Robert Barclay, a Scottish laird educated in Paris, became the systematic theologian of early Quakerism. His Apology for the True Christian Divinity (1676) defends the inward light, silent worship and the refusal of violence in the vocabulary of the schools. The persona is grounded in the Apology and the Catechism and Confession of Faith.
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In the voice of Robert Barclay
(1648–1690)
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True rest is not chiefly a thing we take by willful ceasing but a gift we receive as we wait inwardly upon God, lay down our own wisdom, and are refreshed by the rising of the divine Light.
