, what gives to see that which
is shaken and moved, such as live in the notions, opinions, conceivings,
and thoughts and fancies these be all shaken and comes to be on heaps,
which they who witness those things before mentioned shaken and removed
walks in peace not seen and discerned by them who walks in those things
unremoved and not shaken."--A Warning to the World that are Groping in
the Dark, by G. Fox, 1655.]
[Footnote 27: See the piece entitled, Concerning Good morrow and Good
even, the World's Customs, but by the Light which into the World is come
by it made manifest to all who be in the Darkness, by G. Fox, 1657.]
[Footnote 28: Journal, page 166.]
[Footnote 29: Epistle from Harlingen, 11th of 6th month, 1677.]
[Footnote 30: Of Bowings, by G. Fox, 1657.]
[Footnote 31: See, for example, the Journal, pages 24. 26. and 51.]
[Footnote 32: See, for example, the Epistle to Sawkey, a justice of
the peace, in the journal, page 86.; the Epistle to William Larnpitt,
a clergyman, which begins, "The word of the Lord to thee, oh Lampitt,"
page 80.; and the Epistle to another clergyman whom he calls Priest
Tatham, page 92.]
[Footnote 33: Journal, page 55.]
[Footnote 34: Ibid. Page 300.]
[Footnote 35: Ibid. page 323.]
[Footnote 36: Ibid. page 48.]
[Footnote 37: "Especially of late," says Leslie, the keenest of all the
enemies of the sect, "some of them have made nearer advances towards
Christianity than ever before; and among them the ingenious Mr. Penn has
of late refined some of their gross notions, and brought them into some
form, and has made them speak sense and English, of both which George
Fox, their first and great apostle, was totally ignorant..... They
endeavour all they can to make it appear that their doctrine was uniform
from the beginning, and that there has been no alteration; and therefore
they take upon them to defend all the writings of George Fox, and others
of the first Quakers, and turn and wind them to make them (but it is
impossible) agree with what they teach now at this day." (The Snake in
the Grass, 3rd ed. 1698. Introduction.) Leslie was always more civil to
his brother Jacobite Penn than to any other Quaker. Penn himself says of
his master, "As abruptly and brokenly as sometimes his sentences would
fall from him about divine things; it is well known they were often as
texts to many fairer declarations." That is to say, George Fox talked
nonsense and some of his friends paraphr
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