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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 preaches about dwelling in the Power and Life of God in unity with one another, allowing the Life of God to manifest in their interactions. He emphasizes the importance of staying humble and obedient to the Power of God, avoiding strife by focusing on the unchanging Power of God that brings wisdom and order. Fox encourages recognizing the Seed of Christ in each other, which unites believers as heirs of God's promises, urging them to live in the Power that breaks down barriers and reconciles humanity with God. He concludes with a charge to live in peace, allowing the Peace, Life, and Wisdom of God to govern their lives.
In the Power Live
FRIENDS, in the Power and Life of God dwell, in Unity one with another, that with the Life of God ye may Answer that of God in every one. And Keep down and Low, that nothing may reign, but Life among you; and unto the Power of God be odedient. And Friends, the going down from the Life and Power into the Changable things, there is the Strife, which the Life is over; by which Power of God all things were made, wherein Wisdom is received to order all things to his Glory. So, the Seed, Christ in you all know, which doth go over all the Earth, and inherits the Promise of God; that ye may be all Heirs of the Promise of God. And Cease from your own Words, but in the Power live; for it breaks down Rocks, Mountains, old and Sandy Foundation, and the Bond of Iniquity, and makes up the Breach between God and man, and breaks down that, which made the Breach. So the Seed know one in another, which Seed is Christ; who according to the the Flesh was of Abraham, and according to the Spirit, the Son of God. And this is the Word of the Lord God to all Friends, and a Charge to you from the Lord God, To live in Peace one with another, and that the Peace, Life and Wisdom of God may rule you all. G.F.
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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.