Note 138-1 — Chapter IV · THE PRAYER AND ITS ANSWER.
Reading edition
Joseph John Gurney, The Distinguishing Views and Practices of the Society of Friends, pp. 58, 59, 76, 78. An easy consequence of this view was to place the decrees of the internal monitor above the written word. This was advocated mainly by Elias Hicks, who expressed his doctrine in the words: “As no spring can rise higher than its fountain, so likewise the Scriptures can only direct to the fountain whence they originated—the Spirit of Truth.” Letters of Elias Hicks, p. 228 (Phila., 1861).