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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 of God to experience peace, oneness, and wisdom from the Most-High. He emphasizes the importance of staying connected to the Power of God to tame unruly spirits and bring souls into alignment with God. By living in the Power, one can feel the End of Words and the Life that transcends earthly desires, leading to love, unity, and the Kingdom of the Most-High.
Safety in the Power
ALL Friends every where, in the Power of God dwell, and know that over all to keep you. And lose not the Power of God, which keeps down, tames and breaks all wild, unruly, rash and hasty Spirits, which will run without the Power; which Spirits reach not to the Seed and Witness of God in Men, and strike not through the Earthly, neither receive Wisdom to be ordered to the Glory of the Lord God. And there is Safety in the Power; and there is the Wisdom of the MOst-High felt, and the Power of the Endless Life. And this is the Word of the Lord God to you all every where. Dwell in the Power of the Lord God, and live in it; for that brings all your Souls into Peace, into Oneness, into God, from whence theycome, who hath them all in his Hand. And in the Power ye will all come to feel the End of Words, the Life, from which all Words of Truth were given forth; and all hasty, rash, loose, lustful Spirits the Power will strike down, for they beget nothing to God, but go out of his Dread. Therefore this is the Word of the Lord God, and a Charge unto all Friends upon the Earth, to dwell all in his Power; . . . it will bring you all to live in Love and Unity one with another, and to know the Kingdom of the Most-High, that stands in Power, ruling in you all.
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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.