Excerpt from The Peace of Europe: The Fruits of Solitude and Other Writings Now began his ardent desire after pure and Spiritual religion (of which he had before received some taste or relish through the ministry of one Thomas Loe, a Quaker) to Show itself; for he, with certain other students of that university, withdrawing from the national way of worship, held private meetings for the exercise of religion, where they both preached and prayed amongst themselves. This gave great offence to the heads of the college, and he, being but sixteen years oi_ age, was fined for nonconformity. Which small stroke of persecution, not at all abating the fervour of his zeal, he was at length, for persevering in the like religious practices, expelled the college.

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