Chapter 7 - Testimony
This talk introduces the concepts of “testimony”, letting your life speak, and answering that of God in others.
George Fox’s 1656 letter from Launceston Gaol
Friends,
In the power of life and wisdom, and dread of the Lord God of life, and heaven, and earth, dwell, that in the wisdom of God over all ye may be preserved, and be a terror to all the adversaries of God, and a dread, answering that of God in them all…
And this is the word of the Lord God to you all, and a charge to you all in the presence of the living God.
Be patterns, be examples in all countries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come; that your carriage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them. Then you will come to walk cheerfully over the world, answering that of God in every one; whereby in them ye may be a blessing, and make the witness of God in them to bless you. Then to the Lord God you will be a sweet savour and a blessing...