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SM part 2 20 mins
author | Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> |
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date | Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:46:19 +0100 |
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files | HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt |
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--- a/HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt Sun Jun 27 22:30:11 2021 +0100 +++ b/HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt Tue Jul 06 22:46:19 2021 +0100 @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ Stuart Masters _The Early Quakers_ ========================== ---------------- Video 1 --------- +--------------- SM Video 1 --------- Mainstream Puritanism at the start of the Quaker period is quite straight Calvanism, with predestination of the Elect as the core. @@ -605,3 +605,47 @@ pent-up explosion of what had been repressed and you get the proliferation of sects [including Quakers]. +--------------- SM Video 2 --------- + +So what? + +Earthly authority and structures are not eternal + +Social divisions and hierarchy are a consequence of the Fall + +Those who set themselves above others and demand deference are guilty +of idolatry [wrt of a _human_ creation] + +However because _everything_ is changing, there's no particular +impetus towards planning, putting together a program of _earthly_ +changes. + + "The first man is proud and lofty, exalted above his brethren, a + self-lover, lives to the flesh, and follows the lusts of the flesh + in all things, and brings forth fruit to the flesh in all + things,... + + "The second man is humble and lowly, meek and full of love to all, + honors all men according to God, without respect of persons, would + have all to come to life, stands in the wisdom of God which is pure + and peaceable, is willing to be a fool to the world and serpent's + wisdom, content to suffer wrongs, buffetings, persecutions, + slanders, reviling, mocking, without seeking revenge, but bears all + the venom the serpent can cast upon him with patience and thereby + overcomes him and bruises his head, and is made perfect through + suffering, and counts it joy, and rejoices in the cross and loss of + all things that are visible, but looks at that which is eternal, + for he knows that he cannot have both; for to be a friend to the + world is the enemy of God." + +James Nayler _A Discovery of the First Wisdom from Beneath and the +Second Wisdom from Above_ 1653 [first single-authored publication] +http://www.qhpress.org/texts/nayler/1wisdom.html + + "God is against you... [7 times!]" + James Nayler ibid. + +[The Church [the bride of Christ] should remain silent so that Christ + [the husband] can be heard] + +Paused at 20:37