The experience of being gathered by God leads into the experience of being guided by God. This was not just the experience of individuals, important though this is. The key to the development of Quakerism is the understanding of corporate guidance which tests and informs individual leadings. At the heart of this is the meeting for worship where Christ, the Inward Light, is present and is met. Fox often wrote that Christ has come to teach his people himself. From this teaching comes Quaker faith & practice.
The testimonies
Simplicity
Plainness of dress also sprang from following Truth. Joan Vokins (d 1690) wrote to her children in 1686:
Be careful and take heed that you do not stain the testimony of Truth that you have received, by wearing of needless things and following the world's fashions in your clothing and attire, but remember how I have bred you up.
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