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Robert Barclay

Born: 1648
Died: 1690

Scottish Quaker theologian and governor of East Jersey whose Theses Theologicae and Apology for the True Christian Divinity (Latin 1676, English 1678) gave the Society of Friends its classic systematic defence.

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No portrait of Robert Barclay is known; shown: the title page of his Apology for the True Christian Divinity (London, 1678)

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An Apology for the True Christian Divinity1678

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An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

The classic systematic defence of Quaker belief: fifteen theses on immediate revelation, Scripture, universal and saving light, justification, perfection, worship, the ministry, baptism and the supper, set out and defended against Reformed and Catholic objections. It rejects the outward sacraments, so it differs from the library's other confessional traditions.

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