Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]
… Church of England’s doctrine that miracles had ceased and reducing the royal mystique of the King’s touch, influenced public opinion towards the most famous miracle healer of the age, King Charles II himself . Greatrakes’s encroaching on … his followers, but virtually with no exception 9 from the influential personalities of the time (Royalists as well as Republicans) was particularly relevant . 4 . Joseph Glanvill, A Blow at Modern Sadducism (London: Printed by E. C. for … 36). These crowds were made up by those individuals who had failed to ensure their security and freedom (including Republicans and Quakers) and were looking for new ways to protect themselves within the Restoration restrictive system. …
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