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Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

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Quoted in "Memoir of George Fox", The Friends' Library: comprising journals, doctrinal treatises, and other writings of members of the Religious Society of Friends, edited by William Evans and Thomas Evans (1837) volume 1, page 76

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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.

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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.

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There are too many talkers, and few walkers in Christ.

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