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The journal of George Fox, vol. 2 of 2

Chapter 29: INDEX II. PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS.
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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.

INDEX II.

PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS.

  • Adam, the first and second, compared, ii. 446;
    • his state before the fall, attainable, i. 28, 346;
    • his innocency, a higher state than, even a state in Christ, attainable, i. 28, 419, ii. 136, 200, 218, 239;
    • his perfection, a doctrine not endured by professors, i. 34.
  • Antichrists and false Prophets, discovered, etc., i. 91, 160, 314, 336, ii. 416, 440, 487.
  • Apostacy, entered since the Apostles’ days, i. 338.
  • Apostates and Professors, have Scriptures in the form, but not in the power or Spirit, i. 11, 109;
    • are censorious judges, ii. 330.
  • Apostles and Prophets, the power and Spirit of, attainable now, i. 34, 262, 428, 515, ii. 153;
    • were husbandmen and tradesmen, ii. 480, 481.
  • Apparel, pride therein testified against, ii. 412.
  • Apprentices, recommended to be put forth, ii. 119.
  • Atheists, confounded, i. 26.
  • Backsliders, their state, ii. 245;
  • *Banishment of Friends, ii. 68, 69, 282, 485.
  • Baptism of the Spirit, i. 340, 342.
  • Baptism in water, i. 46, 262, 340;
    • why permitted to some of the early Christians, i. 340.
  • Battledore, The, a short account of it, i. 513, ii. 19.
  • Believers, are horn of God, and are freed from sin, i. 7, 56;
    • are taught by the Anointing, i. 7, 59, 307, 336, ii. 271;
    • enjoy everlasting life on earth, ii. 466.
  • Bible. See Scriptures.
  • Bigamy, disowned, ii. 185.
  • Birth, the first and second, distinguished, i. 200;
    • the true one is persecuted, but does not persecute, i. 308, ii. 305.
  • Blind and deaf men, not enlisted as soldiers, either outwardly or inwardly, ii. 496.
  • Blind, not received for sacrifice, ii. 248.
  • Blood of Christ, seen spiritually, i. 24, 430;
    • professors will only have it without them, i. 24.
  • Body and blood of Christ, i. 340, 429.
  • Body of death and sin, not the outward body, i. 181.
  • Burial grounds, recommended to be provided, ii. 149.
  • Capital punishments for small matters, testified against, i. 70, 72.
  • Ceremonies, Jewish and Heathenish, to be departed from, i. 37, 93;
    • why permitted for a time under the Gospel, i. 340.
  • Christ, of the seed of Abraham and the Son of God, i. 254;
    • his name is called “The Word of God,” i. 306;
    • his outward appearance, acknowledged, i. 69;
    • he died for all men, i. 36, 526, ii. 136, 186;
    • is the Ensign, prophesied of by Isaiah, ii. 494-497;
    • his coming, reign, and kingdom in the heart, i. 314, ii. 225.
  • *Christ within, recommended to, i. 50, 102, 104, 108, 161, 167, 335, 341, 418;
  • Christening of children, an anti-Scriptural practice, i. 37, ii. 100.
  • *Church, what it is, i. 20, 25, 99, 112, 131, 182, ii. 65, 437;
    • is in God, i. 345.
  • Church order, supported, ii. 417.
  • Circumcision, etc., permitted to some of the early Christians, and why, i. 340.
  • Cloisters and Monasteries anti-Scriptural, i. 428.
  • Condemnation comes through unbelief, ii. 112.
  • Conscience is the book out of which man is judged, i. 437.
  • *Conventicles, seditious, disclaimed, ii. 121.
  • Crooked ways, in man’s heart, i. 16.
  • Cross of Christ is the power of God, i. 18, 191, 312, 345.
  • Crosses and Images denied, i. 37.
  • Days and Times not to be observed now, i. 340, ii. 204.
  • Deceivers, who are the greatest, i. 30, ii. 246.
  • Declaration against plots and fighting, i. 494.
    • See Charles II.
  • Devil, not made by God, i. 231, ii. 7.
  • Differences, how to be terminated, ii. 333.
  • Disputes, with priests and professors, i. 25, 86-88, 116, 119, 130, 160, 181, 182, 184, 200-206, 252, 285, 369, 376, ii. 60, 62, 185, 212, 217.
  • Dreams, distinguished and explained, i. 9.
  • Drinking of healths, testified against, i. 23.
  • Drinking to excess, reproved, i. 39, 334, 459.
  • Dwarfs, not to offer on God’s altar, but may eat of the holy bread, ii. 468, 473, 502.
  • Election is in Christ, i. 263, ii. 113.
  • Election and Reprobation, owned and explained, i. 92, ii. 113;
    • unconditional, priests’ doctrine thereof denied, i. 394, ii. 113.
  • Evil thoughts, how subdued, i. 58.
  • Evil natures described, they are within, i. 59, ii. 135.
  • Faith, stands in the power of God and not in man, ii. 236, 239;
    • its powerful operation and effect, ii. 236;
    • stays the mind and gives access to God, i. 15, 397;
    • in it there is no schism, ii. 238;
    • without sin, and gives victory over it, i. 397.
  • Fall, the, state of man therein, opened, i. 32, 125, 345, ii. 136.
  • False Prophets and Antichrists, their marks, i. 91, 160, 314, 336, ii. 416, 440, 487.
  • False Liberty, judged by the Spirit, ii. 329, 417.
  • Fashions of the world denounced, i. 38, 219, ii. 412, 493.
  • Fasts, the true and false distinguished, i. 363, 435, ii. 303-305.
  • Flesh, the, wars against the spirit, i. 18.
  • *Friends, their belief in Christ and concerning the Scriptures stated, ii. 155;
    • excommunicated, i. 404, ii. 64, 65;
    • prosper through their integrity, i. 186;
    • kept out of their meeting-houses, ii. 132, 375-377, 387;
    • their meeting-houses pulled down, ii. 132;
    • offer to lie in prison for one another, i. 248, 318, 439;
    • prophesied against, i. 134, 185, 194, ii. 254;
    • their faithfulness is said by some to have preserved the nation from debauchery, ii. 134.
  • Knowledge, spiritual, learned within, i. 10;
    • spiritual and fleshly, distinguished, i. 11.
  • Law, the, its types and shadows only known by the Spirit, i. 33;
    • what it is, its operation and effect, i. 15, 16, 23;
    • is written in the heart, i. 246, 349, 355, ii. 270;
    • is distinguished from the Gospel, i. 16, 17.
  • Liberty of conscience granted generally, ii. 453.
  • Light and Darkness, how seen, i. 19.
  • Light, the, obedience thereto, recommended, i. 65;
    • is the Law, the Power, and the image of God, i. 193;
    • is the Covenant, i. 194;
    • is a Reprover, i. 353, 356, ii. 185;
    • is a Judge, i. 187, 242, 267, 274, 347, 366, 408, 460, ii. 462;
    • is a Guide and Leader, i. 187, 435;
    • is the Life in Christ the Word, i. 333, 377, 397, ii. 35, 466, 497;
    • gives an understanding of the things of the kingdom, i. 187;
    • gives a sight and sense of inward mysteries, i. 14, 187, 242, 254, 362, 433;
    • gives victory over sin, i. 433;
    • gives the knowledge of the true fast, i. 365, 366;
    • comes from Christ, i. 254, 321;
    • convinces and converts, i. 65, 192;
    • manifests Christ in his various offices, i. 165;
    • shows us our evil deeds and our Saviour, i. 121, 165, 267;
    • brings out of the evil state, i. 60;
    • manifests that which is for judgment, i. 367;
    • in it God is felt revealing his secrets, and inspiring the mind, i. 347;
    • by it Christ is seen, i. 191, 254, 303, 411;
    • without it none come to Christ, i. 304;
    • being felt, Christ is felt, i. 223;
    • those who hate it set up hirelings and idol-temples, i. 151;
    • they who walk in it come to God’s teaching, i. 16;
    • they who love it are taught of God, i. 151;
    • they who oppose it are apostates, i. 347;
    • believers in it believe in the everlasting covenant, i. 191;
    • believers in it come to the life of Moses and the Prophets, i. 191;
    • none are God’s people who are not baptised into this principle, i. 36, 348.
  • Light, the, within, is the Light of Christ, i. 384;
    • is the way to God, i. 36;
    • its power and efficacy, i. 384, 385;
    • leads to salvation and the day-star, i. 397.
  • Light, the, of Christ, directed to, i. 97, 124, 126, 182, 204, 213, 238, 254, 264, 265, 336, 368, 378, 379, 408, 411, 421, 436, 437, 460;
    • shows Christ to be a Redeemer, and Saviour, and Way to God, i. 110;
    • gives a sight and sense of sin, i. 97, 121, 151, 303, 379;
    • makes all things manifest, i. 15, 17, 275, 303;
    • is not the natural conscience, or a natural created light, i. 333, 370, 377, ii. 35, 463;
    • its universality denied by professors, i. 350, ii. 34;
    • in the conscience, a doctrine not endured by priests and professors but derided by them, i. 204, 254, ii. 463;
    • they who believe in it are in the Election, i. 396.
  • Longevity, instances of, ii. 15, 75.
  • *Marriage, by a priest, anti-Scriptural, ii. 65, 75;
    • the principle and practice of Friends relative thereto stated, ii. 399;
    • of Friends, their mode sanctioned by Scripture examples, ii. 75;
    • attended by G. Fox, ii. 75, 170;
    • of Friends, the regulations of the Society thereon, ii. 88, 89, 137, 148, 149, 250, 399;
    • of Friends, questioned at Nottingham Assizes, but declared valid, i. 520.
  • Meal time, few words spoken at, informed against, ii. 133.
  • Meditation, how it ought to be exercised, ii. 368.
  • Meetings of Friends, held and settled, i. 27, 29, 123, 265, 373, 404.
  • *Meetings for Discipline, established in London and throughout the nation, i. 469, 470, ii. 80, 97, 164, 247, 279, 283;
  • Ministers of Christ, preach freely, i. 41, 91, 93, 201, 223, 339, ii. 65;
    • not necessarily made at colleges, i. 7, 11, 37, 48, 386, 414, 415, 480-482;
    • must have his Spirit, i. 17;
    • advice respecting public opposition to, i. 345.
  • Ministers, tried and ejected by Commonwealth, i. 223, ii. 86;
    • ejected by Charles II., i. 504.
  • Ministry, the true and false distinguished, i. 17.
  • Miracles, outward, i. 45, 46, 49, 133, 159, 252, 255, 258, ii. 176, 179, 184, 192, 233, 377.
  • Moses and Christ, compared, ii. 477.
  • Natures of creatures, seen, i. 19, 28, 125.
  • *Negroes, exhorted to diligence, etc., and counselled not to rebel, ii. 149, 157, 158;
    • to be instructed and in due time liberated, ii. 157, 158, 502.
  • News, people are too much busied therewith, ii. 482.
  • Oaths. See Swearing.
  • Obedience, known in the Light, i. 384;
    • to that which convicts of evil, recommended, i. 65;
    • to the grace of God, the way to receive salvation, ii. 9, 101;
    • keeps in the Lord’s fear, i. 65;
    • of faith, destroys imaginations and temptations, i. 61.
  • Offering, the true and false, distinguished, ii. 450.
  • Parable of the talents, commented on, i. 353.
  • Peace, the first step thereto is to stand still in the Light, i. 121, 432.
  • Perfection in Christ, ii. 218, 449;
  • Persecution, judged and exposed, i. 147, 149, 287-303, 334, 387, 403, 434, 481, 522, 526, ii. 24-34, 65, 69, 132, 204, 281, 314, 320, 374-376, 387.
  • Pleasure and Wantonness denied, i. 323-325.
  • Plots, denied and declared against, i. 448, 493-500, ii. 216, 348, 415.
  • Popularity, that which leads to it, denied, ii. 236.
  • Powers of the earth, not to be meddled with by Friends, i. 426.
  • Power of the Lord makes priests and professors tremble, i. 89.
  • Prayer, in man’s will denied, i. 24;
    • true, defined, i. 205, 390, ii. 303;
    • false, how discerned, i. 15, 205;
    • in the Spirit, approved, i. 37, ii. 449, 450.
  • Priests, declared against, i. 91, 200-206, 210, 223;
    • their state opened, i. 29, 116;
    • are miserable comforters, i. 5, 6;
    • their objections answered, i. 336-343;
    • are Friends’ chief persecutors, i. 48, 137, 147, 504, ii. 211;
    • make a Church faith, which is answered by G. Fox, i. 441, see Savoy, Conference;
    • sell the Scriptures, i. 41, 114;
    • pray by a form, i. 205;
    • hunt after a fallen benefice, i. 251;
    • no other trade comparable to theirs, i. 41;
    • cannot separate spirit and letter, i. 141;
    • reproved by the populace, i. 139;
    • oppose toleration, i. 505;
    • likened to the Pharisees and Jews of old for their persecutions, etc., i. 215-219;
    • cannot endure the doctrine of the Light, i. 254, ii. 463.
    • See Disputes.
  • *Prison, life in, i. 283, 504, 521, 524.
  • Prisoners in jail, learn wickedness of each other, i. 71;
    • more speedy justice to them recommended, i. 71.
  • Professions, the three learned ones, opened, i. 29.
  • Prophecy by women concerning Chas. II. and parliament, i. 445, 446.
  • *Quakers, a nickname, i. 105, 211, 242, 343, 476;
    • first called so by Justice Bennet, i. 58;
    • the children of Light, i. 501;
    • not a Sect, but dwell in the power of God, i. 242, 476.
  • Quaking and trembling, i. 23, 105, 126, 168, 238, 501.
  • Registers and Records recommended to be kept, ii. 149.
  • Revelation, immediate and objective, not ceased, i. 34.
  • Riches warned against, ii. 493.
  • Righteousness, attainable in this life, i. 2.
  • Temple where God dwells, what it is, and what it is not, i. 8, 91, 131, 182, 207.
  • Temptations, how destroyed, i. 61;
    • not to be looked at, but the Light which discovers them, i. 433.
  • “Thou” and “Thee,” to a single person enjoined and practised, i. 38, 83, 185, 513, ii. 62.
  • Tithes, testified against, i. 93, 176, 248, 338, 339, ii. 65, 262, 355;
  • Unjust dealing testified against, i. 39.
  • Waiting, recommended, i. 13, 15, 85, 112, 187, 188, 193, 452;
  • *War denied and testified against, i. 68, 72, 209, 448, 450, 494, ii. 298.
  • Wisdom, the true and the false, distinguished, i. 388;
    • is received in the Light, i. 192.
  • Witness of God, is in the heart, i. 244.
  • *Women’s preaching defended, i. 9, ii. 405.
  • Women’s meetings, their settlement opposed, ii. 202, 203, 248-250, 317.
  • Works of the flesh and of the Spirit, distinguished, i. 17.
  • Worship, the true declared, i. 514;
    • the world’s renounced, i. 37;
    • of the beast and dragon, set up in the apostacy, i. 338.