...origin and in its results. George Fox had been called out of " that nature whence wars arise," and " lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." Barclay too applied the peaceable ethic of Christ without flinching to the whole of life. Friends did...

...origin and in its results. George Fox had been called out of " that nature whence wars arise," and " lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." Barclay too applied the peaceable ethic of Christ without flinching to the whole of life. Friends did...

...origin and in its results. George Fox had been called out of " that nature whence wars arise," and " lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars." Barclay too applied the peaceable ethic of Christ without flinching to the whole of life. Friends did...

...the last. Fox himself had told the soldiers in Derby market-place that he could not fight, because he 'lived in the virtue of that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars.1 As a friend of his wrote, after his death many years later: 'George Fox was a discerner of other...

...knew from whence all wars did arise, 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 ".1 It was this reply of Fox which became the initial " testimony " of all Quakers. Individual experiences...

...wars did arise, even from the lust, according to James's doctrine'; and that I lived in the virtue oj that life and power that took away the occasion of all wars ".1 It was this reply of Fox which became the initial " testimony " of all Quakers. Individual experiences...

...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...