Gleanings from the Works of George Fox

John Stuart Mill · en
Scattered Minds.

Oh friends, look not out; for he that doth is darkened. And take heed of
lightness. Take heed of the world and of busying your mind with things
not serviceable. A wise man's eye is in his head, but a fool's eye is
gazing up and down.

                                               (_Works_, VII., p. 72.)

People must not be always talking and hearing.

                                              (_Works_, VIII., p. 45.)

Evil Humours.

For all distractions, distempers, unruliness, and confusion is in the
transgression which transgression must be brought down before the
principle of God.

                        (_Swarthmore Transcripts_, Vol. VII., p. 123.)

Judgments.

Take heed of judging the measures of others, but everyone mind your own,
and there ye famish the busy minds and high conceits, and so peace
springs up among you and division is judged.

                                               (_Works_, VII., p. 60.)

Differences.

All differences to be made up speedily that they do not fly abroad to
corrupt people's minds.

                                              (_Works_, VII., p. 328.)

Scandal.

Let all reports be stopped that tend to the defaming one of another.

                                              (_Works_, VII., p. 328.)

Singleness.

Keep single unto God and single-hearted to man and plain in all things,
and low.

                                              (_Works_, VII., p. 304.)

Love.

Live in peace and love and patience with one another, for that doth
edify the body and strife doth not, but doth eat out the good. For the
body doth edify itself in love, in which there is nourishment and virtue
and life.

                                              (_Works_, VIII., p. 22.)

Unity.

Mind the light, that all may be refreshed one in another and all in one.
And the God of power and love keep all friends in power, in love, that
there be no surmisings, but pure refreshings in the unlimited love of
God, which makes one another known in the conscience to read one
another's hearts; being comprehended into this love, it is inseparable
and all are here one. And keep in the oneness and note them that cause
dissension contrary to the gospel ye have received, that one pure faith
may be held in all, to guide and preserve all in the unity of the spirit
and bond of peace; all one family of love, children of one father and of
the household of God.

                                               (_Works_, VII., p. 19.)

                                  II.
                         General Exhortations.

The dead make dead ways for the dead to walk in.

                                              (_Works_, VIII., p. 28.)

Hardness of heart is worse than an outward plague.

                                              (_Works_, VII., p. 274.)

The hard-hearted are not sensible.

                                             (_Works_, VIII., p. 116.)