![]() ![]() Preached to and attending a structured religious service. God within and be moved to speak of the experience rather than being In other words, they believed, one could feel the salvation of Rather than that of the formal and ceremonial religious practices of the ![]() Fox and his early converts shared similar dissatisfaction withĪnd they believed in a more personal and direct spiritual experience "inner light" and a personal experience with God's salvation. This was due to Quaker founder George Fox and his belief of an Quakers were one of the few that sustained and expanded. Independent religious sects in England in the mid 1600s due to theĬonventionality and stringent rules of the formal Church of England. Ultimately, this persecution and their desire for spiritualįreedom led them to flee England and establish a religious haven in Practices were so radical that persecution fell upon them. Whose values and beliefs went against the convention of the Church ofĬalled themselves the Society of Friends, or Quakers, whose faith and In the mid-1600s, a new, independent religious sect was founded
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