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Tauler, whom an admiring contemporary once called 'the holiest of God's children now living on the earth, could yet say of the higher elevation of the Christian life that, 'where this comes to pass, outward works become of no moment. What wonder that the fanatical Beghards, or Brethren of the Free Spirit, against whom he contended with all his energies, should seek to confuse his principles with theirs, and assert that, having attained the higher state, they were not under subjection to moral commandments?
This name, from the opprobrious sense in which it is generally used, is now thought to be derived from the Beghards, a mediaeval sect whose vagaries drew down upon it frequent persecution; but Slechta traces it to a foreign vagabond who came from Picardy in 1422 and infected with his pestilent doctrines the army of John Ziska, the Taborite, an army of those that were in distress, in debt, in discontent.
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