Gleanings from the Works of George Fox — John Stuart Mill — John Shaqi
Gleanings from the Works of George Fox
John Stuart Mill · en
The throne of iniquity must be brought down, and the chamber of imagery
in every heart, for the Lord must have the heart.
(_Works_, VII., p. 275.)
Leave off all your bustling and come to Christ.
(_Works_, V., p. 171.)
Reason not with flesh and blood that shall never enter, take not counsel
with that which lies in thy bosom for that draweth thee nearer to carnal
things, and draws thee to consult with reason and so draws thy eye and
mind to visible things, and so wanders from going on thy journey.
(_Swarthmore Transcripts_, IV., p. 566.)
Man's pride is not the higher power. In humility we find a power above
pride, higher than oppression, higher than men's wills, higher than the
lusts of the eye, yea, higher than all that in man would exalt against
it. So we deny the lower that we may subject our souls to that which
excelleth and which is ordained of God.
And to every ordinance of man we are subject for the Lord's sake. But
should we bow to the spirit of pride we should betray the Lord and give
his honour to another and that is not for the Lord's sake. So what we
see for the Lord and of him in every ordinance of man we subject to for
the Lord's sake, and what is against him for his sake we deny and with
him suffer under it as witnesses for him against it.... Is there
anything honourable in man but the image of God?
(C. J., I., pp. 131, 132.)
And so the Lord arm friends with his light and shield of faith that they
may stand in the daylight of the son of God and keep their first
habitation and hold Christ their head by which the body is united
together by bands and joints, from whom they receive their nourishment
and the love of God which edifies the body and unites it to Christ their
heavenly head, which all the apostate Christians being several bodies
without this head and not owning his light, grace and truth that comes
from him the head by which they should be joined and united. And
therefore are they like so many monstrous bodies without the heavenly
head, but what they have of their own making; so often their heads go
off their bodies.
(_Bristol MSS._, V., p. 20.)
Keep in the power of the Lord which will bring you over all to the fine
linen, the righteousness of the saints.
(_Works_, VII., p. 239.)
Pray to the Lord to give you dominion over all, and that in his power
and life and seed ye may live and reign. And all friends submit
yourselves to one another in the fear of God and be one with the witness
of God in all and look at that and that will keep you down from looking
at the bad, but looking at the good keepeth your minds over the bad,
with the Lord.
(_Works_, VII., p. 75.)