An Apology for the True Christian Divinity

Robert Barclay · 1676

Barclay was in his twenties when he wrote this, and it is a lawyer’s book: fifteen propositions, each one argued and then defended against the objections it was likely to meet. He was explaining the Quakers to people who believed they held no doctrine at all, and the centre of his case is a light he says enlightens every person, whether or not they have ever heard a name for it.