The journal of George Fox, vol. 2 of 2 : $b Being an historical account of his life, travels, sufferings, and Christian experiences.Fox, George
Religion
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
“For the Lord God and his Son Jesus Christ, is come to teach his
people, and to bring them from all the world’s ways, to Christ,
the way, the truth, and the life, who is the way to the Father;
and from all the world’s teachers and speakers, to him the Speaker
and Teacher, as Heb. i. 1.; and from all the world’s worshippers,
to worship God in the Spirit and in the truth, (which the devil,
the destroyer, is out of;) which worship Christ set up above
sixteen hundred years ago, when he put down the Jews’ worship at
the Temple at Jerusalem, and the worship at the mountain where
Jacob’s well was; to bring people from all the world’s religions,
which they have made since the apostles’ days, to the religion
that was set up by Christ and his apostles, which is pure and
undefiled before God, and keeps from the spots of the world; to
bring them out of all the world’s churches and fellowships, made
and set up since the apostles’ days, to the church that is in God,
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; (Thess. i. 1,) and to bring
to the unity and fellowship in the Holy Spirit, that doth mortify,
circumcise, and baptize, to plunge down sin and corruption, that
has got up in man and woman by transgression. In this holy Spirit
there is a holy fellowship and unity; yea, it is the bond of the
Prince of princes, and King of kings, and the Lord of lords’
peace; which heavenly peace all true Christians are to maintain
with spiritual weapons, not with carnal.
“And now, my friend, the holy men of God wrote the Scriptures as
they were moved by the Holy Ghost; and all Christendom are on
heaps about those Scriptures, because they are not led by the same
Holy Ghost as those were that gave forth the Scriptures; which
Holy Ghost they must come to in themselves, and be led by, if they
come into all the truth of them, and to have the comfort of God,
of Christ, and of them. For none can call Jesus Lord, but by the
Holy Ghost; and all that call Christ Lord without the Holy Ghost,
take his name in vain. Likewise all that name his name are to
depart from iniquity; then they name his name with reverence, in
truth and righteousness.
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