SOME PRINCIPLES OF THE Elect People of God Who in Scorn are called QUAKERS,
For all People throughout all Christendome to Read over, and thereby their own States to Consider.
By GEORGE. FOX.
LONDON,
Printed for Robert Wilson, 1661. [Copy obtained from W.H. Jenks Collection, Magill Library, Haverford College. Catalog no. BX 7733 S6 1661; accession no. 53279.]
A
TABLE
Of the particular Things treated of
in this BOOK.
CONCERNING
1. Worship.
2. Church.
3. The Way.
4. The Cross.
5. True Fellowship.
6. The Gospel.
7. Faith.
8. Baptism.
9. Persecution.
10. The Scriptures.
11. Tithes.
12. The Higher Power.
13. Christs Kingdom, how it is set up, and how not.
14. Teachers, Shepherds, Bishops, Elders, &c.
15. An Exhortation to whole Christendome, to mind the Grace of God, the Light.
16. Perfection.
17. The Resurrection.
18. Election and Reprobation.
19. Trembling and Quaking.
20. The Body of Death.
21. Thou to a single Person.
22. Hatts, Scraping, Curtesies, and Complements.
23. Good Manners.
24. The Worlds Objection about the Preaching of Christ, Answered.
25. Bread, Water and Wine.
26. The Sabbath Day.
27. God-fathers, and God-mothers, and Sprinkling Infants.
28. The word Trinity.
29. The Ministry.
30. Dayes and Times, Meats and Drinks.
31. Marriages.
32. False Prophets and Antichrists.
33. The Peoples Objection, Answered.
34. The Original.
35. Plots.
36. The Jew outward; and
-The Heathen that do the Law;
- The Christian in the Power; and
- The Christian out of the Power.
37. Christ the Covenant of God.
38. Swearing. (*not included in this copy)
Some PRINCIPLES of the Elect People of God, who in Scorn are Called QUAKERS, &c.
A Salutation of the Salvation to all People in that which is called Christendom, for them to come in at the Door, which is Christ the Light, by which every one is Enlightened that comes into the World, by Christ the Light which is the Way to God, and the Door out of the World through which they must enter in unto the Father from the World, and from Darkness, and Death, and the Power of it, into Covenant with God, through the Door Christ; And this is the Light, in which Light you see all your Evil Actions, you have evilly acted; and all your ungodly deeds you have ungodlily committed; and all your ungodly thoughts you have ungodlily thought, & all your hard ungodly speeches you have spoken; The Light which Christ hath Enlightened you withall, is that which makes manifest all that is contrary to it; The same Light makes manifest the Saviour from whence it comes, And makes manifest Christ to be the Covenant of Light and Life through which you may come to have Peace with God.
I say the same Light makes manifest to you (if you love it) that Christ is the Mediator betwixt you and God; the same Light makes manifest Christ the offering for your Sins, and the Sins of the whole World; The same Light makes manifest that Christ is the Way, the Truth, the Life, and the Word of God, by whom all things were made and Created; And the same Light makes manifest Christ to be the Wisdom of God, and the Power of God, and the Sanctification, and the Justification; and the Redemption, to Sanctifie, and to Justifie, and to Redeem from that which the Light doth make manifest to be Evil, which lets and holds in the Separation from God.
And this Light is within, by which all these things are seen, and you that love this Light, you will see all these things above mentioned; Christ the Mediator, Christ the Way, the Life, the Wisdom, the Sanctifier, the Redeemer, the Offering for your Sins, and the Sins of the whole World; in that Light you will have the Testimony of it; and so he that believes will have the Testimony and Witness in himself.
And so you all being Enlightened with the Light, receiving it, you receive Christ; you receive not Darkness nor the Prince of Darkness; And as many of you as do receive Christ, to them he will give Power to become the Sons of God; (Mark) you shall have Power through which you shall know Sonship, and not onely to stand against Sin and Evil, but become Sons of God.