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A66685	The law of freedom in a platform: or, True magistracy restored Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Common-wealths army in England. And to all English-men my brethren whether in church-fellowship, or not in church-fellowship, both sorts walking as they conceive according to the order of the Gospel: and from them to all the nations in the world. Wherein is declared, what is kingly government, and what is Commonwealths government. By Jerrard Winstanley.	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1652 (1652)	Wing W3045A; ESTC R220031	79,685	104

by his own industry and observation in tryal And because other Nations are of several languages therefore these speeches may be made sometimes in other Languages and sometimes in our Mother Tongue that so the men of our English Commonwealth may attain to all Knowledges Arts and Languages and that every one may be encouraged in his Industry and purchase the countenance and love of their neighborhood for their wisdom and experimental knowledge in the things which are And thus to speak or thus to read the Law of Nature or God as he hath written his name in every body is to speak a pure language and this is to speak the truth as Jesus Christ spake it giving to every thing it s own weight and measure By this means in time men shall attain to the practical knowledge of God truly That they may serve him in spirit and truth and this knowledge will not deceive a man I but saith the zealous but ignorant Professor This is a low and carnal ministry indeed this 〈◊〉 men to know nothing but the knowledge of the earth and the secrets of nature but we are to look after spiritual and beavenly things I answer To know the secrets of nature is to know the works of God And to know the works of God within the Creation is to know God himself for God dwels in every visible work or body And indeed if you would know spiritual things it is to know how the spirit or power of wisdom and life causing motion or growth dwels within and governs both the several bodies of the stars and planets in the heavens above and the several bodies of the earth below as grass plants fishes beasts birds and mankinde for to reach God beyond the Creation or to know what he will be to a man after the man is dead if any otherwise then to scatter him into his Essences of fire water earth and air of which he is compounded is a knowledge beyond the line or capacity of man to attain to while he lives in his compounded body And if a man should go to imagine what God is beyond the Creation or what he will be in a spiritual demonstration after a man is dead he doth as the proverb saith build castles in the air or tells us of a world beyond the Moon and beyond the Sun meerly to blinde the reason of man I le appeal to your self in this question what other knowledg have you of God but what you have within the circle of the Creation For if the Creation in all its dimentions be the fulness of him that fills all with himself and if you your self be part of this Creation where can you finde God but in that line or station wherein you stand God manifests himself in actual knowledge not in imagination he is still in motion either in bodies upon earth or in the bodies in the heavens or in both in the night and in the day in Winter in Summer in cold in heat in growth or not in growth But when a studying imagination comes into man which is the devil for it is the cause of all evil and sorrows in the world that is he who puts out the eyes of mans Knowledg and tells him he must beleeve what others have writ or spoke and must not trust to his own experience And when this bewitching fancy sits in the chair of Government there is nothing but saying and unsaying frowardness covetousness fears confused thoughts and unsatisfied doubtings all the days of that mans reign in the heart Or secondly Examine your self and look likewise into the ways of all Professors and you shall finde That the Enjoyment of the Earth below which you call a low and a carnal Knowledg is that which you and all professors as well as the men of the world as you call them strive and seek after Wherefore are you so covetous after the World in buying and selling counting your self a happy man if you be rich and a miserable man if you be poor And though you say Heaven after death is a place of glory where you shall enjoy God face to face yet you are loth to leave the Earth to go thither Do not your Ministers preach for to enjoy the Earth Do not professing Lawyers as well as others buy and sell the Conquerors Justice that they may enjoy the Earth Do not professing Soldiers fight for the Earth and seat themselves in that Land which is the Birth-Right of others as well as theirs shutting others out Do not all professors strive to get Earth that they may live in plenty by other mens labors Do you not make the Earth your very Rest Doth not the enjoying of the Earth please the spirit in you and then you say God is pleased with your ways and blesseth you If you want Earth and become poor do you not say God is angry with you and crosseth you Why do you heap up riches why do you eat and drink and wear clothes why do you take a woman and lie with her to beget children Are not all these carnal and low things of the Earth and do you not live in them and covet them as much as any nay more then many which you call men of the world And it being thus with you what other spiritual or heavenly things do you seek after more then others And what is in you more then in others If you say there is then surely you ought to let these earthly things alone to the men of the world as you call them whose portions these are and keep you within the compass of your own sphere that others seeing you live a life above the world in peace and freedom neither working your self nor deceiving nor compelling others to work for you they may be drawn to embrace the same spiritual life by your single-hearted conversation We 'l I have done here Let us now examin your Divinity Which you call heavenly and spiritual things for herein speeches are made not to advance knowledge but to destroy the true knowledge of God for Divinity does not speak the truth as it is hid in every body but it leaves the motional knowledge of a thing as it is And imagins studies or thinks what may be and so runs the hazzard true or false And this Divinity is always speaking words to deceive the simple that he may make them work for him and maintain him but he never comes to action himself to do as he would be done by for he is a monster who is all tongue and no hand This divining Doctrine which you call spiritual and heavenly things is the thief and the robber he comes to spoile the Vinyard of a mans peace and does not enter in at the door but he climbes up another way And this Doctrine is two fold First he takes upon him to tell you the meaning of other mens words and writing by his studying or imagining what another mans knowledge might be and by thus doing darkens

say Having food and rayment therewith be content and grudg not to let thy brother have the same with thee Dost thou pray and fast for Freedom and give God thanks again for it Why know that God is not partial for if thou pray it must be for Freedom to all and if thou give thanks it must be because Freedom covers all people for this will prove a lasting Peace Every one is ready to say They fight for their Country and what they do they do it for the good of their Country Well let it appear now that thou hast fought and acted for thy Countries Freedom But if when thou hast power to settle Freedom in thy Country thou tukest the possession of the Earth into thy own particular hands and makest thy brother work for thee as the Kings did thou hast fought and acted for thy self not for thy Country and here thy inside 〈◊〉 is discovered But here take notice That common Freedom which is the Rule I would have practised and not talked on was thy pretence but particular Freedom to thy self was thy intent 〈◊〉 or else thou wilt be shamed when Knowledg doth spread to cover the Earth even as the waters cover the Seas And so Farewell J. W. THE Law of Freedom in a Platform OR True Magistracy Restored CHAP. I. THe great searching of heart in these days is to finde out where true Freedom lies that the Commonwealth of England might be established in Peace Some say It lies in the free use of Trading and to have all Pattents Licenses and Restraints removed But this is a Freedom under the Will of a Conqueror Others say It is true Freedom to have Ministers to preach and for people to hear whom they will without being restrained or compelled from or to any form of worship But this is an unsetled Freedom Others say It is true Freedom to have Community with all Women and to have liberty to satisfie their lusts and greedy appetites But this is the Freedom of wanton unreasonable Beasts and tends to Destruction Others say It is true Freedom that the elder Brother shall 〈◊〉 Landlord of the Earth and the younger Brother a Servant And this is but a half Freedom and 〈◊〉 murmurings wars and quarrels All these and such like are Freedoms but they lead to Bondage and are not the true Foundation-Freedom which settles a Commonwealth in Peace True Commonwealths Freedom lies in the free Enjoyment of the Earth True Freedom lies where a man receives his nourishment and preservation and that is in the use of the Earth For as Man is compounded of the four Materials of the Creation Fire Water Earth and Ayr so is he preserved by the compounded bodies of these four which are the fruits of the Earth and he cannot live without them for take away the free use of these and the body languishes the spirit is brought into bondage and 〈◊〉 length departs and ceaseth his motional action in the body All that a man labors for saith Solomon is this That he may enjoy the free use of the Earth with the fruits thereof Eccles. 2. 24. Do not the Ministers preach for maintenance in the Earth the Lawyers plead causes to get the possessions of the Earth Doth not the Soldier fight for the Earth And doth not the Landlord require Rent that he may live in the fulness of the Earth by the labor of his Tenants And so from the Thief upon the high way to the King who sits upon the Throne do not every one strive either by force of Arms or secret cheats to get the possessions of the Earth one from another because they see their Freedom 〈◊〉 in plenty and their bondage lies in poverty Surely then oppressing Lords of Manors exacting Landlords and Tythe-takers may as well say their brethren shall not breathe in the ayr nor enjoy warmth in their bodies nor have the moyst waters to fall upon them in showres unless they will pay them Rent for it As to say Their brethren shall not work upon Earth nor eat the fruits thereof unless they will hire that liberty of them for he that takes upon him to restrain his brother from the liberty of the one may upon the same ground restrain him from the liberty of all four viz. Fire Water Earth and Ayr A man had better to have had no body then to have no food for it therefore this restraining of the Earth from brethren by brethren is oppression and bondage but the free enjoyment thereof is true Freedom I speak now in relation between the Oppressor and the oppressed the inward bondages I meddle not with in this place though I am assured that if it be rightly searched into the inward bondages of the minde as 〈◊〉 pride hypocriste envy sorrow fears desperation and madness are all occasioned by the outward bondage that one sort of people lay upon another And thus far natural experience makes it good That true Freedom lies in the free enjoyment of the Earth If we look into the old Scriptures We finde That when Israel had conquered the Nations he took 〈◊〉 of the Enemies Land and divided it by lot among the Tribes counting the Enjoyment of the Earth their perfect Freedom In the beginning of their wars they first sent Spies to view the Land of Canaan Numb. 13. 23. to 33. for the enjoyment of that was the Freedom they aymed at for being so long in the barren wilderness and children multiplying upon them they wanted Land to live upon Deut. 1. 28. And when the Spies returned and shewed them the fruits of the Land and had declared what a fruitful Land it was they were encouraged and restless till they were come thither and when they heard bad tydings of the Land their hearts fell and they were discouraged And when the spirit of wisdom courage and providence in them had subdued those Gyants and had given the house of Israel the Land of Canaan the Rulers and chief Officers of Israels Army did not divide the Land among themselves but being faithful spirited men they forthwith divided the Land by lot to every Tribe his portion without exception And when Israel intreated the King of Syhon to suffer him to pass through his land he would not suffer him but gathered all his people together and sought with Israel And the Lord gave Syhon into Israels hand And he took possession of his land So that we see by Scripture proof likewise the land is that which every one place their freedom in If we look into the practise of Kings and Conquerors Since the Scriptures of Moses were writ we finde they placed their freedom in the enjoyment of the free use of the earth When William Duke of Normandy had conquered England he took possession of the earth for his freedom and disposed of our English ground to his friends as he pleased and made the conquered English his servants to plant the earth for him and his friends And all Kings from his

〈◊〉 men and not like beasts That so the Common-wealth may be planted with laborious and wise experienced men and not with idle fools Mankinde may be considered in a fourfold degree his childhood youth manhood and old age his childhood and his youth may be considered from his birth till forty yeers of age and within this compass of time after he is weaned from his mother who shall be the nurse her self if there be no defect in Nature his parents shall teach him a civil and humble behavior toward all men Then send him to School to learn to read the Laws of the Common-wealth to ripen his wits from his childhood and so to proceed in his learning till he be acquainted with all Arts and Languages and the reason is threefold First By being acquainted with the knowledge of the affairs of the world by this traditional knowledge they may be the better able to govern themselves like rational men Secondly they may become thereby good Common-wealths men in supporting the government thereof by being acquainted with the nature of government Thirdly If England have occasion to send Embassadors to any other Land we may have such as are acquainted with their Language or if any Embassador come from other Lands we may have such as can understand their speech But one sort of Children shall not be trained up onely to book learning and no other imployment called Schollars as they are in the Government of Monarchy for then through idleness and exercised wit therein they spend their time to finde out 〈◊〉 to advance themselves to be Lords and Masters above their laboring brethren as Simeon and Levi do which occasions all the trouble in the world Therefore to prevent the dangerous events of idleness in Scholars it is reason and 〈◊〉 for 〈◊〉 peace that after Children have been brought up at Schools to 〈◊〉 their wits they shall then be set to such Trades Arts and Sciences as their bodies and wits are capable of and therein continue till they come to fourty years of age For all the work of the Earth or in Trades is to be managed by youth and by such as have lost their Freedoms Then from fourty years of age till fourscore if he live so long which is the degree of manhood and old age they shall be freed from all labor and work unless they will themselves And from among this degree of Mankind shal be chosen all Officers and Overseers to see the Laws of the Commonwealth observed For as all men shall be Workers or Waiters in Storehouses till they be fourty years of age so none shall be chosen a publique Officer till he be full fourty years of age for by this time Man hath learned experience to govern himself and others for when young wits are set to govern they wax wanton c. What Trades should Mankinde be brought up in In every Trade Art and Science whereby they may finde out the Secrets of the Creation and that they may know how to govern the Earth in right order There are five Fountains from whence all Arts and Sciences have their influences he that is an actor in any or in all the five parts is a profitable son of mankinde he that onely contemplates and talks of what he reads and hears and doth not employ his Talent in some bodily action for the encrease of fruitfulness freedom and peace in the Earth is an unprofitable son The first Fountain is the right planting of the Earth to make it fruitful and this is called Husbandry And there are two branches of it As first planting digging dunging liming burning grubbing and right ordering of Land to make it fit to receive seed that it may bring forth a plentiful crop And under this Head all Millers Maltsters Bakers Harness-makers for Plows and Carts Rope-makers Spinners and Weavers of linnen and such like are all but good Husbandry The second Branch of Husbandry is Gardening how to plant graft and set all sort of fruit-trees and how to order the ground for flowers Herbs and Roots for pleasure food or medicinal And here all Physicians Chyrurgeons Distillers of all sorts of Waters Gatherers of Drugs Makers of Wines and Oyl and Preservers of fruits and such like may learn by Observation what is good for all bodies both man and beasts The second Fountain is Mineral employment and that is to search into the Earth to finde out Mynes of Gold and Silver Brass Iron Tin Lead Cannel Coal and Stone of all sorts Salt-peter Salt and Allom-springs and such like And here all Chymists Gunpowder makers Masons Smiths and such like as would finde out the strength and power of the Earth may learn how to order these for the use and profit of Mankinde The third Fountain is the right ordering of Cattel whether by Shepherds or Herds men and such may learn here how to breed and train up Cows for the Daries Bulls and Horses for the saddle or yoke And here all Tanners Hatters Shoomakers Glovers Spinners of Wool Clothiers Taylors Dyers and such like may learn how to order and look to these The fourth Fountain is the right ordering of Woods and Timber trees for planting dressing selling framing of Timber for all uses for building houses or ships And here all Carpenters Joyners Throsters Plowmakers Instrument makers for musick and all who work in wood and timber may finde out the Secret of Nature to make Trees more plentiful and thriving in their growth and profitable for use The fifth Fountain from whence Reason is exercised to finde out the Secrets of Nature is observe the rising and setting of the Sun Moon and the Powers of the Heavens above and the motion of the Tydes and Seas and there several effects powers and operations upon the bodies of Man and Beast And here may be learned Astrology Astronomy and Navigation and the motions of the Winds and the causes of several Appearances of the Face of Heaven either in Storms or in Fareness And in all these five Fountains here is Knowledg in the practice and it is good But there is Traditional Knowledg which is attained by reading or by the instruction of others and not practical but leads to an idle life and this is not good The first is a laborious Knowledg and a Preserver of common Peace which we finde God himself acting for he put forth his own wisdom in practise when he set his strength to work to make the Creation for God is an active Power not an imaginary Fancy The latter is an idle lazy contemplation the Scholars would call Knowledg but it is no knowledg but a shew of Knowledg like a Parrat who speaks words but he knows not what he saith This same shew of knowledg rests in reading or contemplating or hearing others speak and 〈◊〉 so too but will not set his hand to work And from this Traditional Knowledg and Learning life up both Clergy and Lawyer who by their cunning insinuations live meerly upon the