“Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?”

—  George Fox

Quoted in "Memoir of George Fox", The Friends' Library: comprising journals, doctrinal treatises, and other writings of members of the Religious Society of Friends, edited by William Evans and Thomas Evans (1837) volume 1, page 76

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