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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.

— George Fox Exhortation to ministers (1656)

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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.

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