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Josiah Gilbert Holland (search for this): entry fox-george
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Fox, George 1624-1691
Founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, England, in July, 1624.
His father, a Presbyterian, was too poor to give his son an education beyond reading and writing.
The son, who
George Fox. was grave and contemplative in temperament, was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and made the Scriptures his constant study.
The doctrines he afterwards taught were gradually fashioned in his mind, and believing himself to be called to disseminate them, he abandoned his trade at the age of nineteen, and began his spiritual work, leading a wandering life for some years, living in the woods, and practising rigid self-denial.
He first appeared as a preacher at Manchester, in 1648, and he was imprisoned as a disturber of the peace.
Then he travelled over England, meeting the same fate everywhere, but gaining many followers.
He warmly advocated all the Christian virtues, simplicity in worship, and in manner of living.
Brought before a j
1624 AD (search for this): entry fox-george
Fox, George 1624-1691
Founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, England, in July, 1624.
His father, a Presbyterian, was too poor to give his son an education beyond reading and writing.
The son, who
George Fox. was grave and contemplative in temperament, was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and made the Scriptures his constant study.
The doctrines he afterwards taught were gradually fashioned in his mind, and believing himself to be called to disseminate them, he abandoned his trade at the age of nineteen, and began his spiritual work, leading a wandering life for some years, living in the woods, and practising rigid self-denial.
He first appeared as a preacher at Manchester, in 1648, and he was imprisoned as a disturber of the peace.
Then he travelled over England, meeting the same fate everywhere, but gaining many followers.
He warmly advocated all the Christian virtues, simplicity in worship, and in manner of living.
Brought before a ju
January 13th, 1691 AD (search for this): entry fox-george
1691 AD (search for this): entry fox-george
Fox, George 1624-1691
Founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, England, in July, 1624.
His father, a Presbyterian, was too poor to give his son an education beyond reading and writing.
The son, who
George Fox. was grave and contemplative in temperament, was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and made the Scriptures his constant study.
The doctrines he afterwards taught were gradually fashioned in his mind, and believing himself to be called to disseminate them, he abandoned his trade at the age of nineteen, and began his spiritual work, leading a wandering life for some years, living in the woods, and practising rigid self-denial.
He first appeared as a preacher at Manchester, in 1648, and he was imprisoned as a disturber of the peace.
Then he travelled over England, meeting the same fate everywhere, but gaining many followers.
He warmly advocated all the Christian virtues, simplicity in worship, and in manner of living.
Brought before a ju
1672 AD (search for this): entry fox-george
1669 AD (search for this): entry fox-george
1650 AD (search for this): entry fox-george
1648 AD (search for this): entry fox-george
July, 1624 AD (search for this): entry fox-george
Fox, George 1624-1691
Founder of the Society of Friends, or Quakers; born in Drayton, Leicestershire, England, in July, 1624.
His father, a Presbyterian, was too poor to give his son an education beyond reading and writing.
The son, who
George Fox. was grave and contemplative in temperament, was apprenticed to a shoemaker, and made the Scriptures his constant study.
The doctrines he afterwards taught were gradually fashioned in his mind, and believing himself to be called to disseminate them, he abandoned his trade at the age of nineteen, and began his spiritual work, leading a wandering life for some years, living in the woods, and practising rigid self-denial.
He first appeared as a preacher at Manchester, in 1648, and he was imprisoned as a disturber of the peace.
Then he travelled over England, meeting the same fate everywhere, but gaining many followers.
He warmly advocated all the Christian virtues, simplicity in worship, and in manner of living.
Brought before a ju