George Fox: Founder of the Radically
Reforming Quakers
But,
instead of answering me, he asked
me what a church was? I told him the church was the pillar and ground of truth, made up of living stones, living members, a spiritual household, which Christ was the head of; but he
was not the head
of a mixed multitude, or of an old house made up of lime, stones and wood (Journal 25)