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thorough-going condemnations
Jan. 18th, 2005 12:39 amAm assembling plan re possible trip up to Leeds this weekend; need to determine whether I can get Friday off work, whether house-viewing is feasible on Saturday, etc. The fact of nearly having a concrete plan is simultaneously nervewracking and comforting. ;)
Regular meeting tomorrow. Sigh. You know, there was a time when videoconferencing was new and cool. It wears off fast.
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. . . consider into the commission of what crimes, impieties, wickednesses, and unheard of villainies, we have been led, cheated, cozened, and betrayed, by that grand impostor, that loathsome hypocrite, that detestable traitor, that prodigy of nature, that opprobrium of mankind, that landscape of iniquity, that sink of sin, and that compendium of baseness, who now calls himself our Protector. What have we done, nay, what have we not done, which either hellish policy was able to contrive, or brutish power to execute? We have trampled underfoot all authorities; we have laid violent hands upon our own Sovereign; we have ravished our Parliaments; we have deflowered the virgin liberty of our nation; we have put a yoke, a heavy yoke of iron, upon the necks of our own countrymen; we have thrown down the walls and bulwarks of the people's safety; we have broken often repeated oaths, vows, engagements, covenants, protestations; we have betrayed our trusts; we have violated our faiths; we have lifted up our hands to heaven deceitfully; and that our sins might want no aggravation to make them exceeding sinful, we hve added hypocrisy to them all; and . . . like the audacious strumpet, wiped our mouths, and boasted that we have done no evil . . .
Anabaptist address to Charles II, attacking Cromwell shortly before his death
Regular meeting tomorrow. Sigh. You know, there was a time when videoconferencing was new and cool. It wears off fast.
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. . . consider into the commission of what crimes, impieties, wickednesses, and unheard of villainies, we have been led, cheated, cozened, and betrayed, by that grand impostor, that loathsome hypocrite, that detestable traitor, that prodigy of nature, that opprobrium of mankind, that landscape of iniquity, that sink of sin, and that compendium of baseness, who now calls himself our Protector. What have we done, nay, what have we not done, which either hellish policy was able to contrive, or brutish power to execute? We have trampled underfoot all authorities; we have laid violent hands upon our own Sovereign; we have ravished our Parliaments; we have deflowered the virgin liberty of our nation; we have put a yoke, a heavy yoke of iron, upon the necks of our own countrymen; we have thrown down the walls and bulwarks of the people's safety; we have broken often repeated oaths, vows, engagements, covenants, protestations; we have betrayed our trusts; we have violated our faiths; we have lifted up our hands to heaven deceitfully; and that our sins might want no aggravation to make them exceeding sinful, we hve added hypocrisy to them all; and . . . like the audacious strumpet, wiped our mouths, and boasted that we have done no evil . . .
Anabaptist address to Charles II, attacking Cromwell shortly before his death
