IN bringing forward a new Edition of the Life of THOMAS ELLWOOD, the publishers feel that little is needed from them to recommend a work, which from the earliest days of the Society of Friends has held its place, as an interesting and most valuable autobiography.
Contemporary and personally intimate with many of those self - devoted men, who in the stormy times of the English Commonwealth bore so noble a testimony to the true spirituality of the kingdom of Christ, the author was himself repeatedly a sufferer; and his unadorned narrative has frequent record of fines, losses, cruel and unjust imprisonments, patiently endured for the cause of Truth.
Thomas Ellwood was born and educated in a rank of society higher than many of his fellow