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George Fox (1624 - 1691). English Dissenter, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), born in Drayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire. Apprenticed as a shoemaker, he left home at 19, seeking spiritual truth amid Puritan and Anglican tensions. In 1647, after visions and direct experiences of God, he began preaching an “inner light” accessible to all, rejecting clergy and formal worship. By 1652, he gathered followers in northern England, forming the Quakers, known for pacifism and simplicity. Fox traveled across England, Ireland, the Netherlands, and America, enduring eight imprisonments for his beliefs, including at Lancaster Castle. He wrote Journal (1694) and numerous letters, shaping Quaker theology with calls for equality and justice. Married to Margaret Fell in 1669, a key Quaker leader, they had no children, but she had eight from her prior marriage. His 1660 Declaration rejected violence, influencing conscientious objection. Fox’s emphasis on personal revelation transformed Protestantism, and his writings remain central to Quaker thought.
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George Fox emphasizes the importance of living in accordance with the glorious truth of God, urging believers to walk worthy of their calling and to dwell in the dominion of God's life. He encourages the congregation to feel the Seed of God within them, which represents Christ, and to live in love, meekness, and patience while being guided by divine wisdom. Fox warns against straying from the living principle of God and highlights the necessity for the Lamb, representing Christ, to achieve victory in each believer. He calls for a collective adherence to God's laws in all consciences, promoting unity and righteousness among nations.
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The Pretious Springs of God
. . . As the glorious Truth is springing and manifest among you, live and walk all worthy of what ye are called unto. . . . Live in the Dominion of the Life that is hid in God, and every particular it know in one another. And live in the Power of God, and of Life, that ye may see over the Day of Tempest, over the Day of Darkness and Blackness and Mists: And feel, and know, and come into that, which comprehends the World; that ye all may be guided with Wisdom, and ordered to God's Glory. . . . And feel the Seed of God in you all. . . . . . . And keep that uncer, that feeds upon Dust, which the Glory and Life is over; which Seed breaks the Strength of all Men, and inherits the Strength of the Almighty. . . . So feel the Seed, which is Christ in you all . . . and come into the living Way. For whose Way dyes, they err from the living Principle of God in them; for who walk in the Way that lives, they answer the Principle of God in every Man; though they act contrary to it, that are in the Way, that dyes, and do not live, but change and alter: So the Lamb must get the Victory in every one of you, which is Christ in the Male and the Female. . . . And my Dear Lambs, and Babes, and Plants of the Lord God, dwell every one of you in Your own, that ye may feel the pretious Springs of God. . . . So, live in Love, Meekness, Patience, and in the Power and Wisdom of God, which is over all the World. . . . This is the Message of the Lord to all Nations, Let all your Laws be according to that of God in all Consciences.
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George Fox (1624 - 1691). English Dissenter, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), born in Drayton-in-the-Clay, Leicestershire. Apprenticed as a shoemaker, he left home at 19, seeking spiritual truth amid Puritan and Anglican tensions. In 1647, after visions and direct experiences of God, he began preaching an “inner light” accessible to all, rejecting clergy and formal worship. By 1652, he gathered followers in northern England, forming the Quakers, known for pacifism and simplicity. Fox traveled across England, Ireland, the Netherlands, and America, enduring eight imprisonments for his beliefs, including at Lancaster Castle. He wrote Journal (1694) and numerous letters, shaping Quaker theology with calls for equality and justice. Married to Margaret Fell in 1669, a key Quaker leader, they had no children, but she had eight from her prior marriage. His 1660 Declaration rejected violence, influencing conscientious objection. Fox’s emphasis on personal revelation transformed Protestantism, and his writings remain central to Quaker thought.