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Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?
Now I see there is a people risen that I cannot win with gifts or honours, offices or places; but all other sects and people I can.
Oh, no, it is not the Scriptures, and was commanded to tell them God did not dwell in temples made with hands.
Friends, meet together and know one another in that which is eternal, which was before the world was.
Epistle 149 (1657)
Your teacher is within you; look not forth; it will teach you lying in bed, going abroad, to shun all occasion of sin and evil.
Journal (1694)
There are too many talkers, and few walkers in Christ.
Epistle 244 (1666)
I was come up to the state of Adam which he was in before he fell.
Journal (1694)
Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in everyone; whereby in them you may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you.
Exhortation to ministers (1656)
You will say, Christ saith this, and the apostles say this; but what canst thou say? Art thou a child of Light and hast walked in the Light, and what thou speakest is it inwardly from God?
What! are all true Christians priests? Yes. What! are women priests? Yes, women priests.
Epistle 249 (1667)
I was moved also to cry against all sorts of music, and against the mountebanks playing tricks on their stages, for they burdened the pure life, and stirred up people's minds to vanity.
Journal (1694)
The Lord showed me, so that I did see clearly, that he did not dwell in these temples which men had commanded and set up, but in people's hearts … his people were his temple, and he dwelt in them.
Journal (1694)
Now was I come up in spirit through the flaming sword into the paradise of God. All things were new, and all the creation gave another smell unto me than before.
They asked me whether the Scripture was the word of God. I said, God was the Word and the Scriptures were writings; and the Word was before writings were, which Word did fulfil them.
Now, when the Lord God and his son, Jesus Christ, did send me forth into the world, to preach his everlasting gospel and kingdom, I was glad that I was commanded to turn people to that inward light, spirit, and grace, by which all might know their salvation, and their way to God; even that divine Spirit which would lead them into all Truth and which I infallibly knew would never deceive any.
Journal (1694)
These are members of the Church who know the work in the operation and feeling and come to be members one of another. They who come to the Church that is in God and Christ, must come out of the state that Adam is in, in the Fall, to know the state that he was in before he fell.
Journal (1694)
Keep your Meetings, waiting in the Light, which from the Lord Jesus Christ doth come; so will ye receive Power from him, and have the refreshing Springs of Life opened to your Souls, and be kept sensible of the tender Mercies of the Lord.
Epistle 105 (1655)
When all my hopes… in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, "There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition"; and when I heard it my heart did leap for joy.
Journal (1694)
I told the Commonwealth Commissioners I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars... I told them I was come into the covenant of peace which was before wars and strife were.
I saw that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness. And in that also I saw the infinite love of God; and I had great openings.
Journal (1694)