Comments - The Belief that Overcomes the World - New Foundation Fellowship2024-03-28T21:24:42Zhttp://nffquaker.org/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=6286598%3ABlogPost%3A31701&xn_auth=noThanks, Rhonda, for the quote…tag:nffquaker.org,2017-06-16:6286598:Comment:317032017-06-16T22:54:18.910ZEllis Heinhttp://nffquaker.org/profile/EllisHein
<p>Thanks, Rhonda, for the quote concerning Fox's response to those who would have hired him as their minister. It has long been a favorite passage of mine from Fox's Journal. </p>
<p>In case anyone is interested in where to find that quote it is in Vol. 2, p. 128 of the Works of Fox and is also to be found on the CD Rom, <strong>The Journal of George Fox 1831 Edition,</strong> available from …</p>
<p>Thanks, Rhonda, for the quote concerning Fox's response to those who would have hired him as their minister. It has long been a favorite passage of mine from Fox's Journal. </p>
<p>In case anyone is interested in where to find that quote it is in Vol. 2, p. 128 of the Works of Fox and is also to be found on the CD Rom, <strong>The Journal of George Fox 1831 Edition,</strong> available from <a href="http://www.foundationpublicationsnffusa.org/publications/" target="_blank">http://www.foundationpublicationsnffusa.org/publications/</a></p> Ellis, I'm not being flippant…tag:nffquaker.org,2017-06-15:6286598:Comment:315032017-06-15T15:30:59.012ZRhonda Fullerhttp://nffquaker.org/profile/RhondaFuller
<p>Ellis, I'm not being flippant nor critical in saying this: apart from Terry Wallace and myself, thee is the first Quaker I've known to speak thus. My heart is gladdend. It is the Lord speaking to thee, in thee, through thee. Praise be to the Lord.</p>
<p>Just this morning I read from George Fox's Autobiography his response when he heard some of the magistrates (Rhode Island) say that if they had enough money they would hire him to be their minister. I quote it here in part. "This was where…</p>
<p>Ellis, I'm not being flippant nor critical in saying this: apart from Terry Wallace and myself, thee is the first Quaker I've known to speak thus. My heart is gladdend. It is the Lord speaking to thee, in thee, through thee. Praise be to the Lord.</p>
<p>Just this morning I read from George Fox's Autobiography his response when he heard some of the magistrates (Rhode Island) say that if they had enough money they would hire him to be their minister. I quote it here in part. "This was where they did not understand us well, and our principles; It is time for me to be gone; for if their eye were so much on me, or on any of us, they would not come to their own Teacher. For this thing had spoiled many, by hindering them from improving their own talents; whereas our labor is to bring every one to his own Teacher in himself." So many do not understand nor take to heart this foundational Quaker doctrine. It seems to me all else follows from owning Jesus as thy only Teacher.</p>
<p>That is why George Fox, like God through Moses to the Israelites, says repeatedly to us, keep to God/Jesus. What we come to when we take that admonition to heart is beyond our ability to imagine. His gifts to us are profuse; they become our wisdom, revealation, reproof, joy, and more. He raises us up.</p>
<p>Another George Fox quote in response to whether Quakers claim to be Jesus. "Nay, we are nothing. Christ is all." Indeed, He is.</p>
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