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SM part 2 20 mins
author Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
date Tue, 06 Jul 2021 22:46:19 +0100
parents 78f233b76245
children a8cd8c5f39ea
files HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt
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 Stuart Masters _The Early Quakers_
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---------------- 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