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Book Of Miracles
Book by Fox, George, Cadbury, Henry J.
176 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1973
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George Fox
347 books17 followersGeorge Fox was an English Dissenter and a founder of the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers or Friends.
The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs.
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The son of a Leicestershire weaver, Fox lived in a time of great social upheaval and war. He rebelled against the religious and political authorities by proposing an unusual and uncompromising approach to the Christian faith. He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs.
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June 10, 2013
This is the best Quaker book that Quakers know nothing about . . . but should! Fox supposedly did 170 miracles, some in this country. He cured a judge's daughter of a fever on the eastern shore of MD, and he raised a man from the dead on their way from NJ to MD!
What I see here on "Goodreads" says that the book is written by Rufus M. Jones, but it's written by Fox and edited by Henry Cadbury, and Rufus Jones and Jim Pym and Paul Anderson have prefaces.
The story of this book getting into print is a long, fascinating story. It's told in the book as part of the fun!
Get this book! Quakers, I'm particularly talking to you: Get it, and tell your Meeting about it!
What I see here on "Goodreads" says that the book is written by Rufus M. Jones, but it's written by Fox and edited by Henry Cadbury, and Rufus Jones and Jim Pym and Paul Anderson have prefaces.
The story of this book getting into print is a long, fascinating story. It's told in the book as part of the fun!
Get this book! Quakers, I'm particularly talking to you: Get it, and tell your Meeting about it!
July 12, 2014
George Fox is the founder of Quaker - his journals and essays are well read amongst the older Quakers - although as with many paths of spirituality - the people who are drawn to meetings these days are often not studying the foundations.
What is often unknown by most modern people who affiliate themselves as Quakers - are George Fox's miracles of healing. This little book - - which is actually written by George Fox - not Rufus M. Jones who was one of the editors who managed to get this book published - - gives us insight into some of the many cases that Fox was involved in healing.
The very paradigm that we are living in - the 5000 year old Domnator/Power Over Paradigm (formerly known as the Patriarchal paradigm but there are many women who have taken their place in its power structure without shifting it or even being aware of it) - has the ability to make unimportant the important freedoms that could help us free ourselves from it.
The Quaker's non-focus over the last hundred years on the miracles of Fox and others have been a very important mistake in the original quest for freedom from the paradigm - - and freedom for all which is part of the Quaker path. (Underground Railway, schools and teaching reading "illegally" to slaves, standing up against the USA Draft, etc) It was not done intentionally - - but miracles of healing and other gifts which followers are told to use are ignored - even though Christian New Testament scripture tell us are part of the Christan path - n fact we are told that it is our duty to go out and heal - - - Mathew 10: 8 "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with skin diseases, and throw out demons." amongst other passages.
It is not just in Quaker that these are passed over - - indeed in this current Dominaor Paradigm the miracles of Buddha are unknown by many practitioners of Buddhist premises and meditation. The teachings of using the natural gift of healing by Christian healer of the 1920s and on - Agnes Sanford are unknown by most as well (If you want to learn her work - - read her autobiography first - Sealed Orders as it helps to understand and really use her smaller books on healing: The Healing Light and Gifts of the Spirit - (most who just read the smaller books on healing end up frustrated and not allowing Agnes' important work help them in self and aid to healing others) - Agnes Sandford's work fading into oblivion of the Dominator Paradigm is truly a shame as it adds to the stumbling around in the dark and the helplessness that many people feel.
I would highly recommend reading Fox's miracles in this book and if you have interest - to read all of Agnes Sanford. With the internet - if you have more than a Christian interest you can find more on Buddha's miracles if you do a search. As well - - if you are looking to release more on the limits and helplessness that the negative Domnator Paradigm puts on humanity - - you might want to read the six books of Baird Spalding's 1920 venture into Tibet - Life and Teaching of the Master's of the Far East.
What is often unknown by most modern people who affiliate themselves as Quakers - are George Fox's miracles of healing. This little book - - which is actually written by George Fox - not Rufus M. Jones who was one of the editors who managed to get this book published - - gives us insight into some of the many cases that Fox was involved in healing.
The very paradigm that we are living in - the 5000 year old Domnator/Power Over Paradigm (formerly known as the Patriarchal paradigm but there are many women who have taken their place in its power structure without shifting it or even being aware of it) - has the ability to make unimportant the important freedoms that could help us free ourselves from it.
The Quaker's non-focus over the last hundred years on the miracles of Fox and others have been a very important mistake in the original quest for freedom from the paradigm - - and freedom for all which is part of the Quaker path. (Underground Railway, schools and teaching reading "illegally" to slaves, standing up against the USA Draft, etc) It was not done intentionally - - but miracles of healing and other gifts which followers are told to use are ignored - even though Christian New Testament scripture tell us are part of the Christan path - n fact we are told that it is our duty to go out and heal - - - Mathew 10: 8 "Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with skin diseases, and throw out demons." amongst other passages.
It is not just in Quaker that these are passed over - - indeed in this current Dominaor Paradigm the miracles of Buddha are unknown by many practitioners of Buddhist premises and meditation. The teachings of using the natural gift of healing by Christian healer of the 1920s and on - Agnes Sanford are unknown by most as well (If you want to learn her work - - read her autobiography first - Sealed Orders as it helps to understand and really use her smaller books on healing: The Healing Light and Gifts of the Spirit - (most who just read the smaller books on healing end up frustrated and not allowing Agnes' important work help them in self and aid to healing others) - Agnes Sandford's work fading into oblivion of the Dominator Paradigm is truly a shame as it adds to the stumbling around in the dark and the helplessness that many people feel.
I would highly recommend reading Fox's miracles in this book and if you have interest - to read all of Agnes Sanford. With the internet - if you have more than a Christian interest you can find more on Buddha's miracles if you do a search. As well - - if you are looking to release more on the limits and helplessness that the negative Domnator Paradigm puts on humanity - - you might want to read the six books of Baird Spalding's 1920 venture into Tibet - Life and Teaching of the Master's of the Far East.
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December 28, 2025I read this at the suggestion of Lloyd Lee Wilson, in preparation for a discussion about spiritual gifts and how to support them. It was not at all what I expected, but I really appreciated reading it.
The first hundred pages are the introduction by Henry Cadbury, whose thorough research is much more readable than most academics’. I learned a lot about the pamphlet wars between early Friends and their critics, as well as the various primary sources on Friends, particularly Fox, and how they were subsequently edited. It sounds dry, but I didn’t find it so at all.
The next 50 pages are the Book of Miracles - but all we have of it is the index! Nonetheless Cadbury did a masterful job of reconstructing what he could, based on other primary documents.
I seem to be the only person who has ever checked this out of the Gwynedd Friends Meeting library, so I’m not sure I’ll find many people to discuss it with, but it was a fascinating and informative read even if I have no idea why Lloyd Lee Wilson thought it would bed relevant to our discussion of spiritual gifts! I guess I’ll find out soon.
The first hundred pages are the introduction by Henry Cadbury, whose thorough research is much more readable than most academics’. I learned a lot about the pamphlet wars between early Friends and their critics, as well as the various primary sources on Friends, particularly Fox, and how they were subsequently edited. It sounds dry, but I didn’t find it so at all.
The next 50 pages are the Book of Miracles - but all we have of it is the index! Nonetheless Cadbury did a masterful job of reconstructing what he could, based on other primary documents.
I seem to be the only person who has ever checked this out of the Gwynedd Friends Meeting library, so I’m not sure I’ll find many people to discuss it with, but it was a fascinating and informative read even if I have no idea why Lloyd Lee Wilson thought it would bed relevant to our discussion of spiritual gifts! I guess I’ll find out soon.
July 27, 2011
An interesting read, but very verbose and didn't really "flow" easily. More a chore to read than enjobable.
January 29, 2021
Interesting discussion on miracles and what seen as miracles.
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