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GOSPEL TRUTH DEMONSTRATED,
IN A COLLECTION OF DOCTRINAL BOOKS,
GIVEN FORTH BY THAT FAITHFUL MINISTER OF JESUS CHRIST,
GEORGE FOX
CONTAINING PRINCIPLES ESSENTIAL TO CHRISTIANITY AND SALVATION,
HELD AMONG THE PEOPLE CALLED QUAKERS.
“Seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden
things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by the
manifestation of truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.”—2 Cor 4:1-2
IN THREE VOLUMES, PRINTED IN THE YEAR 1706, RE-PRINTED 1831, PHILADELPHIA
The following Table of Contents is to the Doctrine Books, I, II, and III of the eight volume set of The Works of George Fox. These doctrine books are full of outstanding writings, which are significant help in understanding the Bible, the Old Covenant, the New Covenant, and the true hope of the scriptures. The editor of this site has found some of these writings breath-taking in the understanding and hope presented, backed up with great depth of scriptures quoted. Fox's writings have been edited for modernized language, grammar, and punctuation [some still in process]. Many of Fox's words are directly from the King James Bible,* and many of them are linked for your reference and enjoyment.
If you would like to read more about who George Fox was, the 1st Chapter of his Journal is particularly recommended, which describes his youth and spiritual journey. His inspiring translation to paradise is detailed and concludes with being raised by Christ up to the state of Adam and Eve before the fall, still capable of falling to temptation and then raised to the state of Christ, to sit down in Christ, beyond Adam's state and not subject to falling to temptation.
In addition, there is also available a short summary of his life and the early Quakers that he founded.
Fox also has left 400 letters to the chruches he founded. These writings are almost all addressed to the spiritually mature Christians, those who had experienced the baptism of death, and Christ to be risen within them, to see his face, to fellowship with He and the Father, and to be living in paradise, while still on earth. These letters are full of spirit breathed exhortations and encouragements.
Fox's three doctrine books below are primarily written to the world of Christendom, the rulers of the people, and all peoples of the world. The original books are also available on this site for viewing in PDF format, in their unedited language. Once all the editing and linking has been finished, they will be available for PDF dowload - around 11/1/08. The red colored selections are particularly recommended for reading. Those in green, are the best of the best. All the titles can be clicked on to take you directly to the writing. May they be and inspiration to you on your journey to the Kingdom of God within, as you seek, listen, hear, and obey the voice of the Lord, the Word of God within your heart.
The Works of George Fox
Volume 6, Doctrine Book III
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- Concerning the apostate Christians, that think to do miracles by dead men's bones,
Of praying to the saints that are dead, and asking counsel of the dead, and praying for the dead.
Concerning the apostate christians' tradition of a purgatory, after they are dead.
Concerning the apostate Christians' traditions, of making a God or Christ of bread and wine; and of their bowing to him, and worshipping him, and eating him when they have done. We never read that the heathens, nor the apostate Jews, when they had made gods and bowed to them, and worshipped them, to eat them when they were done.
Concerning the traditions of the Jews, and apostate Christians.
Christ is the rock and foundation which the heavenly Father revealed to Peter, on which he builds his church, and not on Peter, nor that which flesh and blood had revealed to Peter.
- Concerning the antiquity of the people of God called Quakers;
their worship;
their mother, new and heavenly Jerusalem;
their faith, and who is the author and finisher of it;
their belief, their way, their original; their hope, distinct from the hope of the hypocrite that perishes;
their gospel, the true ministers, their leader and teacher, and that which gives them knowledge;
their mediator, their overseer,
the church of Christ's prayer, and
in what is their cross,
and their baptism.
- A spiritual or heavenly salutation to all the tender-hearted in Christendom, that are seeking the kingdom of God, and the righteousness thereof; which I desire and entreat them to read over, in the love of God, in which they are sent to them, from him that desires the good of all mankind here, and their eternal happiness hereafter.
Prayer and Singing [must be in the Spirit].
- The inward and spiritual warfare, and the false pretence of it. And a distinction between the true liberty and the false.
Shepherds, husbandmen, fishermen, and tradesmen made prophets and apostles, to preach the word of God, and set forth his glory.
Concerning purification by fire and water, in the old and new testament, and the eating of the heavenly bread, that people may grow thereby, and not be dwarfs.
How God has anointed the true ministers of Christ and his church, and they have the anointing in them.
Those who ignorantly say Christ reconciles the devil, who destroys him and his works, and slays the enmity.
How the son of perdition betrayed Christ without; and since his ascension betrays Christ within.
Concerning prayer by the spirit, without the Bible.
I. A distinction between the prophets of God, Christ, and his ministers, and the messengers of Satan; for the one preaches up Christ's works and things, and the other preaches up Satan's works and his evil things. Wherein you may clearly see, the outward body of man and woman is not the body of death, nor sins of the flesh, nor the old man with his deceitful lusts, which must be put off; and how that men and women had outward bodies, before the body of death, and sins of the flesh, and the old man came into them, and by what means they came into man, and by what means they are cast out again, while men and women are upon the earth. And how that the ministers of Satan teach people, that they must carry about them a body of death, and sins of the flesh, and imperfection, whilst on this side the grave, which never did the prophets of God, Christ, nor his apostles preach any such doctrine.
II. Priests the chief promoters of persecution, in the prophets, Christ, and the apostles' days, and since, and now the Lord is opening the eyes of people's understandings, that they will not let them ride upon them, as Balaam in his error upon his ass, for his wages of unrighteousness.
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VII. To all you priests, teachers, and professors, that mock and scoff at the motions of the spirit.
XI. Here you may see the heavenly and spiritual gifts that God and Christ gives to his ministers, are not to be bought and sold for money, and those who do, are in the bond of iniquity, and gall of bitterness, like Simon Magus.
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XV. Concerning the kingdom of God.
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