"I have travelled from one end of England to another, and as yet could find very few that could define unto me the object of their worship, or give me a character what that God is, so much professed by them; yet notwithstanding I could come into no city, town, nor village, but there I heard the name God under one form or another, worshipped that for God, which I had experience was no God: So that in the period of my pilgrimage, I concluded there was gods many, and lords many, although to me but one God: Therefore at my return, I was carried out by God to hold forth to the creature, the God yesterday, to day, and for ever."
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Laurence Clarkson
1615 – 1667
Laurence Clarkson (1615–1667) was an English theologian, member of the Ranter movement and accused heretic. The Ranters were a dissident religious movement that occurred during the English Civil War and advocated for moral and spiritual beliefs that rejected the theological and moral authority of both the Catholic Church and the Church of England. The key theological ideas within the Ranter movement was the rejection of established Christian view of sin, in favor of the theological belief that s
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