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Margaret Fox
Wife of George Fox
"..central
to Quaker thought, followers were urged to turn to the light of Christ
within themselves: they were `spiritual millenarians'.
They relegated the importance of the Scriptures in favour of the
pre-eminence of this inner spirit, and so rejected the necessity for an
educated clergy to lead and interpret. What mattered was not so much
biblical stories about Christ and the past, but one's own
present. Heaven was within the believer. Nathaniel Smith turned to
Quakerism for this very reason, that `the Kingdom of Heaven was in Man'."
"For the outward law, which was written in tables of Stone, which was to the
Jews onely, is changed, and the circumcision which was outward, and the
Sabboath which was outward, and the Priests which were outward, and the
Temple which was outward; these were figures, tipes, and shadows of him, who
was to come; the body, and substance of these is CHRIST JESUS, who comes to
fulfil the Law, and is the end of the Law for Righteousness; who washeth,
and cleanseth, and purgeth by his blood, all that come unto the Father by
him" (A Call
Out of Egypt's Darkness - 1668)
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