Gleanings from the Works of George Fox

John Stuart Mill · en
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                        RELIGION OF LIFE SERIES.

                       GLEANINGS FROM GEORGE FOX.


                           UNIFORM VOLUMES IN
                        Religion of Life Series.

                       CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.
                       ISAAC PENINGTON.
                       GEORGE FOX.
                       SIR THOMAS BROWNE.
                       THE CHILDREN OF THE LIGHT.
                       WILLIAM PENN.

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                               GLEANINGS
                           FROM THE WORKS OF
                               GEORGE FOX


                                   BY
                         DOROTHY M. RICHARDSON
                               AUTHOR OF
                     "THE QUAKERS: PAST & PRESENT."


                                LONDON:
                           HEADLEY BROTHERS,
                           BISHOPSGATE, E.C.




                               Contents.


                                                 PAGE
                   INTRODUCTION                  7-14

                                PART I.
                   NARRATIVE PASSAGES           17-28

                                PART II.
                   SPECIAL TESTIMONIES          31-90
                     1. BUSINESS LIFE              31
                     2. THE INWARD LIGHT           35
                     3. JUSTICE                    41
                     4. MEETINGS AND MINISTRY      46
                     5. OATHS                      64
                     6. RESPECTING PERSONS         66
                     7. THE SCRIPTURES             69
                     8. SIN                        74
                     9. SLAVERY                    81
                     10. WAR                       82
                     11. WOMEN                     84

                               PART III.
                   SOCIAL LIFE                 93-109
                     1. SOCIAL LIFE                93
                     2. GENERAL EXHORTATIONS      103




                             Introduction.


                                   I.

George Fox may be variously described. If we look at him from the
standpoint of orthodox Catholicism we shall see a heretical genius, a
man who tried to re-organise the church and succeeded in establishing a
sect--in defiance of the fact of the rarity of the religious and the
still greater rarity of the mystical temperament--upon a basis of
mystical opportunism, in a condition of divorce from sacraments, culture
and tradition.