"The very title Sin, it is only a name without substance, hath no being in God, nor in the creature, but only by imagination; and therefore it is said, the imaginations of your hearts are only evil continually. It is not the body, nor the life, but the imagination only, and that not at a time, or times, but continually. Herein sin admitting of no form in itself, is created a form in the estimation of the creature; so that which is not to God, is found to be in a something creature; as you have it related, One man esteemeth one day above another, another esteemeth every day alike: what to one is pure, to another is impure; herein it appeareth but a bare estimation."
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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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