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soul_n	life_n	live_v	spirit_n	13,616	5	5.5781	4	true

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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

steal any mans proper goods as Sheep Geese Pigs as they say let such be made a spectacle to all the world For my part I own no such doing neither do I know any such thing by any of the Diggers Likewise they report that we Diggers hold women to be common and live in that bestialnesse For my part I declare against it I own this to be a truth That the earth ought to be a common Treasury to all but as for women Let every man have his own wife and every woman her own husband and I know none of the Diggers that act in such an unrationall excesse of female communitie If any should I professe to have nothing to do with such people but leave them to their own Master who will pay them with torment of minde and diseases in their bodies These and such-like tales we hear are brought to you to incense you against us but we desire you to mark them that bring them for we partly know who they be and we can tell them to their faces they were Cavaliers and had hands in the Kentish Rising and in stirring up that offensive Surrey Petition which was the occasion of bloodshed in Westminster-yard and they would rejoyce to see the Prince come in with an Armie to over-top you for we know they love you not but from the teeth outwards for their own ends And these are the proud Hamans that would incense you against the Mordecaies of the Land even your true-hearted friends the Diggers Well in the midst of our slanders we rejoyce in the uprightness of our hearts and we do commit our cause to him that judgeth righteously Upon these lying reports and importunitie to the General it seems the General granted the Lords of Mannor to have some souldiers to go along with the Sheriff to pull down the Diggers houses and so the souldiers did come but they were very moderate and rationall men and as they were sent to secure the Sheriff so they did but there was no cause for though the Gentlemen possess'd the General that they feared opposition from the Diggers yet the souldiers saw they lifted not up a finger in discontent but fought against those dragons the Lords of Manors with the spirit of love and patience for when the two Lords of Manor sat among the souldiers on hors-back and coach and commanded their fearfull tenants to pull down one of the Diggers houses before their faces and rejoyced with shouting at the fall yet some of the Diggers stood by and were very chearfull and preached the Gospel to those Turkish Bashaws which are words of life and in time will prove words of terrour to torment their awakened consciences And the poor tenants that pulled down the house durst do no other because their Land-lords and Lords looked on for fear they should be turned out of service or their livings as a a poor honest man because he looked with a cheerfull countenance upon the Diggers though he was affraid to come neer or affraid to speak openly lest his Landlords setting-dogs should smell the sound of his words and carry a pick-thank tale which his Lords ears are much open to a Baily was sent presently to him to warn him out of his house Can the Turkish Bashaws hold their slaves in more bondage than these Gospel-professing Lords of Manors do their poor tenants and is not this the Kingly power O you Rulers of England I pay see that your own acts be obeyed and let the oppressed go free And when the poor enforced slaves had pulled down the house then their Lords gave them ten shillings to drink and there they smiled one upon another being fearfull like a dog that is kept in awe when his Master gives him a bone and stands over him with a whip he will eat and look up and twinch his tail for they durst not laugh out left their Lords should hear they jeer'd them openly for in their hearts they are Diggers Therefore you Lords of Manors if you have none to stand for you but whom you force by threatning then leave off striving against the spirit and say you are fallen and come in and embrace righteousnesse that you may finde mercy betimes The next day after this there came two souldiers and three Country-men to another house which the Diggers had set up which the Sheriff the day before had let alone for as some say he was grieved to see what was done one of these souldiers was very civill and walked lovingly with the Diggers round their corn which they had planted and commended the work and would do no harm as divers others were of the same minde and when he went his way gave the Diggers 12 d. to drink but the other souldier was so rude that he forced those three Country-men to help him to pull down the house and railed bitterly the men were unwilling to pull it down but for fear of their Landlords and the threatning souldier they did put their hands to pull it down And seeing Parson Platt the Lord of that Manor will not suffer the Diggers to have a house wherein he forgets his Master Christ that is persecuted in naked hungry and houselesse members yet the Diggers were mighty cheerfull and their spirits resolve to wait upon God to see what he will do and they have built them some few little hutches like calf-cribs and there they lie anights and follow their work adayes still with wonderfull joy of heart taking the spoyling of their goods cheerfully counting it a great happinesse to be persecuted for righteousnesse sake by the Priests and Professors that are the successors of Judas and the bitter-spirited Pharisees that put the man Christ Jesus to death And they have planted divers Acres of Wheat and Rye which is come up and promises a very hopefull crop committing their cause to God and wait upon him saying O thou King of righteousnesse do thine own work O that you would search and try our wayes narrowly and see whether we deny God Christ Scriptures as the Priests slander us we do and you shall finde that the Scriptures warrant our action and God in Christ is the life of our souls and the support of our spirits in the midst of this our sharp persecution from the hands of unreasonable men who have not faith in Christ but uphold the Kingly power which you have Voted down Likewise you shall see that we live in the performance of that work which is the very life and marrow of the Parliaments Cause whereby we honour the Parliament and their Cause as you shall see by this following Declaration unfolding the foundation whereupon Englands Laws are or the Freedom of a Common-wealth ought to be built which is Equity and Reason IN the time of the Kings who came in as Conquerors and ruled by the power of the Sword not only the Common land but the Inclosures also were captivated under the will of those Kings till now of late that

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