Thursday, August 22, 2019

Samuel Eaton and the sufficient Guide

Likewise, in his Epistle to the Reader, because Richard Waller witnesseth his Teacher within, and bids others to mind the Light within them; and that he was come off from all other Teachers, &c. he judgeth this to be delusion; Contrary to John the Apostle, who saith,  Ye need no man to teach you, but as the same anointing teacheth you, which is truth, and is no lye. John 2. 27. And again, in Heb. 8.  Ye shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know him from the least to the greatest: for the Lord will write his law in their hearts, and put his spirit within them, &c.

Source: The Great Mystery of the Great Whore, by George Fox, pg. 1, London, 1659
Dialogue One

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