changeset 217:e7c612f002e7

BPD into the 18th c. paused 34:59
author Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
date Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:51:16 +0100
parents d22798363116
children acb2f8dd65ed
files HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt
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--- a/HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt	Tue Jul 13 19:15:19 2021 +0100
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 C.f. 1656 A Trumpet sounded forth out of Zion, with 23 targets, the
 first is Oliver Cromwell.
 
-Paused at 17:04
+A call to repentance, you've let us down.  It's in your face,
+full-blooded spiritual warfare, the Lamb's War.
+
+Three years later, Edward Burrough is writing to government saying "be
+nice to us", "are you setting a good example".
+
+Fell, then Fox, in 1661, "we utterly deny all outward wars", c.f. the
+Fifth Monarchy Men: we're harmless and innocent.
+
+The beginning of the Peace Testimony, maybe, but the end of a
+prophetic visionary outward approach.  Instead, a pragmatic Quakerism
+that's trying to cut a deal, to ensure the survival.
+
+By 1666 the rhetoric of Heaven on Earth is pretty much gone, replaced
+by a lot of emphasis of regulating the church.  The beginning of the
+meantime == the Quietist period.  A snooze button has been pressed.
+
+If you no longer think the future is no longer now.  Barclay hedges
+his bets on perfection.
+
+Entering a meantime _could_ have meant a change of liturgy,
+instituting some outward forms of remembrance and expectation.  But we
+didn't.  Because the stillness still worked, to bring us into a sense
+of God's presence.
+
+Of course, the liturgy does change in some parts of the Quakerism, but
+not until the late 19th century (1875).
+
+How is humanity to wait faithfully?  We're into the 2nd generation of
+Quakers, perhaps not having had the transformative experience
+themselves.
+
+  "I knew I should be undone forever unless I experienced that power
+   that had wrought such a change in my mother and father" [ref?]
+
+Barclay writes a lot about convincement, will come to _everybody_ ==
+Universal Elect.  God will decide when the Day of Visitation will
+come, perhaps not until the hour of death.
+But you may _outlive_ your Day.  And that's an end to it.  This is
+(another kind of c.f. Calvinist) spirituality of anxiety.
+
+Diligence is required.  Already by 1670s and 80s, it takes longer,
+it's not instantaneous, it _is_ transformative, but with less
+certainty and clarity than formerly.  In the 18th c. it's no longer
+in the _image_ of God, but working _under_ God, along side the rest of
+(corrupt) society.  So the hedge goes up around the Quaker community.
+
+The last article of Barclay's Apology is not about Heaven on Earth,
+it's about putting aside fiction, music, entertainment of any kind.
+Plain speech persists, plain dress becomes very strict.
+
+Contradiction between in principle interior emphasis and in practice
+exterior regulation of identity.
+
+Paused 34:59