The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth - As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens
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all his brethren, he shall be received."
(_b_) "They may not say God save anything. For they affirm that all things are ruled by Nature, and not directed by God." (_c_) "They did prohibit bearing of weapons, but at the length, perceiving themselves to be noted and marked for the same, they have allowed the bearing of staves." (_d_) "When a question is demanded of any of them, they do of order stay a great while ere they answer, and commonly their words shall be Surely or So." (_e_) "They hold that no man should be baptized before he is of the age of thirty years." (_f_) "They hold that heaven and hell are present in this world amongst us, and that there is none other."[18:1] (_g_) "They hold the Pope's service and this service now used in the Churches to be naught." (_h_) "They hold that all men that are not of their congregation, or that are revolted from them, to be dead." (_i_) "They hold that they ought to keep silence amongst themselves, that the liberty they have in the Lord may not be espied of others." (_k_) "They hold that no man should be put to death for his |
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