Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt: ...me, My soul shall rest in everlasting peace, and my life shall enter into rest, /or being obedient to the God of my life. Marmaduke Stevenson, gave in another paper, informing the Court, how he heard a voice as he was plowing in York-'Williams, p. 207. Fox's Answer, pp. 229, 230. 1659. VIEWS OF THE QUAKERS ON INWARD LIGHT. 259 shire, saying, I have ordained thee a prophet unto the nations; and after he came to Rhode Island, he says: --The word of the Lord came unto me saying, Go to Boston, with thy brother William Robinson This is given forth to be upon record, that all people may know, who hear it, that Ave came not in our own will, but in the will of God.1 This was their way of following what they called the light, and the clearest account of what they meant thereby, that I have-seen, is contained in the following sentences directed to Mr. Williams, viz.: --Thou wrongest the Quakers in saying, they confess their light to be conscience. In this thou pervertest their words, and thou wouldest have it so; for George Fox's words are, The light which you call conscience, which is the light of Christ, as you may see all along in his book Thou hast read our books with an evil eye, or else thou mightest see how often we mention, that Christ hath bought us with a price, which is his blood; and how that all died in Adam, and how that Christ died for all, that they that live, might live to him; and that all might believe in him, who died for them; and if they do not, they are condemned with the light, which they should believe in Christ lighteth every man that cometh into the world,2 with life in him, the word and faith. He is the light of the world, and saith, Believe in the light, that ye may become children of light, and he that believeth is saved,
