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before, in the work of the Lord. And coming to Mansfield 

 Woodhouse, there was a distracted woman, under a doctor's 

 hand, with her hair let loose all about her ears ; and he was 

 about to let her blood, she being first bound, and many people 

 being about her, holding her by violence ; but he could get no 

 blood from her. And I desired them to unbind her and let her 

 ilone ; for they could not touch the spirit in her by which she 

 was tormented. So they did unbind her, and I was moved to 

 ipeak to her, and in the name of the Lord to bid her be quiet 

 ind still. And she was so. And the Lord's power settled her 

 oiind and she mended ; and afterwards received the truth and 

 continued in it to her death. And the Lord's name was 

 honoured ; to whom the glory of all His works belongs. Many 

 great and wonderful things were wrought by the heavenly power 

 in those days. For the Lord made bare His omnipotent arm and 

 manifested His power to the astonishment of many ; by the 

 healing virtue whereof many have been delivered from great 

 infirmities, and the devils were made subject through His name : 

 of which particular instances might be given beyond what this 

 unbelieving age is able to receive or bear. x 



It needs no long study of Fox's writings, how- 

 ever, to arrive at the conviction that the distinc- 

 tion between subjective and objective verities had 

 not the same place in his mind as it has in that of 

 an ordinary mortal. When an ordinary person would 

 say " I thought so and so," or " I made up my 

 mind to do so and so," George Fox says, " It was 

 opened to me," or " at the command of God I 

 did so and so/' " Then at the command of God, on 

 the ninth day of the seventh month 1643 (Fox being 

 just nineteen), I left my relations and brake off all 



1 A Journal or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, 

 Sufferings, and Christian Experiences, &e., of George Fox. Ed. 

 1694, pp. 27, 28. 



