ’s way thou art not, but in the Pharisees’, as thou mayest read,
Matt, xxiii., and all that own Christ’s words may see thee there.
Christ, who died at Jerusalem, cried woe against such as thou art; and
Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. The woe remains
upon thee, and from under it thou canst never come, but through
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