He wrote many books and pamphlets, and kept a printer at Whitburn for his own use.

He may have been drawn to Morus by his interest in the history of Presbyterianism abroad, especially as Morus was of Scottish parentage, or by his interest in the proceedings of Presbyterian Church Courts in such cases of scandal as that of Morus.

At any rate, he defends Morus throughout most resolutely, and with a good deal of scholarly painstaking.

Milton, on the other hand, he thoroughly dislikes, and represents as a most malicious and un-Christian man, consciously untruthful, and of most lax theology to boot.

To be sure, he was the author of _Paradise Lost_; but that much-praised poem had serious religious defects too! There is something actually refreshing in the _naivete_ and courage with which the sturdy Professor of the Associate Synod propounds his own dissent from the common Milton-worship .-- The authority for Morus's acquaintanceship in Italy with Holstenius and Dati is the collection of his Latin Poems, a thin quarto, published at Paris in 1669, under the title of _Alexandri Mori Poemata_.