… laws passed by the Presbyterians. Now they were the dissenters, not the Anglicans. Relf’s Marsden quote is misapplied. Marsden severely castigates the usurpers for their case-law and parliament-controlled religion. Their policies, he tells us, were ‘utterly untenable’ and ‘sanctified crime’ and ‘made revenge appear a Christian virtue’.
If Britain is under God’s judgement, as Mr Relf suggests, and as there is nothing new under the sun in human evil, the best …
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Contra Relf
Nov 10
… laws passed by the Presbyterians. Now they were the dissenters, not the Anglicans. Relf’s Marsden quote is misapplied. Marsden severely castigates the usurpers for their case-law and parliament-controlled religion. Their policies, he tells us, were ‘utterly untenable’ and ‘sanctified crime’ and ‘made revenge appear a Christian virtue’.
If Britain is under God’s judgement, as Mr Relf suggests, and as there is nothing new under the sun in human evil, the best …
… the sides that later commentators have suggested – were of Reformed-Puritan persuasion. 26 Marsden, in his excellent work The Early Puritans, shows how both parties in the controversy at Frankfurt were Puritan to a man and grew together rather than apart. This important side of the development is completely ignored by the pro Knox and pro Revolution faction as, shortly before Mary’s death, there was no trace of a Knoxian faction in the exiles churches whatsoever. Even Knox returned …
