"Bring all into the worship of God. Plough up the fallow ground. Thresh and get out the corn; that the seed, the wheat, may be gathered into the barn: that to the beginning all people may come; to Christ, who was before the world was made. For the chaff is come upon the wheat by transgression. He that treads it out is out of transgression, fathoms transgression, puts a difference between the precious and the vile, can pick out the wheat from the tares, and gather into the garner; so brings to the lively hope the immortal soul, into God out of which it came. None worship God but who come to the principle of God, which they have transgressed. None are ploughed up but he who comes to the principle of God in him, that he hath transgressed. Then he doth service to God; then is the planting, watering, and increase from God."
George Fox
More at http://www.qis.net/~daruma/exhortation.html
George Fox
More at http://www.qis.net/~daruma/exhortation.html
Artwork by Ethel Spowers http://www.bookroomartpress.co.uk/biographies/29.html
Reminded of this quote by reading http://transitionquaker.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/ploughing-up-fallow-ground.html
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