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
And you, young convinced ones, be you entreated, and exhorted to a
diligent and chaste waiting upon God, in the way of his blessed
manifestation and appearance of himself to you. Look not out, but
within. Let not another’s liberty be your snare. Neither act by
imitation, but sense and feeling of God’s power in yourselves. Crush not
the tender buddings of it in your souls, nor overrun in your desires,
and warmness of affections, the holy and gentle motions of it. Remember
it is a still voice that speaks to us in this day, and that it is not to
be heard in the noises and hurries of the mind; but it is distinctly
understood in a retired frame. Jesus loved and chose solitudes; often
going to mountains, to gardens, and sea-sides, to avoid crowds and
hurries, to show his disciples it was good to be solitary, and sit loose
to the world. Two enemies lie near your states, imagination and liberty;
but the plain, practical, living, holy truth, that has convinced you,
will preserve you, if you mind it in yourselves, and bring all thoughts,
imaginations, and affections to the test of it, to see if they are
wrought in God, or of the enemy, or your ownselves. So will a true
taste, discerning, and judgment, be preserved to you, of what you should
do and leave undone. And in your diligence and faithfulness in this way
you will come to inherit substance: and Christ, the eternal wisdom, will
fill your treasury. And when you are converted, as well as convinced,
then confirm your brethren, and be ready to every good word and work,
that the Lord shall call you to; that you may be to his praise, who has
chosen you to be partakers, with the saints in light, of a kingdom that
cannot be shaken, an inheritance incorruptible, in eternal habitations.
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