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changeset 217:e7c612f002e7
BPD into the 18th c. paused 34:59
author | Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> |
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date | Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:51:16 +0100 |
parents | d22798363116 |
children | acb2f8dd65ed |
files | HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt Tue Jul 13 19:15:19 2021 +0100 +++ b/HeavenOnEarth/notes.txt Tue Jul 13 21:51:16 2021 +0100 @@ -868,4 +868,58 @@ 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