Early Quakers as mystics

Elizabeth Brown reflects on a series of workshops held in London that explored the living encounters of early Quakers with the spirit of God

by Elizabeth Brown 15th June 2012

Give over thine own willing. Give over thine own running. Give over thine own desiring to know or be anything, and sink down to the seed which God sows in thy heart, and let that be in thee, and grow in thee, and breathe in thee, and act in thee, and thou shalt know by sweet experience that the Lord knows that and loves and owns that, and will lead it to the inheritance of life, which is his portion.  - Isaac Penington