"And for my owne part, the Lord himselfe hath so firmly by his owne enlightening Spirit so fully convinced me, and set…"

"I am a Free-man, yea, a free borne Denizen of England, and I have been in the field with my sword in my hand, to vent…"

"I am not against the Parliaments setting up a State-Government for such a Church as they shall thinke fit, to make th…"

"GOD, the absolute Soveraign Lord and King, of all things in heaven and earth, the originall fountain, and cause of al…"

"Lilburne's political importance is easy to explain. In a revolution where others argued about the respective rights o…"

"If the World was emptied of all but John Lilbourne, Lilbourne would quarrel with John, and John with Lilbourne."

"Is John departed? and is Lilburn gone? Farewel to both, to Lilburn and to John, Yet being dead take this advice from …"

"The more I thought about it, the more obsessed I became with the idea of a swimming journey. I started to dream ever …"

"From water level, I observed the mating joined in flight like refuelling aircraft, and the random progress of the clo…"

"It is through trees that we see and hear the wind: woodland people can tell the species of a tree from the sound it m…"