DELL, JONAS († 1665)

Jonas Dell, cuáquero murió en Stepney en 1665. Es mencionado en los escritos polémicos de su tiempo como 'el soldado tembloroso', siendo en un tiempo soldado en el ejército parlamentario. Antes de unirse a la Sociedad de Amigos en 1657 o 1658 era puritano. Escribió: Christ held forth by the Word, the onely way to the Father; or a Treatise discovering to all the differences betweene Lawes, Bondage, and the Gospel's Liberty, 1646; Forms the Pillars of Anti-Christ; but Christ in Spirit the True Teacher of His People; and not Tradition... Written in Scotland in opposition to some people who do imitate John the Baptist by dipping themselves in water, &c., 1656; A Voyce from the Temple. The Word of God, the Covenant of Light, doth discover and declare the Anabaptist so called to be in a reprobate state, 1658.