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
“The devil, the author of enmity, cannot get into this authority,
power, order, nor fellowship of the gospel; nor into this life,
light, nor unity of the faith, which gives victory over him that
hath separated man from God. Into the unity of this faith the
serpent cannot come, nor into the worship of God in Spirit and
truth can the devil come, or any enmity. And they that are in
this, are in unity over him. Therefore, let every one’s faith
stand in the power of God, the glorious gospel; and let all walk
as becomes the gospel, and the order of it. As every one hath
received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him, and let him be
their Lord and Orderer. For the preaching of the gospel of Christ
Jesus is to the intent that all may come to be heirs of the
gospel, and into the possession of it; and to be heirs of Christ
and of his government, of the increase of which there is no end;
who is over all in his righteousness, and over all in his light,
life, power, and dominion. Therefore know one another in his
power, his gospel, which is the authority of your meetings; know
one another in Christ Jesus, who is able to restore man out of the
state of the fall, into the image of God, into that power and
dominion that man had before he fell, and into Himself that never
fell, whence they shall go no more forth. Here is the rock and
foundation of God that stands sure.
“And, Friends, be tender to the tender principle of God in all.
Shun vain disputes and janglings, both amongst yourselves and
others; for that many times is like a blustering wind that hurts
and bruises the tender buds and plants. For the world, though they
have the words, are out of the life; and the apostle’s disputing
with them was to bring them to the life. And those disputers, that
were amongst the Christians, about genealogies, circumcision, and
the law, meats, drinks, and days, came to be the worst sort of
disputers, whom the apostles judged; for such destroyed people
from the faith. Therefore the apostles exhorted the churches, that
every one’s faith should stand in the power of God, and to look at
Jesus, the author of it. There every graft stands in Christ, the
vine, quiet; where no blustering storms can hurt them; there is
safety. There all are of one mind, one faith, one soul, one
spirit, baptized into one body with the one Spirit, and made all
to drink into one Spirit, one church, one head, that is heavenly
and spiritual; one faith in this head, Christ, who is the author
of it, and hath the glory of it; one Lord to order all, who is the
baptizer into this one body. So Christ hath the glory of this
faith out of every man and woman; and God through him hath his
glory, the Creator of all in his power, the gospel that hath
brought life and immortality to light in them; and their faith
standing in it, they know the immortal God, serve and worship him,
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