'Dearly beloved Friends, these things we do not lay upon you as a rule or form to walk by; but that all, with a measure of the light which is pure and holy, may be guided; and so in the light walking and abiding, these things may be fulfilled in the Spirit, not in the letter, for the letter killeth, but the Spirit giveth life.' From Friends' meeting for business held in Balby in Yorkshire in November 1656.