Finding little success in counterfeiting Quakerism, he turned to the Baptists, where, for a time, he met with better success.

Ellwood, at this time, rendered good service to his friends, by exposing the true character of these wretches, and bringing them to justice for theft, perjury, and other misdemeanors.
While this storm of persecution lasted, (a period of two or three years,) the different dissenting sects felt, in some measure, a common sympathy, and, while guarding themselves against their common foe, had little leisure for controversy with each other; but, as was natural, the abatement of their mutual suffering and danger was the signal for renewing their suspended quarrels.

The Baptists fell upon the Quakers, with pamphlet and sermon; the latter replied in the same way.

One of the most conspicuous of the Baptist disputants was the famous Jeremy Ives, with whom our friend Ellwood seems to have had a good deal of trouble.
"His name," says Ellwood, "was up for a topping Disputant.

He was well, read in the fallacies of logic, and was ready in framing syllogisms.