George Fox

“ The Light which Christ hath Enlightened you withall, is that which makes manifest all that is contrary to it; The same Light makes manifest the Saviour from whence it comes, And makes manifest Christ to be the Covenant of Light and Life through which you may come to have Peace with God. ”

“ In which Spirit we are, by which Spirit we know God, know the Just mens Spirits, know Scriptures, In which we have Unity one with another, And the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets; and that is witnessed among us, which God said, that he would pour out his Spirit upon all Flesh; and Sons and Daughters should Prophesie; And Sons and Daughters do Prophesie now in our Age as they did amongst the Apostles; And there is Women helpers, labourers in the Gospel, such as will lay down their necks for his sake. ”

“ And the Whore, the Great Whore, which hath compelled all Nations to Drink her Cup of Fornication, which hath drunk the Blood of the Saints, should be taken even in her drunkenness, in whom the Blood of the Prophets and Martyrs is; whose Flesh must be burnt with Fire; And Babylon shall be confounded, and all the Merchants that Trade with her shall howl and cry, Alas, how is the Great City fallen! for in this Great City hath the Trading been, which must be cast down, and all the Merchants of this Great City have been the inwardly Raveners from the Spirit of God, who hath built up and thrown down ”

“ So there is a way in which is the Life, and he is the Light which doth enlighten you, Therefore come to the Light, and you come to the Way, which was before the Power of Death was, whose Name is Christ, and such as are out of the Light, are out of him in the wayes of Death and Darkness and Captivity ”

“ THe Original of Sin is the Devil, which Christ destroyes: The Original of Righteousness is God, and Christ the Righteousness of God, which last for ever; And the Worlds Original, which is the Tongues, the beginning of which is Babel, which makes Divines, as they say; which Pilate set over Christ; and the Whore sits upon the Waters, as in the Revelations, and John saith, the Waters are Nations, Multitudes, Peoples, and Tongues, which Tongues the World calls Original, to whom the Gospel must be Preached before they are established. ”

“ And with the Light you may every one know whether your Works are Good, or whether they are Evil, for that which may be known of God is made manifest in you, which God hath shewed unto you, when you do the thing that is not convenient, unrighteous or worthy of Death ”

“ That which hates God's Principle and his Voice, becomes Reprobate, who disobeys his Command and Voice such God goes against, and he hears not such who hate the Election, and are in that Reprobation from the Seed, and from the Law-Birth, for the Law keeps man from sin, but it doth not say it destroys the Devil, but the Seed Christ doth, who is greater than the Law, who is the Election; so who know the Election, they must know the Seed, they must know the Birth born of the Spirit. ”

“ So all the vain Words, all the vain Customes, and all the needlesse idle Words, which you are judged and accused for with the Light, the Witnesse in your own Consciences, which doth reprove you, forsake them, come out of them, into the New Life, in which God is served; let your Words be seasoned with Grace, that by it your Hearts may be established, that no corrupt Communication come out of your mouthes; for that which is corrupt, is contrary to the Witnesse of God in your Consciences, the Light of Christ, that which doth reprove you. ”

“ In this the Children of God, and the Children of the Devil are manifest, and each Children plead for their own. So there is a time for Men to say, they have sinned, & have Sin, and a time to confess it and forsake it, and then a time to know the Blood which cleanseth from it all, and then the Birth born which doth not commit Sin, and the Seed which remaineth in him because of which he cannot Sin, because (as I said before) it keepes the Holy One that the Evil One toucheth him not. ”

“ A corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit, neither can a good tree bring forth evil fruit; but yet if it were possible, they should deceive the very Elect; For they should have the Sheeps cloathing; but He bid, they should not go after them, for they were inwardly ravening Wolves, having the Sheeps cloathing: And these were the Antichrists, and false Prophets, false Christs, and Deceivers that ravened inwardly from the Light, and so from the Seed, the true Christ. ”

“ Now they that turn from the Grace into Wantonness, and walk despitefully against the Spirit of God, set up Teachers according to their own hearts lusts, and such are alwayes learning under them, being not able to the Knowledge of the Truth, and so go into and remain in the earthly lusts, ungodliness, and into Temptations, and weaknesses where there is Mourning and complaining, and where the Mourners are many; therefore come to the Grace of God, and that is it which will let you see your ungodliness, unrighteousness, lust of the World, and unsoberness ”

“ Amongst whom the Law of the Spirit of Life makes free from the Law of Sin and Death, who witness the Age is come which the Apostle spake of, in which the kindness and exceeding riches, which the Lord shewed among the Apostles in the primitive Times, who sate in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, in which places are many thousands come to sit ”

“ HAts, Scraping, Curtesie, and Complements, they are things below, Customs and Fashions of the World, which will pass away, and not that which comes from God; nor the esteem it is not, which all Men are to have one another in, for if they had honoured all Men, and had had all Men in esteem, then had they been of a higher Spirit then the Spirit of the World, and more Noble and Generous ”

“ Reprobation is going from the Life, and that of God within, and from his Voice and Command, as Adam did, as the Jewes did, and such as despised that of God within, their Birthright, and such are out of the true Understanding, out of true Knowledge, closed under, and the Witness grieved within, and they dead in their sences from the Life and Covenant of Peace with God ”

“ THe strong man hath long kept the house, his goods have been kept in Peace; but now a stronger then he is come Christ Jesus, the stronger, who dispossesses him, and cast him out, and spoils his goods, and makes Man the Temple of God for himself to dwell in, a Holy Temple, an habitation for himself to dwell in, which makes the keepers of the house to Tremble; through which Power of Christ, the Salvation is wrought out with Fear and Trembling ”

“ EVil Words and Evil Communications Corrupts the good Manners; and if Christendom will learn the good, they must come every one to the Light of Christ Jesus the Spirit of God in themselves, and the Word of God in their hearts and mouths, which will Teach them to forsake the Evil Words, and lead them from them, and to deny them ”

“ But who live in high Expressions and Complements, and full of Evil Words and Flatteries, and Disimulations, and call it good Manners; their works and words testifie, and manifest they are Evil and Corrupt ”

“ Now these might be Reprobates which had taken the Bread and Wine, and had the Water, these were Reprobates, if Christ was not in them; for Bread and Wine is not the Flesh and Blood of Christ which came down from above, which who Eats of it lives for ever; for People may Eat of the Bread made of Corn, and Drink of the Wine made of Grapes, and yet die Reprobates. ”

“ TEachers, Prophets, Shepherds, Elders and Bishops, they must not be such as are given to filthy lucre, nor covetous, nor given to wine; they must not be strikers, nor brawlers, nor seekers of Earthly things; they must not teach for filthy lucre, nor be covetous, nor strive about words, nor use Fables, nor Philosophy, nor the worlds Rudiments, nor Traditions, nor Doctrins of men, nor their Ordinances; they must not compel their People to observe Dayes, Meats, Drinks, and such like things ”

“ And many of them are made much more the Children of the Devil then before, like the Jewes Proselytes, Murthering and Persecuting, doing the Devils work, who is out of Truth; for Christ his Ministers and Apostles came to save Mens lives, but the Devils bait is, to Cloath his Ministers, Apostles, and Messengers with Sheepes Cloathing, And to keep People alwayes under Teaching, that they may be alwayes paying of them, destroying and Persecuting such as will not pay them ”

“ THou to a single Person, & You to many, is our practice, and was the Saints, according to Scripture, and the Principle of God placed in every Man, which doth distinguish many from one, and hath a word to the Plural, and to the Singular ”

“ And so they lost the Pearl hid in the field, the Word in their hearts, and so the false Prophets, going from the Apostles; in the Revelations, the world is going after them; so John wrote to the seven Churches which were going astray suffering Jezebel to teach: and setting up Idols, and such as said they were Jews and were not, but the Synagogues of Satan. He goes on in his Revelations, till he comes to the 11. Chapter, where the Witnesses are slain, the two Olive Trees that bear the Oyle to anoint the Nations; the two Candlesticks that bears the Light: And in the 12. ”

“ And so by the Word every one would be taught to know the Ingrafted Word which is able to save their Souls, which Hammers and cuts down, & burns up that which wars against, and keeps the Soul from enjoying good ”

“ He that hath the Form of Godliness, and denyes the Power, from such turn away; an Envious Man, a Man of strife, a Contentious Man, the Apostle bids turn away from such; though there was a Time when the Name of Christ was spreading abroad, he suffered Envious Men to spread his Name abroad, but when it was spread abroad, he stopped such Envious Contentious ”