A collection of many select and Christian epistles, letters and testimonies written on sundry occasions, by that ancient, eminent, faithful friend and minister of Christ Jesus, George Fox ; the second volume.
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A collection of many select and Christian epistles, letters and testimonies written on sundry occasions, by that ancient, eminent, faithful friend and minister of Christ Jesus, George Fox ; the second volume.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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London :: Printed by T. Sowle ...,
1698.
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"A collection of many select and Christian epistles, letters and testimonies written on sundry occasions, by that ancient, eminent, faithful friend and minister of Christ Jesus, George Fox ; the second volume." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A40137.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.
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To Friends in Holland.
DEar Friends,
To whom is my Love in the Seed of Life, that bruises the Head of the Seed of Death; and through him you have all Life Eternal; who is the Foundation of the Prophets, and the Apostles, and all God's People, in all Ages, their Rock to build upon, that will stand the Waves of the Sea, and all Storms and foul Weather, who is the Horn of your Salvation, to push down all, that stands in your way to God; and to push down him, that has led Man and Wo∣man from God: So, that you may all sing of your Rock, and the Horn of your Salvation, as the Holy Ones did in Ages past; and Christ, who is your Foundation, the Lamb of God, who hath been slain from the Foundation of the World, but now he has overcome the World, and is risen, and ascended far above all Principalities, Powers, Thrones and Dominions; and is razing down to the Ground the World's Foundation, from which Foundation he has been slain, and is setting up himself, the Living and Everlasting Foundation, for all his to build upon; and therefore, because the World and its Foun∣dation, Christ is razing down, they are are offended and angry, and
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the Heathen Rage and take Counsel against the anointed; but it's to no purpose, for he will shake the Foundation of all false Religions, Ways, Worships, Churches and Teachers, and will make the Pillars of them to totter, and they must be at their wits end, before they see another Foun∣dation; for God shook down the Four Monarchies, the great Empires of the World, and scattered them abroad with his Wind, as the Chaff of the Summer Floor, all those great Persecutors, and the little Stone that's cut out of the Mountain without Hands, that no earthly Man has the glory of, is becoming a great Mountain, and will fill the whole Earth (Glory to God for ever) and it will dash down all Mens Glory and Pride, let them soar as high as Nebuchadnezzar, and shelter as many un∣der them as he did, in their Sects, that he may make them to know, that the most High rules in the Kingdom of Men, and that his Kingdom is an Everlasting Kingdom. And therefore, all Friends, that know the Light, which is the Life in Christ, be faithful in the Truth, and spread it abroad, answering the Light of Christ in every one; for Christ bid his Disciples go preach the Gospel unto all Nations: And since that was done, are many gathered into the Fellowship and Order of it; but since the World has worshipped the Beast, and given their Glory and Honour to him, instead of God and Christ; which Beast is out of Truth, and had his Power from the Dragon, and the Whore, which all Nations has drunk of her Cup, and she has rid upon the Beast; and now the Everlasting Gospel must be preached again to all Nati∣ons, Tongues and People that dwell upon the Earth: So all Nations hath been darkned from Life and Immortality; and now the Gospel, which is the Power of God, brings Life and Immortality to light again, that they may come to see over him that has darkned them, and be∣fore he was; and such comes into the City of the heavenly Jerusa∣lem, and drinks of the Waters of Life freely.
And therefore all live and walk in the Light, in which you have Fellowship and Ʋnity, and be at Peace among your selves, and in Love, which edifies, and bears all things; for this is that which passes Know∣ledge, and keeps in the Humility of Christ Jesus. So, my desires are, That you may all spread and grow in the Vine, for the Lord hath a great People to come out in those Parts, which I saw in 1651. And therefore Labour in God's Power, that you may increase your heavenly Treasure, and enter into the Joy of the Lord. And so, with my Love to all in the Truth, that walk and live in it, that by it they may be made God's Free-men.