...asked me if I would not take up arms for the Commonwealth against the King. But I told them I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars, and I knew from whence all wars did rise, from the lust according to James's doctrine.4 Still...

...I knew from whence all wars arose, even from lust, according to James's doctrine; and that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars. But they courted me to accept their offer, and thought I did but compliment them. But I told...

...to serve in the army, George Fox [founder of Quakerism] records that 'I told them . . . that I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." (Faith and Practice: A Book of Christian Discipline. Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, 1972 ed.,...

...impossible in the kingdom. The Quaker attitude to war is summed up in Fox's declaration that he "lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars."108 The Rules 101. Journal of George Fox, 128-29; cf. TC Jones, Fox's Attitude Toward War, 24-25....

...useful end, proffered him the position. But he turned them down with the classic comment that he "lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." Still they pressed, pleading that the offer was made out of love and kindness, until Fox, considering...

...captaincy in the parliamentary army, but, as he recorded in his Journal: 'I told them that 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 strifes.'11 Fox's...

...refusing military service, George Fox (1624-1691), the founder of Quakerism, declared that he "lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." 6 Not eoincidentally, early Friends emphasized equality of the sexes. Though later generations...

...founder of the Society of Friends, refused in 1647 to take up arms in the English civil war: 'I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars.' Fox's pacifism, rooted in a conviction of the fundamental contradiction between the spirit of...

...refer to this declaration as the Declaration of 1661. 82. Fox, Journal, ed. Nickalls, 65; 404. "I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars" was uttered in 1650, when Fox turned down the offer that would have cut short his prison sentence...

...proffered captaincy in the Parliamentary Army, but, as he recorded in his Journal: 'I told them l lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion ot all wars, and I knew from whence all wars did rise, from the lust according to James's doctrine...