...battle. The post was offered to him because of his virtue and manly qualities. " 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' doctrine I was come...

...single standard of conduct before God and man. The Children of Light lived, as Fox said in 1651, ' in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars,' and the Society of Friends has steadily maintained the unlawfulness of war to the Christian. Friends...

...Commonwealth soldiers to become their Captain, George Fox, the first publisher of Quaker truth, replied that he lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all war. And to attain this attitude of mind has been the aim of f Quakers as a body ever since. In obedience...

...attempt was made to draft George Fox into the Parliamentary Army, he said to Cromwell's Captain : " I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all war." A distinguished modern interpreter of Quakerism has expressed the same idea as follows: "The...

...with him in 1650, Fox wrote in his Journal: "I told him 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." During World War I, the right of conscientious objectors was not recognized and many Friends went to...

...when George Fox was offered release from prison if he would join the army, he refused. "I told them I lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." 11 The refusal to participate in wars was first given a public corporate expression in 1660 in a declaration...

...compliments, and 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 they...

...unwillingness 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., pp. 34-5.)...

...them, 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 them,...

...influence to a 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...