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A66687	The new law of righteousnes budding forth, in restoring the whole creation from the bondage of the curse. Or A glimpse of the new heaven, and new earth, wherein dwels righteousnes. Giving an alarm to silence all that preach or speak from hear-say, or imagination. By Gerrard Winstanley	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3049; ESTC R219016	82,328	133

declare the Lord in a pure language shall bear his shame who soever he be None shall need to turn over books and writings for indeed all these shal cease too to get knowledge but every one shal be taken off from seeking knowledge from without and with an humble quiet heart wait upon the Lord til he manifest himself for he is a great king and worthy to be waited upon His testimony within fils the soul with joy and singing he gives first experience and then power to speak forth those experiences And hence you shal speak to the rejoycing one of another and to the praise of him that declares his power in you he that speaks his thoughts studies and imagination and stands up to be a Teacher of others shal be judged for his unrighteousnesse because he seeks to honour flesh and does not honour the Lord Behold the Anointing that is to teach all things is comming to create new Heavens and new Earth wherein Righteousness dwels and there shal not be a vessel of humane earth but it shal be filled with Christ If you were possible to have so many buckets as would contain the whole Ocean every one is filled with the Ocean and perfect water is in all and being put all together make up the perfect Ocean which filled them all Even so Christ who is the spreading power is now beginning to fil every man and woman with himself he wil dwel and rule in every one and the law of reason equitie shal be Christ in them every single body is a star shining forth of him or rather a body in and out of whom he shines and he is the Ocean of power that fils all And so the words are true the Creation mankinde shal be the fulnesse of him that fils all in all This is the Church the great Congregation that when the mysterie is compleated shal be the mystical body of Christ all set at libertie from inward and outward straits and bondage And this is called the holy breathing that hath made all new by himself and for himself Before this truth be believed in by mankinde you shal see much troubles in the great world the first Adam wil strive mightily before he loose his Kingdom he can pretty quietly hear that Christ will role in sons and daughters that are scattered abroad But to hear that the Kingdoms of the world shal be Christ's Dominions likewise and that the material earth shall be his possession as well as the earth mankind O this cu●s Adam to the heart all the world will storm and be angry when this is made known Wars and rumours of wars will multiply Father will be against Son and Son against Father the love of many shall wax cold and zealous professours that live without the spirit shall become the most bitter enemies to Christ and prove very treacherous self-seeking self-loving ful of subtil policy to waste and wear out every one that seeks to advance Christ by their bitternesse and oppression But all in vain for Christ must rise and the powers of the flesh must fall CHAP. XIII FRom what hath been hitherto spoken if there were no experience to prove it it appears that the first Adam or fleshly man seeks life peace and glory to himself from creatures and things that are without him As first he seeks content and peace from wife children friends riches places of dominion over others and from such like But that peace that is built upon such hay and stubble-foundations will fall and come to nothing Secondly the fleshly man seeks content and peace from Sermons Prayers Studies Books Church-fellowship and from outward Forms and Customs in Divine Worship But that peace that is built upon this foundation of gold silver and pretious stones will fall and come to nothing likewise All creatures teats are to be dried up that the soul can suck no refreshing milk from them before the Lord teach it knowledge Some there are nay almost every one wonders after the Beast or fleshly man they seek for new Jerusalem the City of Sion or Heaven to be above the skies in a locall place wherein there is all glory and the beholding of all excellent beauty like the seeing of a show or a mask before a man And this not to be seen neither by the eies of the body till the body be dead A strange conceit But poor Creatures you are deceived this expectation of glory without you will vanish you shall never see it this outward heaven is not the durable Heaven this is a fancy which your false Teachers put into your heads to please you with while they pick your purses and betray your Christ into the hands of flesh and hold Jacob under to be a servant still to Lord Esau Wel what a man sees or hears to day may be gone to morrow all outward glory that is at a distance from the five senses and taken in by a representation is of a transient nature and so is the Heaven that your Preachers tell you of But when the second Adam rises up in the heart he makes a man to see Heaven within himself and to judge all things that are below him He makes many bodies to be the declarers of him who is the one power of righteousnesse that rules therein And this is Heaven that will not fail us endurable riches treasures that shall not wax old and where moth and rust cannot corrupt nor thieves break through and steal This Christ is within you your everlasting rest and glory And as the man of the flesh fetches in comforts from without seeking content in and from Creatures and Creature-objects so he envies every one that crosses his desires crosse him in his pride covetousnesse and uncleannesse and he grows extream angry at every body tell him that his formall and customary preaching and praying is but self-seeking not setting up the Lord and he is filled with rage against those that tel him so But he never looks within to check himself he takes no remedy there at all and lets those Devils lie quiet within and if any be sent I say from the Lord to disturb those his lusts he will disturb that messenger if he can but he will cherish himself within He thinks that whatsoever he doth is good and that whatsoever crosses that power that is in his heart doth crosse the Lord But truly it is no other but the Serpents power which must be destroyed he fetches in content from the Creatures that are without him and his envy and discontent runs after things and Creatures that are without which crosses his fleshly desires But now the man of righteousnesse Christ when he rises up in the heart he loves all that are without him and he envies none but the Serpent within which troubles the Creation and so is quite different to the other For as soon as Christ is rose up in a man the first thing he doth he takes

there is equity and Reason in it for the King of Righteousnesse did not make some men to be tyrants and others to be slaves at the beginning for this burden riseth up afterwards Esau stepped into the birth-right before Iacob till the time come that he shall be taken away again In the first enterance into the Creation every man had an equall freedom given him of his Maker to till the earth and to have dominion over the beasts of the field the ●owls of heaven and fish in the Seas But this freedom is broke to pieces by the power of covetousnesse and pride and self-love not by the law of Righteousnesse And this freedom will not be restored till the spreading power of Righteousnesse and peace rise up in the earth making all men and women to be of one heart and one mind which must come to passe for that Scripture was never fulfilled yet The powers of flesh shall never partake of this priviledge for he is the curse that must be removed Selfish Councellours Selfish Governours Selfish Souldiers shall never be honoured in setling this restoration The Lord himself will do this great work without either sword or weapon weapons and swords shall destroy and cut the powers of the earth asunder but they shall never build up For the Law-giver in righteousnesse shall come out of Sion that shall turn covetous oppressing ungodliness from Jacob For surely the Father will give as large a liberty to his children to inherit the earth as he gives to the beast of the field though they break over hedges and eat in any pasture they do not imprison and hang one another the earth is a common livelyhood for them the restraint ariseth from selfish covetousnesse and lordly proud flesh that hath got the government and saith The spirit hath given it him Indeed thou hast it for a time not by right of blessing but by permission that through thy unrighteousness thou maist fall and never rise again And that righteous Jacob may arise who hath been thy servant and never fall again and then the elder shall serve the younger I do not speak that any particular men shall go and take their neighbours goods by violence or robbery I abhor it as the condition of the men of the Nations are ready to do in this fleshly setled government of the world but every one is to wait till the Lord Christ do spread himself in multiplicities of bodies making them all of one heart and one mind acting in the righteousnesse one to another It must be one power in all making all to give their consent to confirm this law of righteousnesse and reason For when the work is made manifest it shall be a universall Power that shall rise up in the earth man-kind to pull the Kingdom and outward government of the world out of the hands of the tenant Esau king-flesh and this shall be made manifest in all the Nations of the earth For the Kingdoms of this world shall become the Kingdoms of the Lord Christ And this universall power of a righteous law shall be so plainly writ in every ones heart that none shall desire to have more then another or to be Lord over other or to lay claim to any thing as his this phrase of Mine and Thine shall be swallowed up in the law of righteous actions one to another for they shall all live as brethren every one doing as they would be done by and he that sees his brother in wants and doth not help shall smart for his iniquity from the hand of the Lord the righteous Judge that will fit upon the throne in every mans heart There shall be no need of Lawyers prisons or engines of pun●shment one over another for all shall walk and act righteously in the Creation and there shall be no beggar nor cause of complaining in all this holy Mountain Therefere I say to all wait be patient in your present bondage till our brethren be brought in likewise Forsake the way of Babylon and commit your cause to him that judgeth righteously The work of freedom is in the hand of Christ and he is the righteous freedom he hath begun to spread himself and he goes on mightily and will go on The poor receives the Gospel daily Christ is drawing all men after him he is calling in the Isles and Nations of the world to come to this great Battell even to deliver the oppressed and ●o destroy the oppressour to spoil him that spoiled and yet was never spoiled himself And so to lead captivity captive and let the prisoners of hope go free CHAP. VII WHen this universall law of equity rises up in every man and woman then none shall lay claim to any creature and say This is mine and that is yours This is my work that is yours but every one shall put to their hands to till the earth and bring up cattle and the blesting of the earth shall be common to all when a man hath need of any corn or cattle take from the next store-house he meets with There shall be no buying nor selling no fairs nor markets but the whole earth shall be a common treasury for every man for the earth is the Lords And man-kind thus drawn up to live and act in the Law of love equity and onenesse is but the great house wherein the Lord himself dwels and every particular one a severall mansion and as one spirit of righteousnesse is common to all so the earth and the blessings of the earth shall be common to all for now all is but the Lord and the Lord is all in all When a man hath meat and drink and cloathes he hath enough and all shall cheerfully put to their hands to make these things that are needfull one helping another there shall be none Lords over others but every one shall be a Lord of himself subject to the law of righteousnesse reason and equity which shall dwell and rule in him which is the Lord For now the Lord is one and his name and power one in all and among all Their rejoycings and glory shall be continually in eying and speaking of what breakings forth of love they receive from the Father singing Sions songs one to another to the glory of him that sits upon the throne for evermore This universall freedom hath never filled the earth though it hath been fore-told by most of the Prophets This is the glory of Jerusalem which never yet hath been the praise of the whole earth And this will be no troublesome businesse when covetousnesse and the selfish power is killed and cast out of heaven and every one is made willing to honour the King of Righteousnesse in action being all of one heart and one mind Truly we may well call this a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwells righteousnesse And that prophesie will not generally be fulfilled till this time If it be

for Abraham sprang from him and all Abrahamits are but a tree or vine that did spring from that one seed for indeed the spirit of life lies in the bottom which lifted up both Abraham and his children and is the one seed of righteousnesse and life from which every one springs what name soever any righteous body is called Now this seed doth promise himself to be the blessing of all Nations and the restorer of all things from bondage but the Nations of the earth since that report was made never yet enjoyed the benefit of it for the curse hath still rested upon the Creation and hath been rather multiplied from year to year so that at this very day those in whom the first fruits of restauration appears do see darknesse nay thick darknesse do cover man-kind And the curse doth rest mightily in the fire water earth and air all places stinks with the abomination of the curse So that a man can go into no place but he shall see the curse and enmity is that power that rules the creatures that makes them jar one against another Likewise miserry breaks forth upon man-kind from these four Elements of which his body is made and the curse rests within him and the curse dwels round about him But Abrahams seed is and must be the blessing of all Nations and shall spread as far as the curse hat● spread to take it off And this seed Dear Brethren hath lien hid in you all the time appointed and now is breaking forth And the Nations shall know That salvation or restauration rather is of the Jews that King of righteousnesse and Prince of peace that removes the curse and becomes himself the blessing arises up in you and from you and fils and will fill the earth both man-kind and the whole Creation Fire Water Earth and Air for the blessing shall be every where And though the seed of the flesh have cast you out for evil and you have been the despised ones of the earth and the children of the flesh refuses to buy and sell with you yet now your glory is rising And the ancient prophesie of Zecharie shall be fulfilled That ten men shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew saying Let us go with you for we have heard that God is with you This new Law of righteousnesse and peace which is rising up is David your King which you have been seeking a long time and now shall find him coming again the second time in the personall appearance of sons and daughters he will be a true Davider indeed between flesh and spirit between bondage and libertie between oppressours and the oppressed he is and will be the righteous Judge he will lead your captivitie captive and set you down in peace He is now coming to raign and the Isles and Nations of the earth shall all come in unto him he will rest every where for this blessing will fill all places All parts of the Creation in whom the curse remains shall be shaken and moved and the seed of the flesh shall find peace no where He will throw down the mountaines of the flesh fill up the low valleys of the spirit he will make rough wayes smooth and crooked wayes strait he will make the earth fruitfull and the winds and the weather seasonable he will throw all the powers of the earth at your feet and himself will be your governour and teacher and your habitations on earth shall be in peace that so you that are the Citie of the Lord New Jerusalem the place of his rest may be the praise of the whole earth If any one say The glory of Jerusalem is to be seen hereafter after the ●ody is laid in the dust it matters not to me what they say they speak their imagination they know not what I know that the glory of the Lord shall be seen and known within the Creation and the blessing shall spread in all Nations and Jerusalem indeed which is Abrahams children sprituall Israel gathered together shall be the praise and glory of the whole earth and the restauration of all things is to be seen within the Creation of Fire Water Earth and Air And all bodies that are made of the compound of these four Elements are to be purged and delivered from the curse and all shall know that this almighty King of righteousnesse is our Saviour and besides hi●● there is none The swords and counsels of flesh shall not be seen in this work the arm of the Lord onely shall bring these mighty things to passe in this day of his power and the hearts of men shall tremble and fail them with fear to see the misery that is coming upon the world for the glory and riches of men shall be brought low and the Lord alone shall be exalted Therefore all that I shall say is this Though the world even the seed of the flesh despise you and call you by reprochfull names at their pleasure yet wait patiently upon your King he is coming he is rising the Son is up and his glory will fill the earth And when you see the Doves flock to the windows not to your Church-windows but to the teachings of the Father for his discoveries are the windows that lets the light of the Father shine into the soul and these are dreams voices and revelations immediatly from the Father himself his own inward teaching without which the soul is hungry and flocks unto the inward discoveries and teaching of the Father for satisfaction forsaking all other in point of inward rest When you see or hear of the risings up of Israel like the noise of mighty waters carrying all before them then rejoyce and say Your redemption draws near and the reports from the Lord are true wait with a meek and quiet spirit for the consolation of Israel even the coming forth of the deliverer That shall turn ungodlinesse from Jacob Then shall Jacob rejoyce and Israel shall be glad So I rest January 26. 1648. A waiter for the consolation of Israel JERRARD WINSTANLEY The New Law OF RIGHTEOVSNES Budding forth to restore the whole Creation from bondage of the curse CHAP. I. THere is nothing more sweet and satisfactory to a man then this to know and feel that spirituall power of righteousnesse to rule in him which he cals God For while the flesh through hasty and violent lusts doth rebell against the spirit it hath no true peace but is still pulling misery upon himself But when the created flesh is made subject to the law of righteousnesse and walks uprightly in the Creation in the light of that spirit then it lies down in rest In other writings I have declared what I know That Almighty power ever living Spirit is which rules and preserves the whole Creation fire water earth and air and of every creature in these elements or that is made up of all these in a compound matter as all flesh is And something I shall