Abiezer Coppe and the Ranters

What is it about?

This chapter highlights the fruits of relatively new research by identifying the Ranters, exploring their origins, examining how they were seen by contemporaries, accounting for their activities, discussing their beliefs, assessing their possible sources, and reviewing the ways in which their texts were expressed and suppressed.

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Why is it important?

The term Ranter should be used cautiously to indicate hostile yet shifting contemporary attitudes towards individuals who normally knew each other (usually through conventicles, Baptist congregations or as members of spiritual communities); believed themselves to have been liberated from, or passed beyond, the outward observance of gospel ordinances; maintained that all things sprang from God and that God was in all living things ...