The journal of George Fox, vol. 2 of 2

Chapter 2: INTRODUCTION TO THE EIGHTH EDITION.

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A personal journal recounts extended itinerant ministry across the country, recording meetings and conversions, confrontations with civil and religious authorities, repeated imprisonments, and legal disputes over oaths and tithes. It combines narrative incidents—travels, jail conditions, and public debates—with spiritual reflections, visions, and written admonitions aimed at clergy and magistrates. It also outlines organizational measures for establishing regular local meetings and disciplining members, and describes efforts to protect poor adherents harmed by persecution. The tone mixes episodic travel account and didactic guidance, portraying sustained efforts to sustain a disciplined spiritual fellowship under pressure.

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.