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For Ranters Christ in us is far more important than the historical Christ who died at Jerusalem, and 'all the commandments of God, both in the Old and New Testaments, are the fruits of the curse.' Since all men are now freed of the curse, they are also free of the commandments; our will is God's will.
— Oct 02, 2015 09:59PM
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Yet nothing ever wholly dies. Great Britain no doubt fared the worse in some respects for rejecting the truths of the radicals in the seventeenth century, but they were not utterly lost.
— Oct 04, 2015 09:55PM
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Abiezer Coppe: We had as lief be dead drunk every day of the week, and lie with whores i'th market place; and account them as good actions as taking the poor abused enslaved ploughman's money from him ... for killing of men."
— Oct 03, 2015 09:43PM
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Three months earlier, when a group of Presbyterian ministers visited the New Model Army at Oxford, 'the multitude of soldiers in a violent manner called upon us to prove our calling ... whether those that are called ministers had any more authority to preach in public than private Christians which were gifted.'
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From, say, 1645 to 1653, there was a great overturning, questioning, revaluing, of everything in England. Old institutions, old beliefs, old values came in question.
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