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 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa dura

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Whatever the prejudices of some may suggest, it will be admitted by all unbiassed judges, that the Protestant Reformation was neither more nor less than an open rebellion. Indeed, the mere mention of private judgment, on which it was avowedly based, is enough to substantiate this fact. To establish the right of private judgment, was to appeal from the Church to individuals; it was to increase the play of each man's intellect it was to test the Opinion of the priesthood by the opinions of laymen it was, in fact, a rising of the scholars against their teachers, of the ruled against their rulers. - buckle.

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