The Life of George Fox, the Founder of the Quakers: Fully and Impartially Related on the Authority of His Own Journal and Letters, and the Historians of His Own SectSaunders, Otley, 1860 - 317 pages |
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Page 198 - I saw and felt a waft of death go forth against him : and when I came to him he looked like a dead man. After I had laid the sufferings of Friends before him, and had warned him according as I was moved to speak to him, he bade me come to his house.
Page 301 - Let your women keep silence in the churches : for it is not permitted unto them to speak : but they are commanded to be under obedience, as 35 also saith the law.
Page 87 - As I went thus crying through the streets, there seemed to me to be a channel of blood running down the streets, and the market-place appeared like a pool of blood. When I had declared what was upon me, and felt myself clear, I went out of the town in peace; and returning to the shepherds gave them some money, and took my shoes of them again. But the fire of the Lord was so...
Page 86 - I was commanded by the Lord to pull off my shoes. I stood still, for it was Winter; and the word of the Lord was like a fire in me. So I put off my shoes, and left them with the shepherds ; and the poor shepherds trembled and were astonished. Then I walked on about a mile, and as soon as I was got within the city, the word of the Lord came to me again, saying, " Cry, Woe unto the bloody city of Lichfield.
Page 214 - Sympson was moved of the Lord to go, at several times for three years, naked and barefoot before them, as a sign unto them, in markets, courts, towns, cities, to priests...
Page 302 - Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence.
Page 131 - While he struck me, I was made to sing in the Lord's power ; and that made him rage the more. Then he fetched a fiddler, and brought him in where I was, and set him to play, thinking to vex me thereby ; but while he played, I was moved in the everlasting power of the Lord God to sing ; and my voice drowned the noise of the fiddle, and struck and confounded them, and made them give over fiddling and go their way.
Page 280 - I took his head in both my hands, and setting my knees against the tree, I raised his head, and perceived there was nothing out or broken that way. Then I put one hand under his chin, and the other behind his head, and raised his head two or three times with all my strength, and brought it in. I soon perceived his neck began to grow stiff again, and then he began to rattle in his throat, and quickly after to breathe. The people were amazed ; but I bade them have a good heart, be of good faith, and...