George Fox (1624-1691)
Epistle 368
1681
To Suffering Friends
(At Horsham in Sussex)
DEAR Friends, who suffer for your Testimony, and to all the rest in your County, I am glad to hear of your Faithfulness, and of your standing for the Church which Christ is the Head of, which is in God, and are become his living Members; and therefore wheresoever ye are, in Prison, or out of Prison, where two or three are gathered in his Name, there is a Church, and Christ, the Living Head in the midst of his Kingdom, and a Bishop, to oversee his Living Members; that they be preserved in his Light, Grace, Truth, Spirit and Gospel; and he is . . . a High Priest mad higher than the Heavens, Heb. 7. And no Priest made below the Heavens will become Christ's Church; and therefore feel and see Christ exercising his Prophetical, Priestly and Kingly Offices, and his ruling in your Hearts.
