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A66684	Fire in the bush The spirit bvrning, not consuming but purging mankinde, or, The great battell of God Almighty between Michaell, the seed of life, and the great red dragon, the curse fought within the spirit of man : with severall other declarations and testimonies of the power of life / by Jerrard Winstanly.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1650 (1650)	Wing W3043_pt1; Thomason C124h1[1]; ESTC R12363	42,316	91

and universall Love above others doth it tie the Creation together in the unity of s●i●it and band of peace we cannot say it doth or if any say it doth then I 'le answer What meanes then the lowing of the Oxen and bleating of the Sheep what meanes such complaints that those that sit in the Chaire of Magistracie are covenant promise and oathes-breakers and are self●-Lovers Lovers of honour mo●eys and ease and regard not the c●ies of the oppressed T●ey favour the rich for reward and despise and sleight the poore They give the Earth to some and denie the Earth others by reason whereof murmurings and divisions multiplie and so uphold the slavish Law of conquests Now judge Is such a Magistracie as this the greatest Light doth this tye the Creation together in the unity of spirit and band of peace surely as yet the mysterie of iniquitie sports himselfe uncontrouled under this excellent name or covering called Magistracie but the babes and sucklings will draw off his vaile and shew all his nakednesse and shame him If you would finde true Majestie indeed goe among the poore despised ones of the Earth for there Christ dwells and there you shall see Light and Love shine in Majestie indeed rising up to unite the Creation indeed into the unitie of spirit and band of peace the blessing of the Lord is am●ngst the poore and the covetous scoffing covenant-b●eaking thieves and murderers that croud themselves under the name Magistracie shall be sent emptie away These great ones are too stately houses for Christ to dwell in he takes up his abode in a manger Inne and amongst the poore in spirit and despised ones of the Earth Secondly Imaginarie Ministrie and Religion is to be plucked up as unsavorie salt and this is the learned publick Ministrie of the world for this Ministrie is set up by craft and covetousnesse how to draw the Earth and the labours of men into the Clergies hands These men make themselves ministers as a man teaches birds to speake But they doe not stay till Christ make them for that will be too long for them to wait the rich Benefices will be all taken up This Ministrie having learned other mens words by their long education in their Vniversitie Schooles takes upon them to interpret other mens words and writings and this imaginary studie of theirs they call pure Doctrine and tells the people it is pure Religion to come and heare their Sermon and to give them Tithes or a la●ge maintenance for so doing But this is a false Prophet he runs before he be sent Study and Imagination was never appointed and sent of Christ to be a Minister for him this is Antichrists Ministrie For when Christ sent out his Disciples to preach he saith that which you have heard and seen goe preach and saith Paul we cannot but speake the things which we have heard and seen from the Father But the Vniversitie publick Ministrie runs before he be sent they take up another mans message and carries abroad other mens words or studies or imagines a meaning and this is their ministrie This is not to preach the truth as it was in Jesus purely and experimentally as they received it of the Father but as they receive it from man and by man The Scriptures of the Bible were written by the experimentall hand of Shepherds Husbandmen Fishermen and such inferiour men of the world And the Vniversitie learned ones have got these mens writings and flourish●s their plaine language over with their darke interpretation and glosses as if it were too hard for ordinary men now to understand them and thereby th●y deceive the simple and makes a prey of the poore and cosens them of the Earth and of the tenth of their labors And because those mens writings are taking with the world therefore thes● learned ones shuts out the true Penmen in whom the Spirit dwells and saith now such Mecanicks must not meddle with spirituall things And so by covetous policie in opposition to the ●ig●teous spirit they engrosse other mens ex●erimentall spirituall teachings to themselves as if it were their ow●e by Vniversity or Schoole learning succession Pope l●ke Nay just the Pope And by their ●lacknesse of darknesse in their Schoole-learning they have d●awne a vayle over the truth And Light by them is hid from the world for the plaine t●u●h is this Imaginary ministrie is neither better nor worse but plaine unmasked Iudas And the snappish bitter profession that cries it up is the unmasked murdering Scribes and Pharisees The one betrayes Christ the spirit of righteousnesse with a kisse pretending a great deale of Love to the Spirit by preaching and praying to a God without they know not where nor what he is The other kills him and will not suffer him to appeare in the world for these snappish professors calls every thing blasphemie unlesse they approve of it still tying the Spir●t to themselves saying Loe here is Christ in this man and loe there is Christ in that man But Christ is the Light of Life spread abroad and he is now rising in Husbandmen Shepherds Fishermen And by these he first takes off the black interpretation hat the imaginary learned Scholars by their studies have defiled the Scriptures of old with and restores them to their owne genuine and pure Light And then to discover his appearance in sonnes and daughters in a fuller measure the poore despised ones shall be honoured first in the worke and from this ●ust the blessing shall arise to cover the whole Earth with peace and with the knowledge of the Lord For this is the vine that shall overspread the Earth and shall be confi●●d no longer within a Colledge or private Vniversity Cha●ber or under a covetous proud black gowne that would alwayes be speaking words but fall off when people begins to act their words When Jesus Christ the Sonne of man was upon Earth in that one p●rson he could very seldome speake but the hypocriticall snappish Pharisees were either si●●n● and watched to trap him in his speech ●ob●i●g him into bondage or else with open mouth they cryed out he is a blasphemer a Devill and a friend of Publicans and sinners condemning him b●cause he was no scholar How knowes this man l●ters seeing he never learned And have not the Pharisees of our age who are the imaginary bi●t●r professors the same subtlety a●d language And as they of old sought to kill Christ so these end●avour to suppresse him and will not suffer him to arise in sonnes and daughters though the Scripture declare it w●ich they make such a strict professio● of as if they would not loose one letter These professors will st●ll ●onfi●e Christ to a private chamber and to p●●●icular ●odies ●nd restraine him who is the ●●iversall power of Love and peace They owne a●m in w●rds but they denie him in power they worship God at a distance not knowing where he is nor what they worship And they

cast out as stinking imaginary ●ung of false-hearted ones who professes Love in words and in actions deny Love but lifts up the Devill and covetousnesse and bondage If you truly owne Christ you will cheerefully hold forth the restoring spirit in your actions Christ the Anoynting spirit doth not enslave any but comes to set all free he comes not to destroy but to save he comes not to put sackcloath and mourning weeds upon mankinde but to pull them off and to wipe away all teares So long as the Earth is intangled and appropriated into particular hands and kept there by the power of the sword as it is and your profession holds it up so long the Creation lies under bondage And the Devill who is the power of covetousnesse or murderer doth rule and is the God whom you generally professe for you acknowledge Christ in words and the Dragon in your actions and so hypocrisie reignes King in the Earth at this very day But if any of you will truly acknowledge Christ now in the end of your dayes come joyne hands and hearts together and set the Earth free nothing now stands in the way of Englishmen but inward covetousnesse Be not like the Rats and Mise that drawes the treasures of the Earth into your holes to looke upon whil'st your fellow-members to whom it belongs as well as to you by the Law of Creation doe starve for want But you have no warrant from the Law of Righteousnesse so to doe whensoever you lock up the treasure of the Earth and desires more then food and rayment you doe evill When you know the Sonne within as you can talke much of him without then the Sonne will set you free and truly he is comming on a maine to breake downe all your pinfoulds and to lay all open to the Common the rough wayes he will make smooth and crooked wayes strait and levell mountaines and valleys And covetous proud selfe-Love and ruling and teaching hypocrisie shall tye up or restraine his spirit no longer for the voyce is gone out freedome freedome freedome he that hath eares to heare let him heare he that is filthie let him be filthy still till he be cast out as dung and unsavory salt And so I leave this with you as I was commanded and bid you farewell Being a friend to Love wading through the bondage of the world JERRARD WINSTANLY The Matters contained in the following DISCOURSE VVHat the Garden of Eden is Chap. 1. VVhat the tree of Knowledge of good and evill is 2. VVhat the Tree of Life is 3. What the Serpent is 4. What the living Soule Man is that is called very good 5. VVhat the Curse is that doth defile the man 6. What the blessing is that restores him againe 7. What these foure Beasts are whose burdning powers as that bondage which the Creation grones under waiting to be delivered from 8. What are the Time Times and dividing of time in the spirit of Mankinde which man posses through before he sits downe in true rest 9. How man is tempted and when he is said to fall by temptation 10. How Christ was tempted and by whom and how he overcame the tempter 11. What the Kingdome without is which is called the Devills 12. What the Kingdome of Heaven is within which is called Christs Kingdome 13. With divers other testimonies of like Nature FIRE IN THE BUSH The Spirit burning not consuming but purging Mankinde CHAP. I. What the Garden of Eden is THE whole Creation of fire water Earth and Aire and all the varieties of bodies made up thereof is the cloathing of God so that all things that is A substantiall being looked upon in the lump is the fullnesse of him that fills all with himselfe he is in all things and by him all things consist And this God or almighty Ruler is universall Love strength and life And as he begets and brings forth every thing in their degree and kinde so he is the Restorer of all things from that defilement death and sorrow which they fall into and the alone deliverer from the oppressing power preserving every one in peace Therefore he is called the Lord God Almighty for he is the onely and alone living spirit which dwells every where and can doe what he will And of all those bodies that are called Creatures or the clothing of God Mankinde is the chief And because the Father or spirit of all things manifests himselfe in mankinde in life strength and wisdome more then in any other creature therefore mankinde is made the Lord of all And the whole Earth is this The Lords For when all things were produced and appeared very good in the liking and content of the creating spirit The word of Command was to whole mankinde not ●o one or a few single branches of mankinde doe thou take possession over the fish fowle Beast and doe thou till the Earth and doe thou multiplie and fill the Earth And no part or branch of mankind is shut out by him from this imployment For as the great Earth and the inferiour creatures therein are as the Commons Forrests and delights of God in the out Coasts of the Creation Even so Mankind The living Earth is the very Garden of Eden wherein that spirit of Love did walke and delight himselfe principally as being the Head and Lord of all the rest In this Garden are five Rivers Hearing Seeing Tasting Smelling Feeling which we in our age of the world call five Senses And these five water springs doe refresh and preserve the whole Creation both of the out coasts and of the Garden In this Garden Mankind and in every branch of him there is a Tree of knowledge of good and evill called Imagination and the Tree of Life called universall Love or pure knowledge in the power When Mankinde or the living soule feeds upon or delights himselfe in the fruit of that tree of good and evill which is selfish unwarranted and unexperienced Imagination which is his weaknesse and disease then he looses his honour and strength and falls from his dominion Lordship and becomes like the Beasts of the field void of understanding For the Lord of so great and vast a body as the Creation is must know all things cleerely as they be and not by blinde Imagination that leads mankind sometimes astray as well as sometimes in the right way When mankind is guided by Imagination he runs a great hazard upon life and death This power is he that calls good evill and evill good This knowes not the crea●●rg Spirit in inward feeling but does fancie him to be sometimes one thing sometimes another and still dwells in the dark Chamber of uncertainty And while Mankinde eates of this Tree and delights himselfe here he is driven out of the Ga●den that is out of himselfe he enjoyes not himselfe he knowes not himselfe he lives without the true God or ruler and is like the Beasts of the field who live upon objects without