A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian experiences and labour of love in the work of the ministry ... of ... George Fox. Vol. 1 [the only volume].1694 |
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... friends and being visited by friends . On the first - day in the morning several friends came to me to Edward Pyot's house ( where I lay the night before ) and used great endeavours to persuade me not to go to the meeting that day , for ...
... friends and being visited by friends . On the first - day in the morning several friends came to me to Edward Pyot's house ( where I lay the night before ) and used great endeavours to persuade me not to go to the meeting that day , for ...
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... friends that came from Bristol , told me that the soldiers that day had beset the meeting - house round at Bristol , and then went up , saying they would be sure to have me now ; but when they came up and found me not there , they were ...
... friends that came from Bristol , told me that the soldiers that day had beset the meeting - house round at Bristol , and then went up , saying they would be sure to have me now ; but when they came up and found me not there , they were ...
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... friends their own mittimus , ( for they durst trust friends ) and they have gone themselves with their mittimus to the jailer . But we told them , though our friends had sometimes done so , yet we would not take this mittimus , but some ...
... friends their own mittimus , ( for they durst trust friends ) and they have gone themselves with their mittimus to the jailer . But we told them , though our friends had sometimes done so , yet we would not take this mittimus , but some ...
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George Fox. charge to lie at an inn , and many friends and people would be coming to visit us , and it might be hard for him to bear our having meetings in his house ; and besides , we had many friends in the prison already , and we had ...
George Fox. charge to lie at an inn , and many friends and people would be coming to visit us , and it might be hard for him to bear our having meetings in his house ; and besides , we had many friends in the prison already , and we had ...
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... friends to part with him , I writ the following lines to friends for the staying and settling of their minds : Friends , " Be still and quiet in your own conditions , and settled in the seed of God that doth not change , that in that ye ...
... friends to part with him , I writ the following lines to friends for the staying and settling of their minds : Friends , " Be still and quiet in your own conditions , and settled in the seed of God that doth not change , that in that ye ...
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Popular passages
Page 393 - For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of GOD, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven : if so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.
Page 384 - For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear ; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God...
Page 438 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? "Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy reward. "Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am.
Page 310 - Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father which is in heaven.
Page 441 - I receive not honour from men. 42 But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in you. 43 I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive. 44 How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only...
Page 352 - Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
Page 380 - What man of you, having an hundred sheep, if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it...
Page 373 - For the living know that they shall die : but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward ; for the memory of them is forgotten. Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished ; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.
Page 137 - We believe they are to be read, believed, and fulfilled (he that fulfils them, is Christ) ; and they are profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works, 2 Tim.
Page 384 - But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons. And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.