This Giles Calvert was
the printer and publisher of nearly all Winstanley's pamphlets, and also
one of the first authorised printers and publishers for the Children of
Light, as the Quakers, or Society of Friends, originally styled
themselves. We have reason to believe that Calvert, as well as many
other of Winstanley's disciples, joined the Quakers about the time of
the republication of this pamphlet.
[18:1] "There is no other flame in which the sinner is plagued, and no
other punishment of hell, than the perpetual anguish of mind which
accompanies habitual sin."--Erasmus, _Enchiridion_. Quoted by Beard.
[18:2] See _Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation_,
by Karl Kautsky, more especially p. 79.
[19:1] Green's _Short History of the English People_, p. 457.
[21:1] _History of Civilisation in England_, vol. i. p. 340.
[21:2] _Ibid._ vol. i. p. 351.
CHAPTER III
THE GREAT CIVIL WAR
"The lawful power of making laws to command whole politic societies
of men, belongeth so properly to the same entire societies, that
for any prince or potentate of what kind soever upon earth, to
exercise the same of himself, and not either by express commission
immediately and personally received from God, or else by authority
derived at the first from their consent, upon whose persons they
impose laws, it is no better than mere tyranny. Laws they are not
therefore which public approbation hath not made so.
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