[1] This document, though, as stated above, not written by Fox, had his approval, and may be taken as exactly expressing his views and his position. Many of the early Quaker books show how remarkable was the corporate character and the group-spirit of the "Society" at this period. Whatever any individual could contribute was given for the common cause and went into the life of the whole. I have given the passages, which I have quoted from this "Epistle," in modern English.
[2] The Great Mystery of the Great Whore (London, 1659), p. B1. Jacob Boehme had already set Fox the example of calling the existing Church by this opprobrious name. See The Threefold Life of Man, vii., 56-58.
[3] The Great Mystery of the Great Whore, p. B3.
[4] Ibid. p. A6.
[5] Ibid. pp. A5-A7.
[6] Ibid. p. B4. This is almost word for word Boehme's view.
[7] The Great Mystery of the Great Whore, p. C3.
[8] Ibid. p. B1.
[9] The Great Mystery of the Great Whore, p. B2. I have taken some liberty in correcting the grammatical form of the passage quoted, but the original sense is preserved.
[10] Ibid. p. C2.