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Fifth monarchy

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a universal monarchy, supposed to be the subject of prophecy in Daniel ii.; the four preceding monarchies being Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman. See Fifth Monarchy men, under Fifth.

See also: Monarchy



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Dismissing the Royalists, Parliamentary forces ('Roundheads') under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell, the Fifth Monarchy Men who wanted government placed in the hands of a returned Jesus Christ, and even the Levellers who wanted a 'level' parliament based on private property, the True Levellers or Diggers pushed for the abolition or 'levelling' of private property itself.
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Similarly, the readers of the apocalyptic novels so much in vogue today are descendants of sects like the Fifth Monarchy Men, a seventeenth-century group that favored a hallucinatory reading of Scripture.
Religion booknotes by Cunningham, Lawrence S. / Commonweal
 
 
 
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