 | F. Regina Psaki, Charles Hindley - 2001 - 394 páginas
...their insistence and flattery, about his "virtue," "as they said," maintaining that he "lived in die virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars" (J 65 ff.). In the horrible prison at Derby he feels deeply concerned about the fact that the... | |
 | Judith Wellman - 2004 - 326 páginas
...Quaker universalism was the basis for Friends' testimony against war. As George Fox said, he lived "in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." It also led to respect for other living creatures, to a sense of "unity with the creation."... | |
 | Robert A. Bowie - 2004 - 140 páginas
...Friends to King Charles II, 1660) 'I... told them I knew from whence all wars arose... and that I lived in the virtue of that life... and power that took away the occasion of all wars; and that I was come into the covenant... of peace which was before all wars and strife.' (George... | |
 | David Whitten Smith, Elizabeth Geraldine Burr - 2007 - 448 páginas
...165 1 , he refused to join Oliver Cromwell's army in order to get out of prison: "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. ... I told them I was come into the covenant of peace... | |
 | George Fox, Norman Penney, William Penn - 1962 - 852 páginas
...told those who pressed him to fight for Parliament in the Civil Wars. He had found what it meant to live ' in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars '. But he was far too shrewd an observer of his fellow men to suppose that this was true generally.... | |
 | 1906 - 480 páginas
...from whence all wars did arise, even from hist, according to St. James's doctrine, and tint I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." God's Will is Best. Author Unknown. WHICHEVER way tlie wind duth blow, Some heart is gl«d to... | |
 | John William Graham - 468 páginas
...George Fox was invited to become a Captain in the Commonwealth army. He declined, saying that he lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars. So he lay among the felons, filthily, for six months more. He thus rang true from the beginning.... | |
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I told them I knew from whence all wars arose, even from the 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. 
