330 LIVES OF THE PURITANS. catcheth many into the fleshly pits and unprofitable forms, and keepeth the poor offsprine, of Adam in the outward court of this creation. I dare not believe what I hear of you. It is no matterwhat flesh without truth speaketh ; yet lovewould be satisfied. I long to know the teachings of God within, snore effectually concerning the hypostasis of the Lord Jesus, and in what spirit you leave off public teaching, and what the witnesses are, and the olive trees. If men, and books, and letters, were my teachers, I should little know myself in him who fashioned me; but the more spiritual any is, the more communicative, as the angels of the Father. Therefore I enquire what that mornine,-star is that is risen ; what vial, or seal, or trumpet are we mbsder ; and what manner of people shouldwe be in this age. It will in be as a word upon the wheel, and as apples of gold m pictures of silver, if you will let me hear further of truth from you, and of the wisdom of God, which, though it cannot be comprehended in any words, is thereby hinted, and so communicated. My true love, with my wive's, to yourself and to Mrs. Erbery. I add this truth, that I am " Yours in the love, light, and peace of " the Comforter, though as nothing, " Molt. LLOYD." Mr. Lloyd was well known and greatly esteemed in the Principality. Some have supposed that he was abaptist, but this appears extremely doubtful. He was pastor of a church formed upon the principles of the independents, which most probably held communion with certain persons of the baptist persuasion. He was author of several pieces, the titles of which we have not been able to collect. Having finished his labours, he died at Wrexham in the year 1659,. and Mr. Ambrose Mostyn, afterwards ejected in 1662, was his suc- cessor in the pastoral office.f EDWARD BARBER was a person of great learning, and first a minister in the established church, but long before the commencement of the civil wars he embraced the principles of the baPtists. He was the means, says Crosby, of convinc- ing many that infant-baptism has no fouedation in scripture, and soon gathered a numerous congregation. They as- sembled in the Spital in Bishopsgate-street, London ; and Thomas's MS. history, p. 159, 160. 1, Palmer's Noncon. Mem, vol. ill. p. 479.
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