GEORGE FOX

An Autobiography

EDITED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY
RUFUS M. JONES, M.A., Litt. D.
PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HAVERFORD COLLEGE

Philadelphia:

FERRIS & LEACH
29 SOUTH SEVENTH STREET
1909

Dedicated

TO THE SWEET AND SHINING MEMORY OF THE LITTLE
LAD WHOSE BEAUTIFUL LIFE WAS A VISIBLE
REVELATION TO ME OF THE TRUTH, WHICH
THIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY TEACHES, THAT
THE DIVINE AND THE HUMAN
ARE NOT FAR-SUNDERED.

"It (George Fox's Journal) is one of the most extraordinaryand instructive narratives in the world; whichno reader of competent judgment can peruse withoutrevering the virtue of the writer."
—Sir James Mackintosh.

"The basis of his [George Fox's] teaching was thebelief that each soul is in religious matters answerable notto its fellows, but to God alone, without priestly mediation,because the Holy Spirit is immediately present in everysoul and is thus a direct cause of illumination. Fromthis central belief flowed two important practical consequences,both essentially modern; one was completetoleration, the other was complete equality of human beingsbefore the law."
—John Fiske.

"To sum up in fewest possible words the impressionmade by his [George Fox's] words and works upon one whostudies them across the level of two centuries: he was aman of lion-like courage and adamantine strength of will,absolutely truthful, devoted to the fulfillment of what hebelieved to be his God-appointed mission, and without anyof those side-long looks at worldly promotion and aggrandizementwhich many sincere leaders of church partieshave cast at intervals of their journey."
—Thomas Hodgkin.

"I have read through the ponderous folio of GeorgeFox. Pray, how may I return it to Mr. Skewell atIpswich? I fear to send such a treasure by a stage-coach,not that I am afraid of the coachman or the guardREADING it, but it might be lost. Can you put me ina way of sending it safely? The kind-hearted ownertrusted it to me for six MONTHS; I think I was aboutas many
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