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To resume the account of his writings. While in prison at Aberdeen in 1677 he pub lished a treatise on Universal Love, the pur pose of which was to shew that his own sect possessed a larger measure of this divine attri bute, than any other church. As a fruit of' this spirit of general benevolence, he, in the same year, drew up a letter in Latin to all the Ambassadors and Deputies of the Christian Princes and States met at Nimeguen to consult the peace of Christendom, urging them to forward that good work, and pointing out the true causes of war, and its incompatibility with Christian principles. This was delivered, along with copies of his Apology (as above men tioned), and is said to have been received with the respect due to the author's character and good intentions. A Latin letter concerning the Possibility and Necessity of an inward and immediate Revelation, which he had written in 1676 to Adrian Pacts, a person of distinction in Holland, he translated into Eng lish, and published in 1686. This was the last of his erformances and as it relates to a fundamenteg doctrine of quakerism, has been reckoned, though short, one of the most im portant of them. Much of his time appears to have passed in Journies undertaken for the be nefit of the society, both In promulgating their doctrines, and employing his interest in pro tecting its members from Oppression. In com mon with William Penn, he seems to have been on terms of considerable intimacy with James. II., who, feeling the necessity he and his party had for a free toleration, affected to be the great patron of liberty of conscience. It is sprobable, too, that the non-resisting princi ples of the quakers in civil matters gave him. A.
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