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By Andrew Sharp

The levellers have been an important component to a substantially democratic flow that got here jointly in the course of the English civil wars. a lot leveller task happened in print and their texts now shape a tremendous a part of the liberal and social democratic canon. This variation includes an advent by means of the editor that units the leveller principles of their context and, including a chronology and brief biographies of the best figures, is vital studying for college kids of the English civil wars and the heritage of political idea.

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6 To discover the several policies the presbyters have used to get into the chair they have jostled the bishops out of, whose example they have followed in many particulars, as especially in the politic and gradual obtaining the Ordinance for Licensing7 upon a pretence of stopping the king's writings, but intentionally obtained and violently made use of against the Independents, Separation, and commonwealthsmen, who either see more than, or something contrary to the designs of the licenser. To signify to the people how the presbyters have laboured to twist their interest with the parliament's, as the bishops did theirs with the king, how daily and burdensomely importunate they are with the parliament to establish their government (which they are pleased to call Christ's)8 and back it with authority and a compulsive power (which by that very particular appears not to be His).

Have we not a touchstone of truth: the good word of God? ' I shall easily concur with them thus far: that the word of God is the touchstone that all opinions are to be examined by that and that the best is to be held fast. But now 'who shall be the examiners'? must needs be the question. If the presbyter examine the Independent and Separation they are like to find the same censure the presbyters have already found (being examined by the bishops) and the bishops found from the pope. Adversaries certainly are not competent judges.

But to the assertion that it will be impiety to grant it to all sectaries, I answer that the word 'sectary' is communicable both to presbyters and Independents, whether it be taken in the good sense for the followers of Christ - for such, all presbyters, Independents, Brownists,32 Anabaptists and all else suppose and profess themselves to be - or, in the common sense, for followers of some few men more eminent in their parts and abilities than others. And hereof the Independents and presbyters are as guilty as the separation, and so are as well sectaries.

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