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  EPISTLE 141
  by George Fox
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Summary: God's justice will prevail, and those who seek righteousness
will be vindicated, even in the face of unjust treatment.

Topics: "Social Justice", "Righteous Judgment"
Scripture References: Job 29:17, Psalm 35:1, Proverbs 31:9, Isaiah 59:14, Luke 18:6

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George Fox preaches about gathering together the sufferings of those who
have been unjustly treated by authorities, urging them to document their
experiences and the names of those responsible for their suffering. He
calls for the oppressed to deliver these accounts to judges for
righteous judgment, emphasizing the importance of standing up for the
innocent and helpless. Fox reminds the congregation that God, the
ultimate just judge, will plead the cause of the oppressed and cast out
unjust rulers who fail to uphold righteousness.

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All Friends every where, that are in any sufferings, let your sufferings
be gathered up together in every county, ye that have suffered by
justices, or constables, or bailiffs; let your names be set to your
sufferings, and a name or two to witness them, and the names of them
that caused you to suffer. . . .

Now these not judging and doing justly, sheriffs, juries, constables not
doing justly, righteously, or equally; the sufferings being gathered
together, short and true, and their actions that have not been just and
righteous, who caused the righteous to suffer and truth to fall in the
gates, and in the streets, that equity cannot enter [Isa 59:14], (for
equity cannot enter where truth is fallen ; for that which lets in
equity is truth.) Gather up such your sufferings in every county, that
suffer by the unjust and unrighteous, and deliver them to the judges
that they may see it; that they may judge justly and see what is done in
the family to whom they give their charge, and what their master's
servants have done, justices, sheriff, constables.

And if the judge that sits in the gate will not judge righteously, nor
plead the cause of the innocent [Prov 31:19], nor help the helpless, nor
break the jaws of the wicked [Job 29:17] that tear and rend the
innocent, (but is light and vain,) God, who is just, is ready to plead
their cause [various, e.g. Psa 35:1], and to judge and cast out the
unjust judges [Luke 18:6].

For he that judgeth among the judges, (and relieves the oppressed, and
helps the helpless, and strengthens the weak hands and feeble knees [Isa
36:3], and gives righteousness to every one that loves it, to every one
whose intents are upright and  single,) gives true judgment agreeable to
that of himself in every one, and crosses the ends and intents of every
one that is from that, and gives judgment upon the unjust. . . .

G. F.

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/george-fox/epistle-141/
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