The journal of George Fox, vol. 2 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. 2 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.
Fox, George
Fox, George, 1624-1691
He married and settled in Ireland, where his service mostly lay in
his latter days. In 1683 he was imprisoned in the Marshalsea in
Dublin two months for meeting and preaching. His wife died in
1688; and he, having finished his course, and kept the faith,
departed in peace in 1690. His works, and testimonies concerning
him, with an account of his convincement, and journal of his
travels, were published in a 4to volume, to which the reader is
referred. See also _Piety Promoted_, vol. i. p. 179; and Whiting’s
_Memoirs_, p. 416-430.
Footnote 27:
The instances of heathen kindness and hospitality, experienced by
George Fox and others who have visited the Indians in a friendly
manner, contrast very favourably in comparison with the many acts
of bigoted intolerance and cruelty recorded in these volumes on
the part of those professedly civilized and Christian.
Many incidents might be related in proof of Indian kindness when
unprovoked to opposite conduct. When the Quakers were under a
cruel persecution by the magistrates of Boston, in New England,
Nicholas Upshal, “a man of unblameable conversation,” and a church
member of their communion, showed the sufferers kindness, by
giving five shillings a week to the jailer to let those confined
in prison have the sustenance necessary for life—_the magistrates
having caused the jail window to be boarded up, that none might
communicate with, or help them_. He proceeded afterwards to reason
with the magistrates, and warn them not to be found fighting
against God, for which he was fined £20, imprisoned, and then
banished; though a weakly old man, and the season the depth of
winter. In his banishment in the wilderness, he met an Indian,
who, having understood how he had been dealt with, took compassion
on him, and very kindly told him, _if he would live with him he
would make him a warm house_; and further said, “What a God have
these English, who deal so with one another about their God!”
See here the Red Indian’s kindly care
Though he the name of _savage_ bear.
Christian, more savage thou than he,
Blush for thy cruel deeds of infamy:
The Indian’s unasked cup of charity
Is larger than as mixed by thee.
The white man aged, through frost and snows,
A banish’d exile to his country goes,
Full many a welcome does he say,
To his warm house whate’er the day.
More Christian he who thus does prove
By practice kindred with a God of love.
More Christian he than they who thus pollute
Their faith, and for their God a brother persecute.
Footnote 28:
See Bowden’s _History of Friends in America_, vol. i., pp.
280-284.
Footnote 29:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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