He is a preacher of the new faith, a zealous and earnest believer in the gifts of the Spirit, but not like John de Labadie or the lady Schurmans.
(J.de Labadie, Anna Maria Schurmans, and others, dissenters from the French Protestants, established themselves in Holland, 1670.) "He speaks like one sent on a message from heaven, a message of wisdom and salvation.

Come, Ernest, and see him; for he hath but a brief hour to tarry with us.

Who knoweth but that this stranger may be commissioned to lead us to that which we have so long and anxiously sought for,--the truth as it is in God.
"LEONORA." "Now may Heaven bless the sweet enthusiast for this interruption of my bitter reflections!" said the student, in the earnest tenderness of impassioned feeling.

"She knows how gladly I shall obey her summons; she knows how readily I shall forsake the dogmas of our wisest schoolmen, to obey the slightest wishes of a heart pure and generous as hers." He passed hastily through one of the principal streets of the city to the dwelling of the lady, Eleonora.
In a large and gorgeous apartment sat the Englishman, his plain and simple garb contrasting strongly with the richness and luxury around him.

He was apparently quite young, and of a tall and commanding figure.