ABSTRACT
Gerrard Winstanley subsequently joined a group led by George Fox, and his book The Saints' Paradise showed how far he had come within their orbit. Indeed, Comber, the Dean of Durham, in his book Christianity No Enthusiasm (1678) contended that Winstanley and his Diggers were the real founders of Fox's group, for like the Philadelphians, they were irradiated with Behmenist thought. Richard Baxter, the shrewd recorder of those days, regarded them as ‘proper Fanatics, looking too much to Revelation within, instead of the Holy Scripture’. 28 ‘All along through most ages these Hereticks have sped, even down to the David-Georgians, Weigellans, Familists, and the like of late.’
