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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 encourages believers to receive their spiritual nourishment directly from God, emphasizing the importance of relying on the Father of Life for strength and guidance on their spiritual journey. He assures that by waiting in the pure Spirit, they will witness God's promises fulfilled and experience daily refreshment from the Lord. Fox highlights the eternal nature of God's presence, manifesting in His children, and reassures them of His protective and guiding power as they travel towards the heavenly Jerusalem, where they will find everlasting joy and peace.
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To the Travellers in the Lord's Way
FRIENDS, All are to receive your Spiritual Bread and Water from the Father of Life, by which ye may be strengthened and watered from the Father of Life in your passing and travelling on in your Spiritual Journey heartily and comfortably; that ye may come to your heavenly Rest, being come and coming . . . toward the City of heavenly Jerusalem, where ye shall abide Eternally for ever. . . . Everyone wait in the pure Spirit to guide you to God, then ye shall see the Promise of God fulfilled in you, and the Springs of Life opened to you, and Refreshment daily coming in from the Lord. . . . The Eternal, Glorious God of Heaven and Earth, the same, as ever he was, is manifesting himself in his Sons and Daughters. . . . For the Lord is King in his Saints, he guards them, and guides them with his mighty Power, . . . into his Kingdom of Glory and Eternal Rest, where they find Joy, and Peace, and Rest Eternal.
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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.