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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96697	A new-yeers gift for the Parliament and Armie: shewing what the kingly power is; and that the cause of those that they call Diggers is the life and marrow of that cause the Parliament hath declared for, and the Army fought for; the perfecting of which work, will prove England to be the first of nations, of the tenth part of the city Babylon, that fals off from the Beast first, and that sets the Crown upon Christs head, to govern the world in righteousness: / by Jerrard Winstanley a lover of Englands freedom and peace.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1650 (1650)	Wing W3050; Thomason E587_6; ESTC R206278	36,076	51

but I say Cast out their power whereby they hold the people in bondage as the King held them in bondage And I say it is our own Freedom we claim both by bargain and by equality in the Conquest as well as by the Law of righteous Creation which gives the Earth to all equally And the power of Lords of Mannors lies in this They deny the Common people the use and free benefit of the Earth unless they give them leave and pay them for it either in Rent in Fines in Homages or Heriots Surely the Earth was never made by God that the Younger brother should not live in the Earth unless he would work for and pay his Elder brother Rent for the Earth No this Slavery came in by Conquest and it is part of the Kingly power and England cannot be a Free Common-wealth till this Bondage be taken away You have taken away the King you have taken away the House of Lords Now step two steps further and take away the power of Lords of Mannors and of Tything Priests and the intolerable oppressions of Judges by whom Laws are corrupted and your work will be honourable Fourthly if this Freedom be denied the Common people To enjoy the Common Land then Parliament Army and Judges will deny Equity and Reason whereupon the Laws of a well-governed Common-wealth ought to be built And if this Equity be denied then there can be no Law but Club-Law among the people and if the Sword must raign then every Party will be striving to bear the Sword and then farewel Peace nay farewel Religion and Gospel unless it be made use of to intrap one another as we plainly see some Priests and others make it a Cloke for their Knavery If I adventure my life and fruit of my labour equal with you and obtain what we strive for it is both Equity and Reason that I should equally divide the Spoil with you and not you to have all and I none And if you deny us this you take away our Propriety from us our Moneys and Blood and give us nothing for it Therefore I say the Common Land is my own Land equal with my fellow-Commoners and our true Propriety by the Law of Creation it is every ones but not one single ones Yea the Commons are as truely ours by the last excellent two Acts of Parliament the Foundation of Englands new righteous Government aimed at as the Elder brothers can say the Inclosures are theirs for they adventured their Lives and covenanted with us to help them to preserve their Freedom And we adventured our lives and they covenanted with us to purchase and to give us our Freedom that hath been hundreds of yeers kept from us Daemona non Armis sed Morte subegit Iesus By patient Sufferings not by Death Christ did the Devil kill And by the same still to this day his Foes he conquers still True Religion and undefiled is this To make restitution of the Earth which hath been taken and held from the Common people by the power of Conquests formerly and so set the oppressed free Do not All strive to enjoy the Land The Gentry strive for Land the Clergie strive for Land the Common people strive for Land and Buying and Selling is an Art whereby people endeavour to cheat one another of the Land Now if any can prove from the Law of Righteousness that the Land was made peculiar to him and his successively shutting others out he shall enjoy it freely for my part But I affirm It was made for all and true Religion is To let every one enjoy it Therefore you Rulers of England make restitution of the Lands which the Kingly power holds from us Set the oppressed free and come in and honour Christ who is the Restoring Power and you shall finde rest The CURSE and BLESSING that is in MANKINDE IN the beginning of Time the Spirit of Universal Love appeared to be the father of all things The Creation of Fire Water Earth and Air came out of him and is his clothing Love is the Word The Creation is the House or Garden in which this one Spirit hath taken up his seat and in which he manifests himself For if ever Love be seen or known he appears either in the inward feeling within your hearts loving All with tender love or else appears towards you from outward objects as from other Men or other creatures There are two Earths in which the Spirit of Love declares himself First the Living Earth called Mankinde this is the Creation or the living soul And when this Spirit of universal Love rules King therein this Earth is then in peace and is grown up to the perfection of a man anointed But when Self or Particular love rules which is called the sin Covetousness then this Earth is brought into Bondage and Sorrow fills all places This is the dark side of the Cloud in which there is no true peace Secondly in the great Body of Earth in which all creatures subsist the Spirit of Universal Love appears to preserve his Creation in peace for Universal Love unites not onely Mankinde into an oneness bnt unites all other creatures into a sweet harmony of willingness to preserve Mankinde And this Spirit of Love spread abroad is the same Spirit of Love that is supreme in Man and this is the Righteous man But when Covetousness or Particular love began to work then not onely Mankinde was divided amongst themselves but all creatures were divided and enmity rose up amongst them setting one against another and this power is the wicked man mark him where you see him which is the Murderer and must be cast out Wel In the begining universal love appeared to be the father of al things though self-love in our experience rules in man first and as he made mankinde to be the Lord of the Earth so he made the Earth to be a common Treasury of livelihood to whole mankind without respect of persons and for all other creatures likewise that were to proceed from the Earth Mankind is the chief creature and the Spirit of universal Love in his branches is the Lord of all the Earth and this Spirit in man unfolds himself in Light and Darkness his face is called the universal power of Love his back parts is called the selvish power or thus the one is called the Son of Bondage which causes shame the other is called the Son of Freedom which brings peace and honour these Two strive in the womb of the Earth which shal come forth first and which shall rule the fleshy man hath got the start but the other will prove the stronger and cast him out with honour While this Spirit of Lordship in the last day time of mankind was universal Love and Righteousness leading every single branch of mankind to do to another as he would be done unto then every thing was in peace and there was a sweet communion of Love in the creation and as

the Spirit was a common Treasurie of Unitie and Peace within so the Earth was a common Treasurie of delight for the preservation of their bodies without so that there was nothing but peace upon the face of the whole Earth This was mans estate before the fall or the day time of mankind for since the time that our Bibles speak of Adam to this day is about 6000 yeers and this time hath been the night time of mankind and Esays time was about midnight when in one of his words he cries Watchman What of the night Watchman What of the night the seventh thousand yeer which is now dawning will be the rising of the Son of universal Love again and of the dispersing of the night or darkness for as the night and day Sun and Moon hath their exchanges so hath these Two powers called Sons of God in mankind and in this age wherein we now live is the expiring of the selvish power and the rising up of the Blessing which hath been spoke of in al ages but now appearing like lightning from east to west casting out the Mysterie of Iniquitie or self power by the word of his mouth and by the brightness of his comming and so bringing peace So that as there is the power of Light which is universal Love called the Blessing which brings Peace so there is the power of Darkness which is particular or self love and this is called the Curse for it brings sorrow and while this rules King in the Earth as it doth at this day visibly through the whole Earth few are saved that is few enter into rest and peace for this power hath filled all places with his stinking self seeking Government and troubles every body As there is light and darkness day and night clouds and cleerness moving upon the face of the great Earth and as there is Earth and Waters in the great World which runs round so mankind is called sometimes Earth sometimes Waters and as the Sun in the skies moves upon the great Earth and makes that fruitful which seemed dead while the Sun is under the dark cloudy winter quarter Even so the Son of universal Love who is the Spirit and power of universal Freedom he moves upon the living waters mankind and makes him who all the dark time past was a Chaos of confusion lying under Types Shadows Ceremonies Forms Customes Ordinances and heaps of waste words under which the Spirit of Truth lay buried now to enlighten to worship in Spirit and Truth and to bring forth fruit of Righteousness in action In our present experience The darkness or self love goeth before and light or universal love follows after the flesh runs hasty and quick and loses himself in unrational excessive action the true Spirit comes slowly after and takes the Crown Darkness and Bondage doth oppress Liberty and Light and the power of universal Love appears most sweet and full of glory when the power of self Love or Covetousness hath tortured the Creation mankind with bitter Tyranny for this is the Dragon or Murderer that must be cast out before the Creation man can sing Haelelujah in peace So then you may see That the innocency light and purity of mankind is this when the Spirit of universal Love lives in him and he lives in Love enjoying the sweet Union and communion of Spirit each with other When they enjoy the sweet delight of the Unitie of one Spirit and the free content of the fruits and crops of this outward Earth upon which their bodies stand this was called The mans innocency or pleasure in the Garden before his fall or the day time of mankind and day is more glorious then night and greater honour to be a child of the day then of the night The fall of mankind or his darkness is this When that Son of universal Love which was the seed out of which the creation sprung forth did begin to go behind the cloud of flesh and to let self-seeking flesh which would needs be a God stand alone by his imaginary light as we see while the Sun is in the skies a man sees and knows his footsteps but when the Sun is set under the cloud of the dark night then he imagins his way and oft times stumbles and falls Even so when universal Love shines in his glory in mankind he stumbles not he walks in the light because the light is in him but when the light within with drawes and lets flesh stand alone Flesh that is The selvish power will not wait in peace and acknowledge himself in a loss and in darkness till the Sun rise again But will fain be a God and calls his weakness strength and though there appears nothing but deformity yet he would have it called beauty and because his inward power is not sutable to his outward profession he is tormented he is a Saint without but a Devil within but if thou wouldest have peace act as thou art shew thy self abroad in action what thou art secretly but when thou beginst to imagine a content and happiness to thy self by thy hypocritical self invention then thou art tormented or shalt be And by this imagination mankind tears himself in pieces as one of your Colonels of the Army said to me That the Diggers did work upon George Hill for no other end but to draw acompany of People into Arms and sayes our knavery is found out because it takes not that effect Truly thou Colonel I tell thee Thy knavish imagination is thereby discovered which hinders the effecting of that Freedom which by Oath and Covenant thou hast Engaged to maintain for my part and the rest we had no such thought we abhor fighting for Freedom it is acting of the Curse and lifting him up higher and do thou uphold it by the Sword we will not we will conquer by Love and Patience or else we count it no Freedom Freedom gotten by the Sword is an established Bondage to some part or other of the Creation and this we have Declared publickly enough therefore thy imagination told thee a lye and will deceive thee in a greater matter if Love doth not kill him Victory that is gotten by the Sword is a Victory that slaves gets one over another and hereby men of the basest Spirit saith Daniel are set to Rule but Victory obtained by Love is a Victory for a King But by this you may see what a liar imagination is and how he makes bate and tears the Creation in pieces for after that self Love hath subdued others under him then imagination studies how to keep himself up and keep others down This is your very inward Principle O ye present powers of England you do not study how to advance universal Love if you did it would appear in action but imagination and self-love mightily disquiets your mind and makes you call up all the powers of darknesse to come forth and help to set the Crown upon the head of Self

in his hands Then next The Art of buying and selling promises to save the Creation and bring it into peace but this is a hypocriticall false cheating christ too for hereby covetous self-love with his flattering tongue cheats honest hearted ones and casts them under tyranny and gets the fulness of the Earth into his hands and lock it up in chests and barns from others and saith this is righteous and God gave it him but thou cheater thou liest God the King of righteousness gave it thee not he bids thee sell all that thou hast and give to the poor he doth not bid thee lock it up from the poor therefore thou trading art thou art no true saviour neither but a Devil thou savest part and destroyest another part yea and afterwards destroyest that part which at first thou seemedst to save Now all these saviours are linked together if one truly fall all must fall they all promise to save the Creation but destruction is in their hands and actions they all seek to set up self and particular power and so to save but part of the creation for every one are destroyers of universall love They that sit in these seats would be called men of publike Spirits but truly you are all selfish you are afraid to own publike spirited men nay you are ashamed some of you to be seen walking or talking with true publike spirited men called Levellers But well yet there is a promise of restoration and salvation to the whole creation and this must be wrought by a power contrary to darkness for all those former saviours lie under darkness nay are branches of the power of darkness it self and darkness can never kill darkness but now the true Saviour must be a power quite opposite to darkness And this is The power of Universall Love light and righteousness and if ever the creation be wholly saved this power must be the saviour for this is the blessing and he will declare himself the true Saviour indeed the other is but the curse this is the true restorer the true seed with us as he arises and spreads he will bruise the Serpents head in every one and bring peace to all and wipe away all tears from the creation and make a through salvation of it through the whole earth and leave none under bondage This is the Sun of righteousness when he ariseth he disperseth darkness and will make all ashamed that had hands in promoting of the other false saviours power but I must leave this and speak a little more of the present condition mankind lies under and this is darknes or the fall and in this estate ignorant inslaved slesh would ever run round in it and never come out but counts it freedom but they that know the burthen of this estate hunger after freedom This darknes is twofold first inward and that is the power of darkness in his branchs as covetousness envy pride hypocrisie self-self-love this is the curse in man and this darkness hath and yet doth cover the earth this power would be as God and makes one to rule over another and he is so proud that he will hasten to rule though he kill others for honour and this is he that stirs up wars and dissention and thereby he destroyes himself Secondly this inward power sets one against another and so fills the earth with dark actions and causeth some part of mankind to tread others under foot and puts them into bondage and they that act this power calls it The power and Ordinance of God which is true It is God indeed but it is the god of the world the prince of darknes not the King of Righteousnesse it is the power of the Beast who is limited to rule for a time times and dividing of time and England is under that dividing of time therefore I hope England shall be the tenth part of the Citie confusion that shall fall from the Beast first And this dark power or imaginarie covetousnesse hath raised a platform of oppression in the creation under which the creation groans and waits to be delivered and it is raised thus First this dark power within makes every one to love himself with others loss just like Beasts of the Field and this made mankind to begin to loath or envie each others Freedom and peace and hereby the Union and Communion of Love within is broke and mankind is faln from it then this inward Covetousnesse makes mankind to fight one against another for the Earth and breaks Communion in that and falls from content therein likewise and every one seeks to save himself to take the Earth to himself but none or few seeks the things of Christ or of universal Love Nay Covetousnesse is such a god that where he Rules he would have all the Earth to himself and he would have all to be his servants and his heart swels most against Communitie calling Communitie a thief that takes other mens Rights and Proprietie from them but communitie will force nothing from any one but take what is given in love of that which others have wrought for but no man yet hath bestowed any labour upon the Commons that lies waste therefore the Diggers doth take no mans proper goods from them in so doing but those that by force spoyls their labours takes their proper goods from them which is the fruit of their own labours Well you see how Covetousnesse would have all the Earth to himself though he let it lie waste he stirs up Divisions among men and makes parties fight against parties and all is but for this Who shall enjoy the Earth and live in honour and case and rule over others and the stronger party alwayes rules over the weaker party And hence came in Kingly power to rule outwardly dividing between members of that one body mankind giving the Earth to that party called Gentry who are the Success●rs of some late Conquests and denying the Earth to the poor Commoners who are the Successors of some that were last Conquered So that by Kingly power the Earth is divided as it is now at this day but as the Scriptures say Kings were given for a plague to the people not a blessing And I beleeve the Nations have found this very true to their great sorrow 〈◊〉 and the way to cast out Kingly power again is not to cast them out by the Sword for this doth but set him in more power and removes him from a weaker to a stronger hand but the only way to cast him out is For the People to leave him to himself to forsake fighting and all oppression and to live in love one towards another This power of Love is the true Saviour The party that is called a King was but the head of an Army and he and his Army having Conquered shuts the conquered out of the Earth and will not suffer them to enjoy it but as a servant and slave to him and by this power the creation is

divided and part are call into bondage so that the best you can say of Kingly power that Rules by the Sword is this He is a murderer and a theif And by this power the Earth is thus divided The several Nations of the Earth where Kings rule are the several situation of such grand Theeves and Murderers that will rule over others by the Sword upholding a forced Propriety which is the Curse and persecuting the community of Love which is Christ the blessing And under them they have their cheif Favourits or neerest Souldiers in Office to himself and to these he allows the greatest portion of the Earth every one his part called a Lordship and next to them the inferior Officers or Souldiers are appointed out lesser parcels of the Earth called free-Holders paying no slavish Rent or Homage to any but only acknowledgment That the King is their General or Head still And these Lords of Mannors and Free holders having thus seated themselves in the Earth by taking other mens proper labours from them by the Sword are appointed by the Kiug as Watchmen That if any of the conquered slaves seek to Plant the Common waste Earth without their leave they may be known and beaten off So that the god from whom they claim Title to the Land as proper to them shutting out others was Covetousnesse the Murderer the swordly power that great red Dragon who is called The god of the World But the King of Righteousnesse who is universal Love who is the Lord God Almighty bidding every one do as they would be done by made the Earth for All without respect of person and shuts out none from enjoying a peaceable livelihood that hath a body therefore they that build upon the power of the Sword upholding covetous Propriety are enemies to the law of Righteousnesse which is Love your enemies do as you would be done by But one of your Officers told me What saith he If we grant to every one to have the Land of England in Common we do not only destroy Propriety but we do that which is not practised in any Nation in the world I Answered It was true Propriety came in you see by the Sword therefore the Curse for the murderer brought it in and upholds him by his power and it makes a division in the Creation casting many under bondage therefore it is not the blessing or the promised seed And what other Lands do England is not to take pattern for England as well as other Lands hath lyen under the power of that Beast Kingly propriety But now England is the first of Nations that is upon the point of Reforming and if England must be the tenth part of the City Babylon that fals off from the Beast first and would have that honour he must cheerfully and dally no longer cast out Kingly covetous Propriety and set the Crown upon Christs head who is the universal Love or Free community and so be the leader of that happy Restoration to all the Nations of the world And if England refuse some other Nation may be chosen before him and England then shall lose his Crown for if ever the Creation be Restored this is the way which lies in this Two fold power First Community of Mankind which is comprised in the unity of spirit of Love which is called Christ in you or the Law writen in the heart leading mankind into all truth and to be of one heart and one mind The Second is Community of the Earth for the quiet livelihood in food and raiment without using force or restraining one another These two Communities or rather one in two branches is that true Levelling which Christ will work at his more glorious appearance for Jesus Christ the Saviour of all men is the greatest first and truest Leveller that ever was spoke of in the world Therefore you Rulers of England be not ashamed nor afraid of Levellers hate them not Christ comes to you riding upon these clouds look not upon other Lands to be your pattern all Lands in the world he under darkness so doth England yet though the neerest to Light and Freedom of any other therefore let no other Land take your Crown You have set Christ upon his throne in England by your Promises Engagements Oathes and Two Acts of Parliament the One to cast out Kingly power the Other to make England a Free Common-wealth Put all these into sincere Action and you shall see the work is done and you with others shall sing Halelujah to him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore But if you do not the Lamb shall shew himself a Lion and tear you in pieces for your most abominable dissembling Hypocrisie and give your Land to a People who better deserves it I have varied a little therefore I will return to what I was speaking I told you That the Murdering and Theeving Sword hath found out a Platform of Tyrannical Government called Kingly Power First here is the King the Head of the murdering power or great red Dragon Then there are Lords of Mannors who have the greatest circuit of Land because the next in Power to the Head Then there are Free-holders that took the particular Inclosures which they found in a Land when they Conquered it and had turned out those that had bestowed labour upon it by force of the Sword in the sield or else by sequestring afterwards These several parcels of Land are called Free-hold-Land because the Enjoyers or their Ancestors were Souldiers and helped the King to conquer and if any of latter yeers came to buy these Free-holds with Money got by Trading it doth not alter the Title of the Conquest for Evidences are made in the Kings Name to remove the Free-holds so bought from one mans hand to another But now Copy-hold lands are parcels hedged in and taken out of the common waste land since the conquest acknowledging Homage Fines and Heriots to the Lord of that Mannor or circuit in which that Inclosure by his leave is made this Homage still confirmes the power of the conquests The Lords of Mannors acknowledged Homage to the King in that Court of Wards which you have taken away to ease your selves But the Copy-holders you will have to acknowledge Homage to Lords of Mannors still and is not this partiality O you Rulers make the poor as free to the Earth as your selves and honour Righteousnesse Now for the drawing in of the People to yeeld Obedience to this Platform of Kingly tyrannical power to which People are made subject through fear The Kingly power sets up a Preaching Clergy to draw the People by insinuating words to conform hereunto and for their pains Kingly power gives them the Tithes And when the Kingly power hath any Design to lift up himself higher then the Clergy is to Preach up that Design as of late in our Wars the Preachers most commonly in their Sermons medled with little but State matters and then if