here add to the rest which I only hold â—orth to my fellow creature man not customarily to make a trade of it for fleshly ends but occasionally as the Light is pleased to manifest himself in me that others from me and I from them may be witnesses each to other of our Maker how he shines forth in his own light through each other to the profit of the Creation In the beginning of time the whole Creation lived in man and man lived in his Maker the spirit of Righteousnesse and peace for every creature walked evenly with man and delighted in man and was ruled by him there was no opposition between him and the beast sowls fishes or any creature in the earth so that it is truely said The whole Creation was in man one within and walked even with him for no creature appeared to be a visible enemy to him for every creature gave forth it self either for pleasure or profit of man who was Lord of all And man lived in his Maker the Spirit and delighted in no other there was an evennes between man and all creatures and an evennesse between man and his Maker the Lord the Spirit But when man began to â—all out of his Maker and to leave his joy and rest which he had in the spirit of Righteousnesse and sought content from creatures and outward objects then he lost his dominion and the creature fell out of him and became enemies and apposers of him and then rise up mountaines and valleys and hils and all unevennesse both in mans heart and in mans actions And as the man is become selfish so are all the beasts and creatures become selfish and man and beast act like each other by pushing with their horns of power and devouring one another to preserve self And truly as man might see all creatures lived at rest in him in the beginning so he may see all creatures in him now but in a rest-lesse condition groaning under bondage waiting for a restauration The covetousnesse the subtilty the cruelty the pride the envy the devouring power that is in the flesh of man are the very distempers that are in such and such beasts and fowls So that while man is ruled by such powers and declares no other actions but what is in the beast he indeed goes in the shape of a man but properly he is a beast of such and such a ravenous principle And this now is the Curse Man is gone out of his Maker to live upon objects and the creatures are gone out of man to seek delight in pushing and devouring one another and the whole Creation of fire and water earth and air and all bodies made of these are put out of order through mans rejecting the Spirit to live upon objects But now the time is come that the Spirit will draw all things into man againe to live and be at rest in him as their Governour as their Lord and man and the Creation shall become even againe and so man returning to his Maker to rest in peace in none but him The whole Creation shall be governed preserved comforted by the one spirit the King of Righteousnesse and all bondage curse and tears shall be done away And this is that I wait for being assured it shall be accomplished having received a taste But as the state of the world is in the generality I am made to see That in times past and times present the branches of man-kind have acted like the beast or swine And though they have called one another men and women yet they have been but the shadows of men and women As the Moone is the shadow of the Sun in regard they have been led by the powers of the curse in flesh which is the Feminine part not by the power of the righteous Spirit which is Christ the Masculine power But when they come to see the spirituall Light that is in every ceature and in that power and light do walk righteously towards other creatures as well beasts as man-kinde that the creation as much as in them lies one by one may be upheld and preserved in its glory then they begin to appear and act like men and rise up from the low earth of a beastly and swinish nature to acknowledge and honour their Maker in the light of himself Experience shews us That every beast doth act in oppression and cruelty towards such creatures as he can master at advantage And thus doth the flesh of man which is the King of beast For when the wisdome and power of the flesh raigns which in deed is Adam that man that appeared first to rule the earth man-kinde and by his unrighteousnesse makes it a land of barrennesse For this first Adam is such a selfish power that he seeks to compasse all the creatures of the earth into his own covetous hands to make himself a lord and all other his slaves And though he gets lands moneys honours government into his hands yet he gives the King of righteousnesse but a company of sawning words of love and obedience for he makes unrighteousnesse to dwell in heaven and earth that is in the whole Creation by his unrighteous government and so he becomes the chief Rebell the Serpent the Devil the Murderer oppressing the Creation setting himself above all in tyranny And this power is the curse which the whole Creation groans under waiting for a restoration by Christ the King and law of rigteousnesse who is the restorer of all things And here first I shall declare what Adam the first man is who to me appears to be the wisdome and power of the flesh carrying along the Creation man to live upon creature objects and to loath and despise the Spirit that made all and that dwels in all things according to the capacity of every single creature and all that Adam doth is to advance himself to be The one power he gets riches and goverment into his hands that he may lift up himself and suppresse the universall liberty which is Christ And if he preach or pray or performe any service relating to the Spirit it is for this end that he may get peace thereby and so seeks to honour flesh by procuring his own peace by his own wit and pollicy if that would doe So that this Adam appears first in every man and woman but he sits down in the chair of Magistracy in some above others for though this climbing power of self-love be in all yet it rises not to its height in all but every one that gets an authority into his hands tyrannizes over others as many husbands parents masters magistrates that lives after the flesh doe carry themselves like oppressing Lords over such as are under them not knowing that their wives children servants subjects are their fellow creatures and hath an equall priviledge to share with them in the blessing of liberty And this first Adam is to be seen and known in a
peace and secret joy And since that time those words have been like very fruitfull seed that have brough forth increase in my heart which I am much prest in spirit in declare all abroad The poor people by their labours in this time of the first Adams government have made the buyers and sellers of land or rich men to become tytants and oppressours over them But in the time of Israels restoration now begining when the King of Righteousnesse himself shall be Governor in every man none then shall work for hire neither shal any give hire but every one 〈◊〉 work in love one with and for another and eat bread together as being members of one houshold the Creation in whom Reason rules King in perfect glory He that cals any part of the Creation his own in particular in this time of Israels return from the mistery of Aegyptian bondage is a destroyer of the Creation a lifter up of the proud covetous flesh againe a bringer in of the curse againe and a mortal enemy to the Spirit For upon Israels returne from captivity the Lord himself wil burn up the curse and restore the Creation fire water earth and air from that slavery and make the earth to be a common treasury to them all for they are but one house of Israel still though twelve Tribes And they have but one King one Law-giver one teacher amongst them all even the Lord himself who is Reason The King of Righteousnesse they are all filled with one spirit and they shall all live comfortably upon one earth and so the whole earth is the Lords And this is the inward and outward liberty which the Lord wil give to Sion And this work is begun the foundation of this spiritual building is laid and the spreading of this one spirit in every sonne and daughter and the lifting up the earth to be a common treasury wil make Jerusalem a praise in the whole earth and the glory of the earth indeed and so the Father of all things shall be honoured in the works of his own hands No man shal have any more land then he can labour himself or have others to labour with him in love working together and eating bread together as one of the Tribes of families of Israel neither giving hire not taking hire He that is now a possessour of lands and riches and cannot labour if he say to others you are may fellow creatures and the Lord is now making the earth common amongst us therefore take my land only let me eat bread with you that man shall be preserved by the lobours of others But it any man have Land and neither can work nor wil work but wil strive to rule as a tyrant burdening the Creation the hand of the Lord shall fal upon him either to destruction or torment and if his life be given for a prey he shall be made to work and eat his bread with the sweat of his own brows not of others til he know himself to be a member not a lord over the Creation and thus he shall be dealt with that hath lost the benefit of Sonship All the punishment that any one shall receive for any unrighteous act whereby he begins to bring the cause againe upon the Creation he sahll only be made a Gibeonite to work in the earth not in a prison and the eyes of all shall be upon him and the greatset offence will be this for any to endeavour to raise up some few to rule over others so to set up particular interest againe and to bring in buying and selling of land againe the sore displeasure of the Lord shall be such a peoples portion Israel is not to imprison or torment and by death or smaller punishments but only to cause them to work and eat their own bread for he or they that inflicts any other punishment upon fellow creatures is an unrighteous actour in the Creation and shall himself be made a servant to all till he by the spirit in him is made to know himself to be equal to every man not a Lord over any for all men looked upon in the bulk are but the Creation the living earth This imprisoning punishing and killing which is the practice of the first Adam ye visible to the world is the curse And it is a mighty dishonour to our maker that one part of the Creation should destroy another it was not so from the beginning but it is an honour to our maker that every part of the Creation should lend a mutual help of love in action to preserve the whole But is not this the old rule He that sheds man◠bloud by man shall his bloud be shed I answer It is true but not as usually it is observed for first know That the Spirit is the man who hath determined to suffer himself to be killed and lie dead in the streets or under the several forms of Babylon government three daies or times and a half The serpent is he or the wicked man that kils the man of Righteousnesse or sheds his bloud for that space of time which is indeed the wisdome and power of the flesh killing the wisdom and power of the Spirit and ruling in the Spirits own house the heart for a time Therefore now it is declared that the Serpent or beastly power of flesh that kils the Spirit shall himself be killed by the Spirit when the Spirit begins to rise and I can tell you that the resurrection is begun for all the great fightings is between flesh and Spirit The seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head It is not for one creature called man to kill another for this is abominable to the Spirit and it is the curse which hath made the Creation to groan under bondage for if I kill you I am a murderrer if a third come and hang or kill me for murdering you he is a murderer of me and so by the government of the first Adam murder hath been called Justice when it is but the curse Besides none can call himself a man till the man Christ or Spirit rule in him for til then the greatest Lord of all is but a Beast and one Beast kils another for a man wil never kill a man therefore said the man Christ Jesus I came not to destroy but to save therefore such as kill are farr from being Saints or children of Christ for they are the children of the Serpent whose delight and work is to kill the man-child but he that sheds this mans blouds by the same man shall his bloud be shed in the resurrection Therefore O thou proud flesh that dares hang and kil thy fellow creatures that is equall to thee in the Creation Know this that none hath the power of life and death but the Spirit and al punishmens that are to be inflicted amongst creatures called men are only such as to make
the offender to know his maker and to live in the community of the righteous Law of love one with another For talking of love is no love it is acting of love in righteousnesse which the Spirit Reason our Father delights in And this is to relieve the oppressed to let goe the prisoner to open bags and barns that the earth may be a common treasury to preserve all without complainings for uhe earth was not made for a few to live at ease upon and to kil such as did not observe the Law of their own making but it was made for all to live comfortably upon and the power of life and death is reserved in the hand of the Spirit not in the hand of flesh None ought to kil but such as can make alive therefore let every one walk righteously in the Creation and trust the Spirit for protection He that makes a zealous profession of the Spirit as all professours doe and yet doth not act this universall power of Righteousnesse in labouring the earth for a common treasury is a meer self-lover and he professes but himself and is a complementing enemy to Reason the King of Righteousnesse and if stil thou saist it is the Spirit whom thou doest worship then make it manifest to the world what spirit this is that rules every where besids Reason And futher he that denies this community denies the Scriptures Likewise whether the Preachers prosessours or rich men that upholds this unrighteous power of particular propriety Therefore you dust of the earth that are trod under foot you poor people that makes both schollars and rich men your oppressours by your labours Take notice of your priviledge the Law of Righteousnesse is now declared If you labour the earth and work for others that lives at ease and follows the waies of the flesh by your labours eating the bread which you get by the sweat of your brows not their own Know this that the hand of the Lord shal break out upon every such hireling labourer and you shal perish with the covetous rich men that have held and yet doth hold the Creation under the bondage of the curse This voice of the Lord work together and eat bread together doth advance the law of Reason and Righteousnesse the rising of this is the fall of mistical Babylon the oppressing flesh the living in the practice of this Laâ—v of love declares the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles to be a true declaration of the Spirit and no lie He that denies the practice of this lives in a continual denial of those Scriptures Therefore your selfish tyth-taking Preachers and all others that preaches for hire with all covetous professours take notice that you are the Judahs that betraid Christ and the Pharisees that put him to death and you stil persue the murder by standing up to hinder Christ from rising and coming in sons and daughters his second time in flesh I have now obeyed the command of the Spirit that bid me declare this all abroad I have declared it and I wil declare it by word of mouth I have now declared it by my pen And when the Lord doth shew unto me the place and manner how he wil have us that are called common-people to manure and work upon the common Lands I wil then go forth and declare it in my action to eat my bread with the sweat of my brows without either giving or taking hire looking upon the Land as freely mine as anothers I have now peace in the Spirit and I have an inward perswasion that the spirit of the poor shal be drawn forth ere long to act materially this Law of Righteousnesse If man-kinde knew their liberty which their Creatour Reason hath given us none would be offended at this new Law that is to be writ in every mans heart and acted by every mans hand They that submit in love and offers what they have freely to further this work shal prosper and finde peace for they honour our Maker by lifting up the Creation in Righteousnesse They that wil not submit freely the hand of the Lord shal be as sure upon them as it was upon Pharaoh who is their type O you great Adams of the earth that cals the earth yours and looks upon others as servants and slaves to you as if the earth were made only for you to live at ease and honour upon it while others starved for want of bread at your feet and under your oppressing government Behold the King the Lord of Hosts hath sent his servants to bid you let Israel goe free that they may serve him together in community off spirit and in community of the earthly treasure Be not you more proud and hard hearted then Pharaoh your type if you be as it is like you wil for the anti-type oft times is more powerfull then the type then assure your selves plagues shal multyply and Israel shal be pulled from under your burdens with a strong hand and stretched out arm and you and all your company shal perish together The Lord hath spoke it and he will doe it All the men and women in England are al children of this Land and the earth is the Lords not particular mens that claims a proper interest in it above others which is the devils power But be it so that some wil say This is my Land and cal such and such a parcel of Land his own interest Then saith the Lord let such an one labour that parcel of Land by his own hands none helping him for whosoever shal help that man to labour his proper earth as he cals it for wages the hand of the Lord shal be upon such labourers for they lift up flesh above the spirit by their labours and so hold the Creation stil under bondage Therefore if the rich wil stil hold fast this propriety of Mine and thine let them labour their own Land with their own hands And let the common-People that are the gatherings together of Israel from under that bondage and that say the earth is ours not mine let them labour together and eat bread together upon the Commons Mountains and Hils For as the inclosures are called such a mans Land and such a mans Land so the Commons and Heath are called the common-peoples and let the world see who labours the earth in righteousnesse and those to whom the Lord gives the blessing let them be the people that shal inherit the earth Whether they that hold a civil propriety saying This is mine which is selfish devilish and destructive to the Creation or those that hold a common right saying The earth is ours which lifts up the Creation from bondage Was the earth made for to preserve a few covetous proud men to live at ease and for them to bag and barn up the treasures of the earth from others that they might beg or starve in a fruitful Land or was it made to preserve all her children Let
said the voyce of the spirit in me guiding my eie to the powers of the earth three times Let Israel go free Let Israel go free Let Israel go free Work all together Eat bread altogether Whosoever labours the earth for any one that wil be a burdning Ruler over others and does not look upon himself as equal to others in the Creation the hand of the Lord shal be upon that labourer I the Lord have spoken it and I wil doe it Declare this all abroad Israel shal neither give hire nor take hire Surely this is both ful of reason and equity for the earth was not made for some but for al to live comfortably upon the fruits of it And there cannot be a universal libertie til this universal communitie be established All tears occasioned through bondage cannot be wiped away til the earth become in use to all a common Treasurie And then Jerusalem wil become a praise to the whole earth and not til then At this time the barren land shal be made fruitfull for the Lord wil take off the curse And if any grumble and say The Heaths and Commons are barren and the like and so draw against the work All that I say let them go their way their portion is not here they live in the low flesh not in the height of the spirit And they know not the mysterie of the Lord who is now restoring Israel from bondage and fetching them out of all lands where they were scattered into one place where they shal live and feed together in peace And then there shal be no more pricking briar in all the holy Mountain This shal be the glory of all they shal lie down in rest This is the Branch This is Israel This is Christ spread in sons and daughters This is Jerusalem the glory of the whole earth Where then will be the railing persecuting Priest or the Tyrant Professour that sucks after the bloâ—d and miserie of those that wil not joyn 〈…〉 his forms But indeed as yet as the state of the world is while the first Adam yet sits in the Chair and corrupts the Creation by his unrighteous wisdome and power I say at this time the feirce wrath of the King of Righteousnesse is threatned over this Land called England and indeed over all the whole earth where particular interest bears rule and enslaves the Creation And if covetous proud flesh stil uphold this self-propriety which is the curse and burden which the Creation groans under Then O thou covetous earth expect the multyplying of plagues and the fulfilling of all threatning prophesies and visions for thy downfal in miserie But if thou wouldst find mercie then open thy barns and treasuries of the earth which thou hast heaped together and detains from the poor thy fellow creatures This is the only remedy to escape wrath and the door of acceptance to mercie is yet open if thou do this The Judge of Truth and Right waits yet upon thy comming into him Therefore O thou first Adam take notice that the Lord hath set before thee life and death now chuse whether thou wilt for the time is near at hand that buying and selling of land shall cease and every son of the land shal live of it Divide England into three parts scarce one part is manured So that here is land enough to maintain all her children and many die for want or live under a heavy burden of povertie all their daies And this miserie the poor people have brought upon themselves by lifting up particular interest by their labours There are yet three doors of hope for England to escape destroying plagues First let every one leave off running after others for knowledge and comfort and wait upon the spirit Reason til he break forth out of the Clouds of your heart and manifest himself within you This is to cast off the shadow of Learning and to reject covetous subtile proud flesh that deceives all the world by their hearsay and traditional preaching of words letters and sillables without the spirit And to make choyce of the Lord the true Teacher of every one in their own inward experience The mysterie of the spirit and the mystrie of Babylon Secondly Let every one open his bags and barns that al may feed upon the crops of the earth that the burden of povertie may be removed Leave of this buying and selling of Land or of the fruits of the earth and as it was in the light of Reason first made so let it be in action amongst all a common Treasurie none inclosing or hedging in any part of earth saying this is mine which is rebellion and high treason against the King of Righteousnesse And let this word of the Lord be acted amongst all work together eat bread together Thirdly Leave off dominion and Lordship one over another for the whole bulk of man-kinde are but one living earth Leave off imprisoning whiping and killing which are but the actings of the curse And let those that hitherto have had no Land and have been forced to rob and steal through povertie hearafter let them quietly enjoy Land to work upon that every one may enjoy the benefit of his Creation and eat his own bread with the sweat of his own brows For surely this particular propriety of mine and thine hath brought in all miserie upon people For first it hath occasioned people to steal one from another Secondly it hath made Laws to hang those that did steal It tempts people to doe an evil action and then kils them or doing of it Let all judge if this be not a great devil Well If every one would speedily set about the doing of these three particulars I have mentioned the Creation would thereby be lift up out of bondage and our Maker would have the glory of the works of his own hands They that offer themselves and what treasure they have freely to further this work shal find mercy and the blessing of all Nations shal be his Comfortor They that hinder this common interest of earthly community and wil keep up the tyrannical government of old Adam stil the hand of the Lord shal be upon that person whosoever he be Thus saith the Lord to all the great ones that are cloathed with objects and are lifted up flesh with honours in the government of the world Let Israel go quietly out of your bondage that they may serve me If you wil not let him go I wil not come with 10 plagues as upon Egyptian Pharoah of old but I wil multiply my plagues upon thee thou stout-hearted Pharoah that makes shew of love to me and yet all is but like Jehu to lift up thy self over the remnant in the Land Adam is the commer in of bondage and is the curse that hath taken hold of the Creation And he may wel be called A-dam for indeed he does dam and stop up the streams of the waters of life and
Reason and the Prophets and Apostles writings be Judge the earth is the Lords it is not to be confined to particular interest None can say Their right is taken from them for let the rich work alone by themselves and let the poor work together by themselves the rich in their inclosures saying This is mnie The poor upon their Commons saying This is ours the earth and fruits are common And who can be offended at the poor for doing this None but covetous proud lazy pamper'd flesh that would have the poor stil to work for that devil particular interest to maintain his greatnesse that he may live at ease What doe we get by our labour in the earth but that we may eat bread and live together in love and community of righteousnesse This shall be the blessing of Israel But as Esau hath setled his Kingdome they that work live in straits They that live idle surfet with fulnesse and makes all places stink with unrighteous envious oppression Wel when the Lord cals forth Israel to live in tents which I believe wil be within a short time he wil protect them This Trumpet is stil sounding in me Work together Eat bread together declare this all abroad Suerly the Lord hath not revealed this in vain for I shal see the fruit of righteousnesse follow after it which wil be the beginning of the great day of veangence to the Oppessour that hath held the earth under the bondage of civil propriety ruling a Tyrant over others forcing the poor to work for hire But in the day of restoration of Israel is not to eat the bread of a hireling in no kind he is neither to give hire nor take hire Did the light of Reason make the earth for some men to ingrosse up into bags and barns that others might be opprest with poverty Did the light of Reason make this law that if one man have not such abundance of the earth as to give to others he borrowed of that he that did lend should imprison the other and starve his body in a close room Did the light of Reason make this law that some part of man-kinde should kil and hang another part of man-kinde that could not walk in their steps Surely Reason was not the God chat made that law for this is to make one part of the Creation alwaies to be quarrelling against another part which is mighty dishonour to our Maker But covetousnesse that murdering God of the world was that Law-maker And that is the God or ruling power which all men that claim a particular interest in the earth do worship For the Earth is the Lords that is the spreading power of righteousnes not the Inheritance of covetous proud flesh that dies If any man can say that he makes Corn or Cattle he may say That is mine But if the Lord make these for the use of his Creation suerly then the earth was made by the Lord to be a common Treasury for all not a particular Treasury for some If any man can say he can give life then he hath power to take away life But if the power of life and death be only in the hand of the Lord then surely he is a murderer of the Creation that takes away the life of his fellow Creature man by any law whatsoever For all laws that are made by any man to take away the life of man is the upholder of the curse But what if some steal or whore or become idle and wil not work but live upon others labours as rich men do that cal the land theirs I answer If any manifest such a Achanish or Serpents power as to endeavour to bring in the curse againe upon the Creation he shal not be imprisoned hanged or killed for that is the worke of the Midianites to kil one another to preserve themselves and self-interest But the punishment of such shal be this he shal be set to work and have land oppointed him to work upon and none shal help him he shal have a mark set upon him al this time that every ones eie may be upon him as upon a fool in Israel he shal be a servant to every one til such time as the spirit in him make him know himself to be equal to others in the Creation If any do steal what wil they do with it None shal buy or sel and al the while that every one shal have meat and drink and cloaths what need have they to steal Their stealing shal get them nothing but to lose the benefit of Sonship And that is to be set alone to eat his own bread none having communion with him For every one shal know the Law and every one shal obey the Law for it shal be writ in every ones heart and every one that is subject to Reasons law shal enjoy the benefit of Sonship And that is in respect of outward community to work together and eat bread together and by so doing lift up the creation from the bondage of self interest or particular propriety of mine and thine which is the Devil and Satan even the God of this world that hath blinded the eies of covetous proud flesh and hath bound them up in chains of darknesse The universal spirit of righteousnesse hath been slain by covetous proud flesh this 1649 years ago But now that spirit begins to arise againe from the dead and the same Beast seeks to hinder his rising or else watches to kil the Manchild after he is brought forth Covetous proud flesh wil kil a Tyrant but hold fast the same Tyrannie and slaverie over others in his own hand he wil kil the Traitor but liks wel the Treason when he may be honoured or lifted up by it Look upon the mountaines and little hils of the earth and see if these prickling thorns and briars the bitter curse does not grow there Truly Tyrannie is Tyrannie in one as wel as in another in a poor man lifted up by his valour as in a rich man lifted up by his lands And where Tyrannie sits he is an enemy to Christ the spreading spirit of righteousnesse He wil use the bare name Christ that he may the more secretly persecute and kil his power Tyrannie is a subtile proud and envious Beast his nature is selfish and ful of murder he promises fair things for the publique but all must be made to center within self or self interest not the universal libertie Wel to be short Let every one know if they wait upon their Maker they wil know That the universal power of righteous Communitie as I have declared is Canaan the land of rest and libertie which flows with milk and honey with abundance of joy and peace in our Maker and one in another But the condition of the world that upholds civill interests of mine and thine Is Egypt the house of bondage and truly Pharoahs task-masters are very many both Teachers and Rulers Therefore thus