The Author towards the conclusion of this history, having given some
account of the principles of the people called Quakers, thought fit,
in the Dutch Appendix, among other things, to add the following
treatise in Latin, concerning the Light, written about the year 1662.
And since in this English translation the subject matters contained
in the said Appendix are inserted in the body of the history, in
those places to which they properly belong, and no reference being
made to this, but as mentioned in the preface, it is thought fit to
subjoin it here, with the following words of the Author prefixed to
the same.
In the preface to this history, mention is made of a certain book,
intitled ‘The Light upon the Candlestick,’ published in the name, as
many supposed, of William Ames, yet no ways written by him, though it
contains his doctrine, but by a certain learned man, unwilling to be
known publicly, and as it seems to me, written originally in Latin;
which, though printed, being but in few hands, I have thought fit to
reprint.
And the original in Latin, soon after the first publication, being
translated into English by B. F. was printed in the year 1663, from
which translation take it as follows, viz.