A History of Britain 09. Revolutions (2 of 29)

A History of Britain

The Scots, the English and the Irish were not about to be reasonable.
They were much too busy being righteous.
Over the next half century, righteousness would kill a lot of the British.
At the end, reason would appear, but not before a lot of tears had been shed.
Tears of rapture and tears of grief.
Not everyone was lying awake at night biting their nails about the plight of kingless Britain.
For many, this was the dawn of a new age.
No one had foreseen this during the civil wars, but in giving them victory, the Almighty had shown them that Albion must be turned into Jerusalem.
He had lain the Stuart kings in the dust.

The only king to follow now was King Jesus, and the only true government that of his saints.
Let them sing aloud, let the high praise of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand!
The kingdom of God was at hand, the most blessed revolution of all.
No one was more convinced of this than Albion's holy warrior - Oliver Cromwell.
Religion was not at first the thing contended for, but God brought it to that issue and at last it proved that which was most dear to us.
Cromwell called himself "a seeker", and what he sought all his life was God's destiny for himself and for his country.
At first, he'd been innocent of the Lord's design.
For years, he'd led the life of an obscure East Anglian country gentleman.