He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual?

In 1670 he had married another Quaker Christian Mollison (c. David Barclay of Urie had served under Gustavus Adolphus and pursued a somewhat tortuous course through the troubles of the civil war. Notes


See also
List of Governors of New Jersey.

Robert Barclay (23 December 1648 – 3 October 1690) was a Scottish Quaker one of the most eminent writers belonging to the Religious Society of Friends and a member of the Clan Barclay.