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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54107	A brief account of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers in which their fundamental principle, doctrines, worship, ministry and discipline are plainly declared to prevent the mistakes and perversions that ignorance and prejudice may make to abuse the credulous : with a summary relation of the former dispensations of God in the world by way of introduction / by W. Penn.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1694 (1694)	Wing P1257; ESTC R30091	50,798	131

Original in Him His Troubles and Sufferings both from without and within His End and Triumph I Am now come to the Third Head or Branch of my Preface viz. The Instrumental Author For it is Natural for some to say Well here is the People and Work but where and who was the Man the Instrument He that in this Age was sent to begin this Work and People I shall as God shall enable me declare who and what he was not only by report of others but from my own long and most inward Converse and intimate knowledge of him for which my Soul blesseth God as it hath often done And I doubt not but by that time I have discharged my self of this part of my Preface my serious Readers will believe I had good Cause so to do The Blessed Instrument of and in this day of God and of whom I am now about to Write was George Fox distinguished from another of that Name by that Other 's addition of Younger to his Name in all his Writings not that he was so in Years but that he was so in the Truth But he was also a Worthy Man Witness and Servant of God in his time But this George Fox was Born in Leicester-shire about the Year 1624. He descended of Honest and Sufficient Parents who endeavoured to bring him up as they did the rest of their Children in the Way and Worship of the Nation Especially his Mother who was a Woman accomplisht above most of her Degree in the place where she lived But from a Child he appeared of another Frame of Mind than the rest of his Brethren being more Religious Inward Still Solid and Observing beyond his Years as the Answers he would give and the Questions he would put upon occasion manifested to the Astonishment of those that heard him especially in Divine Things His Mother taking Notice of his Singular Temper and the Gravity Wisdom and Piety that very early shined through him refusing Childish and Vain Sports and Company when very Young She was Tender and Indulgent over him so that from her he met with little Difficulty As to his Employment he was brought up in Country Business and as he took most delight in Sheep so he was very skilful in them An Employment that very well suited his mind in several Respects both for its Innocency and Solitude and was a just Emblem of his after Ministry and Service I shall not break in upon his own Account which is by much the best that can be given and therefore desire what I can to avoid saying any thing of what is said already as to the particular Passages of his coming forth But in general when he was somewhat above Twenty he left his Friends and visited the most Retired and Religious People in those Parts And some there were short of few if any in this Nation who waited for the Consolation of Israel Night and Day as Zacherias Anna and good Old Simeon did of Old Time To these he was sent and these he sought out in the Neighbouring Countys and among them he Sojourned till his more ample Ministry came upon him At this time he taught and was an Example of Silence endeavouring to bring them from Self-performances Testifying of and turning them to the Light of Christ within them and encouraging them to wait in Patience to feel the Power of it to stir in their Hearts that their Knowledge and Worship of God might stand in the Power of an Endless Life which was to be found in the Light as it was obeyed in the Manifestation of it in man For in the Word was Life and that Life is the Light of Men. Life in the Word Light in Men and Life in Men too as the Light is obeyed The Children of the Light living by the Life of the Word by which the Word begets them again to God which is the Regeneration and New-Birth without which there is no coming into the Kingdom of God And to which whoever comes is greater than John that is than John's Dispensation which was not that of the Kingdom but the Consummation of the Legal and Forerunning of the Gospel Times the time of the Kingdom Accordingly several Meetings were gathered in those Parts and thus his Time was employed for some Years In 1652. He being in his usual Retirement his Minde exercised towards the Lord upon a very High Mountain in some of the hither parts of Yorkshire as I take it he had a Vision of the great Work of God in the Earth and of the way that he was to go forth in a publick Ministry to begin it He saw People as thick as Motes in the Sun that should in time be brought Home to the Lord that there might be but one Shepherd and one Sheepfold in all the Earth There his Eye was directed Northward beholding a great People that should receive him and his Message in those Parts Upon this Mountain he was moved of the Lord to sound out his Great and notable Day as if he had been in a great Auditory and from thence went North as the Lord had shown him And in every place where he came if not before he came to it he had his particular Exercise and Service shown to him so that the Lord was his Leader indeed For it was not in vain that he Travailed God in most places sealing his Commission with the Convincement of some of all sorts as well Publicans as sober Professors of Religion Some of the first and most Eminent of those that came forth in a publick Ministry and which are now at Rest were Richard Farnsworth James Nayler William Dewsberry Tho. Aldam Francis Howgil Edward Burroughs John Camm John Audland Richard Hubberthorn T. Taylor T. Holmes Alexander Parker William Simpson William Catton John Stubbs Robert Withers Tho. Low Josiah Coale John Burnyeat Robert Lodge Thomas Salt-house and many more Worthies that cannot be well here Named together with divers yet living of the first Great Convincement who after the knowledge of God's purging Judgments in themselves and some time of waiting in silence upon him to feel and receive Power from on High to speak in his Name which none else rightly can though they may use the same Words They felt Its Divine Motions and were frequently drawn forth especially to visit the Publick Assemblies to reprove inform and exhort them Sometimes in Markets Fairs Streets and by the High-way-side calling People to Repentance and to turn to the Lord with their Hearts as well as their Mouths directing them to the Light of Christ within them to see examine and consider their ways by and to eschew the evil and do the Good and Acceptable Will of God And they suffered great Hardships for this their Love and Good-will being often Stockt Stoned Beaten Whipt and Imprisoned though Honest Men and of Good Report where they lived that had left Wives and Children and Houses and Lands to visit them with a living Call to Repentance