General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . 1, a suitwas instituted against Fox and his wife for thenon-payment of tythes. According to his viewsof things, such payment was nothing less thana contribution to the support of a ministrywhich he considered to be unlawful, and there-fore he considered it to be his duty to refuBut the laws of the land had made no provisionfor such scruples, and the issue of tht suit, asmay easily be imagined, proved unfavourable toth
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . 1, a suitwas instituted against Fox and his wife for thenon-payment of tythes. According to his viewsof things, such payment was nothing less thana contribution to the support of a ministrywhich he considered to be unlawful, and there-fore he considered it to be his duty to refuBut the laws of the land had made no provisionfor such scruples, and the issue of tht suit, asmay easily be imagined, proved unfavourable tothe defendants. In the year 1684 Eox againvisited the continent, and passed sever.;! some of the United Provinces, in his usualoccupations. After his return from Holland,his health being greatly impaired by his inces-sant labours for more than forty years, and thehardships and inconveniences to which he hadbeen exposed, he went no more out of thevicinity of London. He departed this life in1690, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, nothaving been entirely incapacitated for publicpreaching till within a few days of his Fox, though an illiterate man, was not. FOX ( 197 ) F R A deficient in good natural abilities ; and was par-ticularly conversant in the language of the Scrip-tures. Of his piety, sincerity, and purity ofintention, he afforded throughout his laboriouslife abundant evidence. His imagination, how-ever, was too fervid and visionary ; and, at theopening of his career, led him into extrava-gances which were not only highly indecorous,but a species of that intolerance under whichhe was himself so grievous a surFerer. Wemore particularly allude to his interruptions ofdifferent ministers, while engaged in the dis-charge of the duties of their functions. After-wards, however, he restrained his outrageouszeal, and proved a peaceful teacher of what heconceived to be dictated by the inward light ofChrist within him ; and was deservedly the ob-ject of commiserat
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