Pedestrianism

216 APPENDIX. " thy heart, bufot rget him who remembered thee inthy " distress, and giveup thyself to folly, lust,and vanity— " surely greatwill be thy condemnation."—The Apology is reared on the " ThesesTheologicce" being an exposition of the fifteen propositions contained in that work. The author's general plan is, to state the position he means to establish, and to support it by Scripturequotations appli­ cable to the case, or to deduce it by an argument inthe form of a syllogism. By this learnedwork, he acquired great celebrityas a deep theologian, profoundly skilled in the scriptures, the fathers, and church history. His next publication, which also appeared this year, is entitled, " TheAnarchy of the Ranters," and it is a vindication of the society from the imputation of disorderly practices in their discipline, of which they wereaccused by their ad­ versaries. About theend of September, the Apologist returned to Ury j and although he had obtained his father's release from confinement, yet he was not able to protect himself. On the 7 th November 1676, whaes committed to prison in Aberdeen, along with several other Quakers, for holding meetings forpublic worship, and did not regain hisliberty until the 9th of April 1677. While inprison, he wrote a treatise, entitled, " Universal Love consideredand established upon its right foundation" which was published after his release. He left Ury in May, and went to London to exert him­ self for the deliverance ofthe Quakers of the north country, who