The journal of George Fox, vol. 1 of 2

Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION TO THE EIGHTH EDITION.

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An autobiographical account presents the author's spiritual awakening and subsequent itinerant ministry, describing travels, preaching, arrests, imprisonments, and encounters with magistrates, clergy, and seekers. It lays out the theological convictions and practices that shaped a dissenting religious community, including emphasis on inward guidance, plain worship, scriptural devotion, moral discipline, and communal testimony. The narrative alternates personal recollection and reflective exposition, documenting practical challenges of conscience and organization, and offering counsel on conduct, repentance, and reconciliation while tracing the gradual development of his followers and their public reception.

INTRODUCTION

TO THE EIGHTH EDITION.

The following Eighth Edition of The Journal of George Fox, taken from the Seventh Edition, as prepared by the late Wilson Armistead, of Leeds, has been carefully read and collated with the original or First Edition of that Work. And the reader can be confidently assured, making due allowance for the translation or omission of a few obsolete expressions, that the Work is now, in truth and substance, the same as when it was first printed. A large number of corrections in the spelling of names, and of other chiefly clerical errors, have also been made, bringing all down, so far as practicable, into harmony with the usage of the present date in these respects.

Daniel Pickard.

Leeds, 1891.