[482] R.A. Vaughan's Hours with the Mystics, ii. 391.
[483] C. Leslie, 'Snake in the Grass.'—Works, iv. 21.
[484] Dr. Sherlock, On Public Worship, chap. iii. § 1, 4.
[485] Warburton's 'Alliance.'—Works, 1788, iv. 53.
[486] Tatler, No. 257.
[487] Canon Curteis remarks of the early Quakers, 'What was urgently wanted, and what Christ (I think) was really commissioning George Fox and others to do, was not a destructive, but a constructive work,—the work of breathing fresh life into old forms, recovering the true meaning of old symbols, raising from the dead old words that needed translating into modern equivalents.'—G.H. Curteis, Dissent in Relation to the Church of England, 268.
[488] C. Leslie, 'Defence, &c.'—Works, v. 164.
[489] C. Leslie, Works, iv. 428.
[490] R. Barclay's Apology for the Quakers, 259.
[491] No doubt some forms of Quakerism (for in it, as in every form of mystic theology, there were many varieties) lost sight almost altogether of any idea of atonement. Cf. British Quarterly, October 1874, 337; C. Leslie, 'Satan Disrobed.'—Works, iv. 398-418; id. v. 100.