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The people of God in scorn called Quakers their love to all mankind for as God's love through Christ hath been shed abroad in our hearts, we cannot but in the same love desire the eternal good and the salvation of all mankind ... / by George Fox.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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Love Enemies as well as Friends and the Lord desires not the Death of a Sinner but rather that he might turn and live and Christ is the Saviour of All Men especially of them that believe you are of another Mind and Spirit then the Prophets and Christ and the Apostles were of that say Christ did not dye for all Men and tasted Death for every man and gave himself a Ransom for all men And God would have all men to be saved and come to the Knowledge of the Truth and the Manifestation of the Spirit of God is given to every man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12.7 mark every man and you that are against this are the Sect-makers and have not the Mind of the Apostle and this Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles we preach and teach and bear witness unto against all the Opposers and Sect-makers whatsoever And the Apostle saith But he that understandeth according to Sobriety as God hath dealt to every man the Measure of Faith mark as God hath dealt to every man the Measure of Faith so he is the Dealer for it is his Gift for Faith is the Gift of God which Christ is the Author of and not man by which every man should walk by that Faith which God hath dealt to him by Christ Jesus the Author and Finisher Rom. 12.3 For of him to wit God and through him and for him are all things to him be Glory forever Amen Rom. 11. So your Directory and Church Faith as you call it may lie and mold for we understand according to Sobriety that as God hath dealt to every man the Measure of Faith his Gift so he is to walk by in which he pleases God through Christ Jesus whom all Christians must look unto Jesus who is the Author of their Faith and Finisher of it who is the Author of ours Glory to God forever And the Wise Man's Eye is in his Head Christ Jesus who is the Head of all who bruises the Serpent's Head that led Men from God and hath been between Men and God and he that doth this leads Man again to God to wit Christ who is the true Baptizer who baptizes with Fire and with the Holy Ghost whose Fan is in his Hand and he will cleanse his Floor the Floor of your Hearts and will gather his Wheat into his Garner but will burn up the Chaff with unquenchable Fire and they that know this Baptizer to wit Christ are the true Christians and will never plead for the Chaff their Body of Death and Sin to the Grave for when Christ sets Fire in your Hearts and Minds that never shall be quenched till the Chaff is burnt up such will not plead for the Chaff but for Christ and his Baptism which we own and would have all People come to For in the Time of the Law things were to pass through the Fire and Water to be made clean so must you pass through Christ's Fire and Water which purifies and washes before you will be clean to enter into his holy Kingdom and know his Baptism as in Luke 3.16 17. For Simon Magus may go into the Outward Water and yet not come to Christ's Baptism and think he can buy the Gift of God for Money which was judged by the Apostle and by all that be in the same spirit And this is the One Baptism For by One Spirit we the true Church are all baptized into one Body whether we be Jews or Grecians Bond or Free and have been all made to drink into one Spirit And for want of this Spirit 's baptizing of you and you drinking into it there are so many Bodies and Sects in Christendom and so many Baptisms and Wayes and so do not drink all into one Spirit in which the Unity and Fellowship and the Bond of the Prince of Princes Peace is which we say all true Christians are bound to keep and then they will seek the Good of all men and the Peace of all men let them be of several Sects formerly yet by One Spirit they are all baptized into one Body as they come to the Spirit then they drink into one Spirit then here is Fellowship in the One Spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 So all Christians are to endeavour to keep the Unity of this Spirit in the Bond of Peace Here is one Body and one Spirit even as ye are called into one Hope of your Vocation there is one Lord one Faith one Baptism and one God and one Father of all which is above all and through all mark and in you all Phil. 4. know him there searching your Hearts and find him there trying your Reins incline your Ears and give ear to him there who will render to every one of you according to your Words and Works whether they be Good or Evil. And therefore quench not nor vex nor grieve his good Spirit nor rebel against the Good Spirit which God hath given to you to instruct you and to profit withal Neh. 9. nor turn the Grace of God into Wantonness which would teach you and bring your Salvation neither walk despightfully against the Spirit of Grace neither despise Prophecy which is an Office in the Church neither hate the Light of Christ lest it be your Condemnation which you should believe in and become Children of And in the 1 Corinth 8.6 Unto us to wit the Christians there is but one God which is the Father of whom are all things mark all things and we in him mark in him to wit the Father of whom are all things and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things mark by whom are all things and we by him to wit by Christ of whom is named the whole Family in Heaven and Earth and so that Christ may dwell in your Hearts by Faith and that you may be strengthned by his Spirit in your Inward Man Ephes 3. And do not resist the Holy Ghost as the Out-side Professing Jews did the Stiff-necked Uncircumcised in Hearts and Ears as it is to be feared too many of those called Christians do now Acts 7.51 for they that do resist the Holy Ghost resist that in which they should have Fellowship and pray in and they that resist the Holy Ghost resist that which Christ sends to lead the Saints into all Truth by and shews them things to come and takes of mine says Christ and gives unto you and they that resist this resist their Leader and their Minister and their Reprover and this Comforter the Spirit of Truth shall reprove the World of Sin John 14.15 16. and of their Righteousness which is not Christ's and of their Judgment which is not of the Holy Ghost and therefore must the World leave their Sin Righteousness and Judgment and turn at the Reproof of the Holy Ghost which Christ prayed unto the Father that he would send and should abide with his Disciples forever and he did and hath sent him the Holy Ghost the Comforter that