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George Fox: An Address Delivered to the Society of Friends contains Spurgeon’s address on November 6, 1866 to the Society of Friends. George Fox was the founder of the Society of Friends and lived through the English Civil War. Spurgeon acknowledges not only the theological influence of Fox, but also the lasting impact of the Quakers in social matters.

execution, but draws up a petition on her behalf, that her life may be spared; and when he visits Oliver Cromwell—let me say a right royal man, a true king—he is not at all abashed before the Protector, but speaks to him just as plainly as he speaks to the poor girl in the jail at Derby; he does not forget the little, or fear the great. When he writes to friend Charles the Second—who, by the bye, scarcely deserves so honorable a title—it is just in the self-same bold but courteous style. There is
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