These, and other circumstances which might be related, would doubtless operate powerfully upon him to make him believe, that he was a chosen vessel.

Now, if to these considerations it be added, that George Fox was not engaged in any particular or partial cause of benevolence, or mercy, or justice, but wholly and exclusively in a religious and spiritual work, and that it was the first of all his religious doctrines, that the spirit of God, _where men were obedient to it, guided them in their spiritual concerns_, he must have believed himself, on the consideration of his unparalleled success, to have been _providentially led_, or to have had an internal or spiritual commission for the cause, which he had undertaken.
But this belief was not confined to himself.

His followers believed in his commission also.

They had seen, like himself, the extraordinary success of his ministry.

They acknowledged the same internal admonitions, or revelations of the same spirit, in spiritual concerns.
They had been witnesses of his innocent and blameless life.