Milton in the Puritan Revolution, Volume 64; Volume 896Presented as a left-wing radical - challenging traditions, church and state, the impulse arising from his own rebellious individualism. |
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... Protestant Nonconformists.175 In his brief tract , To All that Pro- fesse Christianity ( 1661 ) George Fox , Jr. , pleads for mutual toler- ance and gentleness , making no exception , as most Protestants did , of the despised Papists ...
... Protestant Nonconformists.175 In his brief tract , To All that Pro- fesse Christianity ( 1661 ) George Fox , Jr. , pleads for mutual toler- ance and gentleness , making no exception , as most Protestants did , of the despised Papists ...
Page 116
... Protestant toleration than an argument against tolerating Catholics . Milton had reasons enough to plead for the cause of the dissenters , thousands of whom , until March 15 , 1672 , had suffered from the time of the Restoration ...
... Protestant toleration than an argument against tolerating Catholics . Milton had reasons enough to plead for the cause of the dissenters , thousands of whom , until March 15 , 1672 , had suffered from the time of the Restoration ...
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... Protestants have nothing but the indi- vidual's belief of wrong . How much worse , then , for a Protestant , having no authority except his own judgment , to force the religious beliefs of other Protestants , than it is for a Catholic ...
... Protestants have nothing but the indi- vidual's belief of wrong . How much worse , then , for a Protestant , having no authority except his own judgment , to force the religious beliefs of other Protestants , than it is for a Catholic ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION I | 1 |
Sonnet On the Lord Gen Fairfax | 15 |
A RADICAL SECTARY IN THE MAKING | 41 |
Copyright | |
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