. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. river Delaware in NorthAmerica, and made them abso-lute proprietors and governorsof that country. The name,too, was changed, in honor ofPenn, from the New Nether-lands to Pennsylvania. Uponthis he published A Brief Account of the Province of Pennsyl-vania, proposing an easy purchase of lands and good terms of set-tlement to such as
. What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries. river Delaware in NorthAmerica, and made them abso-lute proprietors and governorsof that country. The name,too, was changed, in honor ofPenn, from the New Nether-lands to Pennsylvania. Uponthis he published A Brief Account of the Province of Pennsyl-vania, proposing an easy purchase of lands and good terms of set-tlement to such as were inclined to move thither. In 16b2 heembarked for his new colony; in the following year he foundedPhiladelphia, and revisited England in 1684. The court favorwhich Penn enjoyed during the reign of James II. naturally ex-posed him to popular dislike and suspicion. Charges of a verygrave sort are brought against him by Lord Macaulay, which havebeen zealously controverted by other writers. The case is not soclear that we can come to any positive conclusion respecting Pennsguilt or innocence. He was deprived of his government of Penn-sylvania by William III., but had it restored to him, and in 1699he went there again. He returned to England two years CONNECTED WITH RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 53 His last years were full of care and trouble ; he was burdened withdebt, and he fell into a melancholy second childishness, anddied in 1718. There is an interesting Life of William Pennby Mr. Hep worth Dixon. Robert Barclay, the apologist of Quakerism, was born inMorayshire in 1G48. Sent to study at Paris, he embraced theRoman Catholic faith, but after his return to Scotland joined theSociety of Friends. Continuing his studies, he soon found occa-sion to apply his faculties and acquirements to the defence of hissect and the vindication of their doctrines. His works are ACatechism and Confession of Faith, Theses Theologicae, thebasis and outline of his most important work, the well-known
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