George Fox

From Autobiography of George Fox

There came another time the widow of old Lord Fairfax, and with her a great company ; one of whom was a priest. I was moved to declare the truth to them, and the priest asked me why we said ~{!0~}thou~{!1~} and ~{!0~}thee~{!1~} to people ; for he counted us but fools and idiots for speaking so. I asked him whether those that translated the Scriptures and made the grammar and accidence were fools and idiots, seeing they translated the scriptures so, and made the grammar so, ~{!0~}thou~{!1~} to one, and ~{!0~}you~{!1~} to more than one, and left it so to us. If they were fools and idiots, why had not he and such as he, who looked upon themselves as wise men, altered the grammar, accidence, and Bible, and put the plural instead of the singular. Thus the priest~{!/~}s mouth was stopped ; many of the company acknowledge the truth, and were pretty loving and tender. Some would have given me money, but I would not receive it.

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* * * Before I left the city* I heard of a great doctor lately come from Poland, whom I invited to my lodging, and had a great deal of discourse with him. After I had informed myself by him of such things as I had a desire to know, I wrote a letter to the King of Poland on behalf of Friends at Dantzik, who had long been under grievous sufferings.

( page 383 )

    * This seems to have been London in the year of 1685 : but (?). — WPT

London : Partridge, 1896.

Fox, George, 1624-1691. Title(s) The autobiography of George Fox. Ed. by Henry Stanley Newman. Publisher Lond., Partridge [1886] Paging 422 p. port.