>          What counts as debate here is Justine Record and
>     William Rassman, two friends from nearby Marion, in a heated
>     discussion about whether God directly determined Bush's
>     election and the Iraq War (he says) or whether human free
>     will had some small hand in it (she says).

"Now our work in the world is to hold forth the virtues of him that
hath called us; to live like God; not to own any thing in the world
which God doth not own; to forget our country, our kindred, our
father's house, and to live like persons of another country, of
another kindred, of another family; not to do any thing of ourselves,
and which is pleasing to the old nature; but all our words, all our
conversation, yeah, every thought in us, is to become new.

"We are also to be witnesses for God, and to propagate his life in the
world; to be instruments in his hand, to bring others out of death and
captivity into true life and liberty.  We are to fight against the
powers of darkness everywhere, as the Lord calleth us forth.

"...our only controversy is with that which captives and makes them
miserable; for we fight not all with flesh and blood, but with the
principality and power which led from God, and rule in it against God,
to the poor creature's ruin and destruction.

"...we are not man's enemies, against no righteous law, not against
relations, not against governments,not against any thing in the world
that is good; but only against that which is evil and corrupt.  And of
a truth, the corruption of things God hath shown us, and daily calls
us forth after an immediate manner to witness against."

  Isaac Penington
  from
             A brief Account of what we are, and what our work
  is in the world (from "The Way of LIfe and Death
  made manifest, and set before men)

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