... in Britain that developed into the Methodist revival began, we can detect scarcely a suspicion that there still remained great tasks in hand for our race to do, that enormous disturbances were close at hand, or that the path of man through space and time was dark with countless ... fine gentlemen upon the eighteenth-century model, and told how it fell before the Barbarian from without because of the decay through Christianity within. In our history here we have tried to set that story in a better light. To Voltaire official Christianity was "lnfame"; something that limited people's live...

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... and symbols. There was a pilgrim's oath which was taken enforcing again the ideology that the revolt was one of religious purpose: The pilgrim's oath Ye shall not enter into this our pilgrimage for the commonwealth, but only for the love that ye do bear unto Almighty God his faith, and to Holy Church militant and the maintenance thereof; to the preservation ... nobility, and to expulse all villain blood and evil councillors against the commonwealth from his Grace and his Privy council of the same. And that ye shall not enter into our said pilgrimage for no particular profit to yourself,...

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