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A40209	A journal or historical account of the life, travels, sufferings, Christian experiences and labour of love in the work of the ministry, of ... George Fox, who departed this life in great peace with the Lord, the 13th of the 11th month, 1690, the first volume.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.; Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702.	1694 (1694)	Wing F1854; ESTC R3344	917,676	824

accept any man's Person neither let me give flattering Titles unto Man for I know not to give flattering Titles in so doing my Maker would soon take me away Job 32. Job did not say Sirrah hold thy Tongue nor gave him any unsavoury Expression Then for the Words of David and Solomon and other Kings and Officers see in the Books of the Kings and Chronicles the Savoury Language that they gave to them that were brought before them Nay though Shimei cursed David the King yet neither did David then or afterward nor Solomon when he caused him to be put to Death give him any reproachful Language or so much as call him Sirrah 2 Sam. 16. and 1 Kings 2. Read the Prophecies of Isaiah and Micha Jeremiah Ezekiel and the rest of the Prophets who Prophesied to several Peoples and against Rulers Kings and Magistrates yet where can it be found that they had any bad Language given them as Sirrah or the like by any Ruler either of the Jews or Heathens Nay though Jeremiah was cast into the Prison and into the Dungeon yet there was no such Word as Sirrah or Knave given to him Jer. 37. Then for the Words and Carriage of the Heathens When Abraham was brought before Abimelech who was a King he gave Abraham no unsavoury Expressions Gen. 20. And when Isaac came before Abimelech he gave him no taunting Language neither Gen. 26. When Joseph was cast into Prison and that in Egypt we do not read that he had any railing Language given him Gen. 39. Neither did Pharaoh when Moses and Aaron went before him give them bad Language as Sirrah Knave or the like When Nebuchadnezzar Sentenced the Three Children to the Fiery Furnace there was no such Language given them as Sirrah Knave Rascal but called them by the Names they were known by Dan. 3. And when Daniel was brought before King Darius and sentenced to be cast into the Lions Den he had no such Ill Names given him as many give now who call those Heathen Rulers but themselves Christians If ye look into the New Testament there in the Parable of the Wedding-Supper the King that came to view his Guests did not say unto him that was found without a Wedding-Garment Sirrah how camest thou in hither but Friend how camest thou in hither c. though he was one that was to be bound hand and foot and cast into utter Darkness Matth. 22. Nay when Judas had betrayed his Master Christ Jesus the Lord of Life and had sold him to the Priests Christ did not call him Sirrah when he came to apprehend him but Friend Matth. 26.50 Stephen in his Examination Sentence and Death had no such reproachful Word given him as Sirrah or Knave Acts 6. 7. Chapt. When the Apostles Peter and John were brought before the High-Priest and Rulers of the Jews and commanded not to preach in the Name of Jesus Acts 4. they were not called Sirrah or Knaves nor had any such Ill Names given them And when Paul and Silas were cast into Prison by the Magistrates there was no such Word given them in their Examination nor in their Sentence Acts 16. They called them Men not Rogues Sirrahs nor Knaves And when the Magistrates had done contrary to Law they feared So ye may see how short of this Example many are that call themselves Christian Rulers who are not afraid to cast Innocent People into Prison and give them Ill Names besides below both Jews and Heathens When the Vproar was at Ephesus about Diana's Shrine Demetrius who bore great Sway among the Crafts-men did not call Paul Sirrah but called him by his Right Name Paul Acts 19. And when Paul was brought Prisoner before the High-Priest Ananias and the Council of the Jews and told them He had lived in all good Conscience towards God until that day though they who professed the Scriptures but lived out of the Life of them could not abide to hear of Living in a good Conscience as Professors of the Scriptures now that live not in the Life cannot abide to hear of living in a good Conscience now-a-days But Ananias caused Paul to be smitten on the Mouth yet he did not call him Knave nor Sirrah Acts 23. The Apostate-Jews indeed who though they professed Scripture were out of the Life thereof and had rejected Christ in their accusing Paul before the Roman Magistrates did once call him a Pestilent Fellow Acts 24. as the Accusing Professors who live out of the Life will sometimes call us now But Felix gave Paul no such Language neither did Festus nor King Agrippa in all their Examinations of him give Paul any such Words as Sirrah Rascal Knave or the like but heard him patiently So now Christians may see through all the Scriptures that when any Persons were brought before Rulers Kings or Magistrates whether Jews or Heathen they did not use to call them Evil Names as Sirrah Rascal Knave and the like they had no such foul-mouth'd Language in their Courts Nor did they use to say to them Sirrah put off your Hat Now ye that profess Christianity and say the Scripture is your Rule may see that more Corrupt Words proceed out of your Mouths than either out of the Jews or Heathens if ye will Try your Practice by the Scriptures And doth not the Apostle tell you that no Corrupt Communication should proceed out of your Mouths and that your Words should be gracious Now I query Where and whence ye that call your selves Christians have got all these bad Words and Names seeing neither God nor Christ nor the Prophets nor the Judges nor Kings nor Rulers ever gave any such Names so far as appears by Scripture either amongst the Heathens Jews or Christians G. F. Before the next Assizes came there was a Quarter-Sessions holden at Lancaster by the Justices To which though we were not brought yet I put Friends upon drawing up an Account of their Sufferings and laying them before the Justices in their open Sessions For Friends had suffered deeply by Fines and Distresses the Bayliffs and Officers making great Havock and Spoil of their Goods But no Redress was made And because some Evil-minded Magistrates would be telling us sometimes of the late Plot in the North we gave forth the following Paper to stop their Mouths and to clear Truth and Friends therefrom Which was as followeth A Testimony from us the People of God whom the World call Quakers To all the Magistrates and Officers of what sort soever from the Highest to the Lowest WE are peaceable and seek the Peace and Good and Welfare of all Men and Women upon the Earth as in our Lives and peaceable Carriages is manifested and we desire the Eternal Good and Welfare of all and their Souls everlasting Peace We are Heirs of the Blessing before the Curse was and of the Power of God before the Devil was and before the Fall of Man We are Heirs of the Gospel of Peace which is the

of the Synagogues when they came to speak Judge your selves what an Antichristian Spirit you have Never talk of defending Truth with that which is against Truth For are you not setting up the Rabble of the World against it Do they not Join with you with Swords and Staves against it And is this the Life of Christians Is not this the Life of Error and of the Evil Seeds-man Surely ye would find Work enough if ye were in the Fear of the Lord to turn your Swords against the Prophaneness the Oaths and Wickedness that is in your Streets and High-ways How do they ring like Sodom and give a sound like Gomorrah But they are become a Prey in this your Age that Reprove in your Gate Sin Wickedness and Prophaneness They are become your By-word Against them your Councils are gathered and them you cast into Prison and hale them out of your Synagogues and cast them likewise into Prison that write against it and speak against it and set your Guards to stop and hinder any from Visiting them whom you cast into Prison and give them the Names of Vagabonds and Wanderers Was ever the like heard in the days of the Heathen against the Apostles who witnessed the Gospel Did they set Guards and Watches in every Town in every City to take the Disciples the Brethren the Believers that heard that the Apostles were cast into Prison and came to see what they wanted Shew ye not as much Rage and Fury now in your Age as was in those that were in that Age And how can you talk of the Gospel and of defending the Gospel when you are setting Guards and Watches against it and are defending that which stands against it and the Lambs of Christ are almost torn to pieces amongst you who are like Wolves for the Lord hath now sent his Lambs amongst Wolves And have not you profest the words of Christ and of the Prophets and Apostles as the Jews had long profest the Scriptures the words of Moses and of the Prophets that prophesied of Christ that was to come and stood against him when he was come as you do in this Day of his Reign and in this Day of his glorious Gospel who are persecuting the Messengers of it imprisoning them persecuting them in your Streets and High-ways and now setting up your VVatches against them who bring you the glad Tidings of Peace to your Souls whose Feet are beautiful a Top of the Mountains Mark a Top of the Mountains that against which the Mountains rage and swell but God will make them to melt the Sun is risen which will make them to melt And God will cleave the Rocks and Mountains asunder and make the Hills to bow perpetually for his Son he will exalt and his Glory he will give to him and not to another Therefore be awakened ye Rulers of the Earth and take Counsel of the Lord and take not Counsel together against him Make not your Bonds strong and set not your selves in Battel against him for ye will be found but as Briers and Thorns before him which the Fire shall consume Therefore be awakened all ye that be Talkers of the Scripture and that gather your selves together by your Multitudes and Meetings and have had your Teachers but not having the Spirit that gave forth the Scriptures the Lord God of Glory the Father of Spirits will scatter you all your Bonds will not hold you together who are out of the Spirit which is the Bond of Peace The Threshing Instrument is gone forth which will beat the Hills to pieces Sion is risen to Thresh out of the holy Mountain is the Trumpet sounded Stand not up against the Lord for all Nations are with the Lord as the Drop of a Bucket He that measures the VVaters in the hollow of his Hand and weighs the Earth in Scales the Lord of Hosts is his Name who is now risen and rising to plead the Cause of the Innocent who is exalting his Son and bringing his Sheep to him Now are they seen and known that feed upon wind that are lifted up given up to believe Lies who report and say Report and we will report it Now are they seen who have a Form of Godliness but the Power is denied by them so Christ is denied the Power it self is denied for Christ is the Power of God And the Power being denied by you that have a Form of Godliness that have the words of the Scriptures the Gospel is denied for the Gospel is the Power of God And thus it is among you that have the Knowledge and VVisdom that is sensual earthly and devilish Doth it not appear so Let your Gaols and VVatches witness your Fruits in every Town Your VVisdom is earthly sensual and Devillish so you have a Knowledge and VVisdom but not that which is from above for that is pure and gentle and so is not your knowledge But to know Christ is Life Eternal Now your Fruits have manifested that you are not of this and so out of the Power of God which is the Cross of Christ For you are found in the VVorld out of the Power of God out of the Cross of Christ persecuting So that which doth persecute and send forth VVritings and Decrees to stop all and take up all and set VVatches and prepare Bonds to stint the Lord to Imprison and persecute and suffer none to go to visit them This shews you are not Christians but stand against a Christian's Life which is to love your Enemies Where is your Heaping up Coles of Fire your Love to your Enemies who are thus persecuting your Friends He came to his own and his own received him not Here is a turning the Sword against the Just. Do you shew here a Christian's Life or your selves Christians who are filling your Gaols with the Christians in the Spirit you that be in the Letter in Shadows as the Jews in the Letter did put the Jews in the Spirit into Prison Is not this the Fruit in our Days of the Christians in the Letter to put the Christians in the Spirit into Prison And doth not this shew that your Decrees which you have sent forth proceed from Death who thus Act against the Life and them that be in it which the Scriptures were given forth from Is it not here as it was with Saul when he went to persecute to hale to Prison and bind all that he could find calling upon that Name who were Christians in the Life the Spirit such as now you are persecuting because they are in the Life though you profess their Words Are not your Decrees gone forth from the same Spirit of Envy against the same Spirit of Christ they were in Is it not manifest to all that fear God and to the sober-minded and honest-hearted People that see your Practices your Decrees your Letters to stop to molest to hinder to Imprison them that are moved of the Lord to do his Will or to go to

the Eternal life in Jesus Christ Who is also a quickening Spirit for as in Adam all died even so in Christ shall all be made alive So Christ that Died and Rose again is Lord both of the Living and of the Dead for the Living live to the Lord and die in him and are blessed All Christendom say that they do believe in God and in Christ and that they do believe Moses and the Prophets and preach Christ Moses and the Prophets So their Words and Writings are preached and printed and ye say ye do believe them But now what Life do ye live Are ye through the Law dead to the Law that ye may live unto God And are ye Crucified with Christ and doth Christ live in you And is the Life that ye now live in the flesh by the faith of the Son of God and ye do not live but Christ liveth in you who gave himself for you Is this your present Life for the Just live by the faith which Christ is the Author and Finisher of by which holy divine and precious Faith they have Victory over that which is vile and unholy and is not divine and in this Faith they do please God and have Access to God and his Son who fulfilleth the Law and the Prophets For the Law and the Prophets were until John and since that the Kingdom of God hath been preached and Men do press into it And the Least in the Kingdom of God is Greater than John though he was the greatest Prophet born of a Woman So see whether ye are in the Kingdom that stands in Peace and Righteousness and Joy in the Holy Ghost or not Christ who is the Image of the Invisible God the First-born of every Creature was before any Creature for by him were all things created that are in Heaven and that are in the Earth visible or invisible whether they be Thrones or Dominions or Principalities or Powers all things were created by him and for him and he was before all things and by him all things consist And he is the Head of the Body the Church and is the beginning the First-born from the dead So here ye may see that all things were made by Christ Jesus and all things were created for Christ Jesus and by him all things consist and have their being who is the First-born from the dead and dieth no more And it pleased the Father that in him all Fulness should dwell and by Christ to reconcile all things unto himself whether they be things in Heaven or things in the Earth And in him are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge who is the Head of all Principality and Power for all Power in Heaven and in Earth is given to him the First-born of every Creature and the First-born from the dead who liveth for evermore in his power over all the Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World and while the World's Spirit rules in mens hearts they do not know Christ nor the beginning nor ending of the Work of God Christ was outwardly crucified and slain without the Gates of Jerusalem by the disobedient Jews And they that hate the Light of Christ and disobey his Gospel and quench his Spirit and are erred from his Faith do crucifie to themselves Christ afresh So Adam and Eve and their Children that disobeyed God did slay the Lamb and the blind Jews that disobeyed God crucified Christ Jesus and the outward Christians that live and walk not in Christ but in Sin and Evil though they do make an outward Profession of Christ yet they do Crucifie to themselves Christ afresh But as to Christ himself he is Ascended far above all Principalities Thrones Powers and Dominions so that they cannot put him to death or Crucifie him any more as to himself But what the Killers and Crucifiers and Persecutors do now upon the Earth it is against Christ as in themselves and in his Members as Christ said to Saul Why Persecutest thou me Acts 9.4 For what is done to his Members Christ takes as done to himself Matth. 25.40 and 45. And they that did not visit Christ but persecuted him in his Members they persecuted Christ in themselves first The Serpent that Enemy to Man and Woman and Satan that Adversary to Man's prosperity and the Devil the destroyer the God of the World and Prince of the Air that ruleth in the hearts of the Disobedient he got in by disobedience But Christ bruises his head breaketh his power to pieces and destroys the Devil and his Works and through death destroys death and the Devil the power of death And so Christ the Light and Life hath all power in Heaven and Earth and openeth the Prison-doors and the Eyes of the blind and takes Captive him that hath led into Captivity and gives Gifts unto Men. And so Christ bindeth the strong man of sin and spoils his goods for Christ is stronger than the Devil and casts him out Hallelujah For the strong man of sin is the God of the World and his House is the whole World that lieth in Wickedness And the God of the World hath kept his house and his goods have been in peace until a stronger than he comes and binds the Devil and casts him out and then destroys him and his goods And so Christ the Son of God who is stronger than the Devil having destroyed the Devil and his Works setteth up his House and all the Believers in the Light are the Children of Light and are of the Son of God's spiritual House and the Son of God is over his House for evermore Glory to God in the Highest through Jesus Christ Amen God spake by the mouth of all his holy Prophets concerning Christ Jesus his Son the holy One so they were holy men and not unholy that God spake by And therefore all that name the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ are to depart from Iniquity Kingston upon Thames the 11th Month 1687. G. F. I returned to London towards the latter end of the Eleventh Month 1687. Chiswick Hammersmith visiting Friends in the way at Chiswick and at Hammersmith where I had Two Meetings one upon a First-day and the other upon the Occasion of a Marriage there at which were many of the World's People amongst whom I had a very seasonable Opportunity of opening the Way of Truth London Being come to London I visited Friends Meetings in and about the City as the Lord led me in whose Service I continued labouring in the City until the middle of the First Month 1687 8. Enfield Barnet Waltham-Abbey At which time I went down towards Enfield and visited Friends there and thereabouts and at Barnet and Waltham-Abbey and other places where I had many Meetings and very good Service amongst Friends in which I spent several Weeks And then returned to London London Yearly-Meeting where I continued labouring in the work of the Gospel of our Lord until after the