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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 living in the immortal seed and power of the Lord God to experience unity, peace, and spiritual victory over enemies. He emphasizes dwelling in the life and power of God to realize our inheritance as heirs of an endless life and a world without end. Fox encourages keeping meetings in this divine presence and dwelling in the peaceable seed that destroys troubles, wars, and fightings, offering everlasting life and peace.
Love Enemies
MY Dear Friends, Live in the Immortal Seed and Power of the Lord God, that ye may Meet in that, and in that feel one another. And live in the Spirit, in which, ye will have Unity and Peace, and the Spiritual Weapons, to cut down the Spiritual Enemies to your Peace. And dwell in the Life and Power of God, that ye may have Dominion, and come to witness, that ye are the Heirs of the Power of an Endless Life, and of a World, whereof there is no End, and so, in this keep your Meetings. And dwell in the Peaceable Seed, which destroyeth that which causeth Troubles, Wars, and Fightings; in that dwell, which was before that was, in that will ye have Life and Peace Everlasting. . . . And the Everlasting Command of the Royal Seed is to love Enemies, (which the Jews were allowed to destroy) for ye are all Brethren. . . .
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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.