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
“Now is the day that every one’s faith and love to God and Christ will
be tried; they who are redeemed out of the earth, and they who are in
the earth, will be manifested; and who is the master they serve, and
whether they will run to the mountains to cover them. Now will it
appear who are the stony ground, who are the thorny ground, and who
are the highway ground, in whom the fowls of the air take away the
seed, and the thorns and cares of the world choke, and the heat of
persecution scorches and burns up your green blade; for the day trieth
all things. Therefore let not such as forsake truth, for saving the
earth, say that your brother priest only ‘serveth not the Lord Jesus
Christ, but his own belly, and mindeth earthly things,’ for such
themselves also do the same, and hug and embrace self, and not the
Lord. Now it will be made manifest, who is every one’s God, Christ,
and Saviour, and their love will be manifest, whether it be of the
world, or of God; for if it be the love of the world, it is enmity,
and the enmity will manifest itself what it is; and the day will try
every spirit and his fruits. Therefore, my dear friends, in the
everlasting Seed of God live, that is over all the house of Adam and
his works in the fall; and so dwelling in the Seed, Christ, that never
fell, in him you all have virtue, life, and peace, and through him ye
will overcome all that is in the fall.”
G.F.
I wrote also another epistle to Friends, to warn them to keep out of the
spirit, that wrought in John Perrot and his company against the truth:—
“DEAR FRIENDS,
“Dwell in the love of God, and in his righteousness; that will
preserve you above all changeable spirits, that dwell not in the
truth, but in quarrels. Avoid such, and keep your habitations in the
truth. Dwell in the truth, and in the Word of God, by which ye are
reconciled to him. Keep your meetings in the name of Jesus Christ, who
never fell; then ye will see over all the gatherings of Adam’s sons
and daughters, you being met in the life over them all, in which are
your unity, peace, and fellowship with God, and one with another, in
the life, in which ye may enjoy God’s presence among you. So remember
me to all Friends in the everlasting Seed of God. The fellowship of
all those that are got into fellowship in outward things, will corrupt
and wither away. Therefore live in the gospel, the power of God, which
was before the devil was. This fellowship in the gospel, the power of
God, is a mystery to all the fellowships of the world. So look over
all outward sufferings, and look at the Lord, and the Lamb, who is the
First and the Last, the Amen; in whom farewell.”
G.F.
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