sound of trumpets. The Bishop hears himself proclaimed a traitor, and
cries out,

"Come, brother Pen, 'tis time we both were gone."]

[Footnote 22: For a specimen of his visions, see his Journal, page 13;
for his casting out of devils, page 26. I quote the folio edition of
1765.]

[Footnote 23: Journal, page 4]

[Footnote 24: Ibid. page 7.]

[Footnote 25: "What they know, they know naturally, who turn from the
command and err from the spirit, whose fruit withers, who saith that
Hebrew, Greek, and Latine is the original: before Babell was, the earth
was of one language; and Nimrod the cunning hunter, before the Lord
which came out of cursed Ham's stock, the original and builder of
Babell, whom God confounded with many languages, and this they say is
the original who erred from the spirit and command; and Pilate had his
original Hebrew, Greek and Latine, which crucified Christ and set over
him."--A message from the Lord to the Parliament of England by G. Fox,
1654. The same argument will be found in the journals, but has been put
by the editor into a little better English. "Dost thou think to make
ministers of Christ by these natural confused languages which sprung
from Babell, are admired in Babylon, and set atop of Christ, the Life,
by a persecutor?"-Page 64.]

[Footnote 26: His journal, before it was published, was revised by men
of more sense and knowledge than himself, and therefore, absurd as it
is, gives us no notion of his genuine style. The following is a fair
specimen. It is the exordium of one of his manifestoes. "Them which the
world who are without the fear of God calls Quakers in scorn do deny all
opinions, and they do deny all conceivings, and they do deny all sects,
and they do deny all imaginations, and notions, and judgments which
riseth out of the will and the thoughts, and do deny witchcraft and all
oaths, and the world and the works of it, and their worships and their
customs with the light, and do deny false ways and false worships,
seducers and deceivers which are now seen to be in the world with the
light, and with it they are condemned, which light leadeth to peace and
life from death which now thousands do witness the new teacher Christ,
him by whom the world was made, who raigns among the children of light,
and with the spirit and power of the living God, doth let them see and
know the chaff from the wheat, and doth see that which must be shaken
with that which cannot be shaken nor moved