He was the most outspoken and notorious of the loose collection of radical Protestants known as the Ranters.
However, this seems not to be true of his heir, Thomas, who gave specific directions to be buried without ceremony - a provision typical of radical Protestants.
During the Iconoclast Fury of 1566, radical Protestants destroyed images in Catholic churches and monasteries.
This is evidenced by the fact that Henry VIII persecuted the radical Protestants who "threatened" his church during his reign.
Spinoza also corresponded with Peter Serrarius, a radical Protestant and millennarian merchant.
That began in the late 16th century, when radical Protestants removed Christ's body from the cross.
Rogers was also against radical Protestants.
To radical Protestants it seems that the distinction between Creator and creature (however holy) is imperilled: that Polytheism is risen again.
He desired freedom of religion, and he also needed the support of the less radical Protestants and Catholics to reach his political goals.
Despite their professed commitment to Scripture as the sole basis of the Christian life, radical Protestants have always policed themselves even more strictly than the Bible prescribes.