Tyranipocrit Discovered: Devils, Black and White
By Anonymous
Keep watch!, O Englanders great and small!--Tyranipocrit roams the land! With help from our anonymous author, may we discover his wiles.
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Keep watch!, O Englanders great and small!--Tyranipocrit roams the land! With help from our anonymous author, may we discover his wiles.
Our author pursues historical examples of when the Devil married his daughter, Hypocrisy, to "his great friend Tyranny."
On the extremest margins of radical thought, our author argues that even antinomians subject themselves to the worldly rule of "faith alone."
"Anonymous"--perhaps Leveller William Walwyn--presents a sort of class theory, wherein "white devil" rulers exploit average "black devil" sinners.
Our author considers the marriage of Tyranny and Hypocrisy as a literal event--for us, it is the metaphorical beginning of institutional violence.
Though God may save all souls in the ultimate judgment, hellish history is no divine command: it is the result of freely made human choices.