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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66687	The new law of righteousnes budding forth, in restoring the whole creation from the bondage of the curse. Or A glimpse of the new heaven, and new earth, wherein dwels righteousnes. Giving an alarm to silence all that preach or speak from hear-say, or imagination. By Gerrard Winstanley	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3049; ESTC R219016	82,328	133

Almighty power and wisdome that first put forth his arm of strength in making man-kind but the powers of the flesh which is Esau or the rejected one the reprobate steps before by permission and gets the government of the Kingdom man-kind first and he is suffered to raign till Christ supplant him and takes both birth-right and blessing from him Or rather takes possession of his own Right and Kingdom man-kind for he appeared first and so by the law of equity and reason he is the elder brother though Esau or the powers of the flesh got the dominion to rule in the Creation by a violence which the wisdom and power of the spirit suffered and ordained to be This second man is the spirituall man that judges all things according to the law of equity and reason in moderation and love to all he is not a talker but an actour of Righteousnesse But the man of the flesh which would be counted an Angel of light cannot judge any thing in righteousnesse for all his judgement and justice is selfish and confined to particular ends not to the publick safety and preservation he is a great Preacher and talker of righteous things but no actour of righteousnesse or if he do it is very slowly it is when Iacob over-powers him his judgement is hasty unadvised rashnesse at randome hap hazard right or wrong he knows not And sometime he is moderate for by ends to himself and sometimes full of bitter censures to hurt others CHAP. VI THe man of the flesh judges it a righteous thing That some men that are cloathed with the objects of the earth and so called rich men whether it be got by right or wrong should be Magistrates to rule over the poor and that the poor should be servants nay rather slaves to the rich But the spiritual man which is Christ doth judge according to the light of equity and reason That al man-kinde ought to have a quiet substance and freedome to live upon earth and that there shal be no bond-man nor begger in all his holy mountaine Man-kinde was made to live in the freedome of the spirit not under the bondage of the flesh though the lordly flesh hath got a power for a time as I said before for every one was made to be a Lord over the Creation of the Earth Cattle Fish Fowl Grasse Trees not any one to be a bond-slave and a beggar under the Creation of his own kinde That so every one living in freedome and love in the strength of the Law of Righteousnesse in him not under straits of poverty nor bondage of tyranny one to another might al rejoyce together in Righteousnesse and so glorifiie their Maker for suerly this much dishnoured the Maker of all men that some men should be oppressing tyrants imprisoning whipping hanging thier fellow creatures men for those very things which those very men themselves are giulty of let mens eyes be opened and it appears clear enough That the punishers have and doe break the law of equity and reason more or as much as those that are punished by them None will be offended at this but the children of Lord Esau the first man flesh which must perish for his unrighteous government for thereby he hath lost himself sold or passed over his birth-right and blessing unto Iacob the King of Righteousnesse that is now rising up to urle according to the pure law of equity and reason And when this King raigns the city that is the heart of every one in whom truth dwels wil rejoyce but while the man of unrighteosunesse raigns in and over man-kinde truly every body wee see is filled with sorrow and complainings and it is not without cause As the powers and wisdome of the flesh hath filled the earth with injustice oppression and complainings by mowing the earth into the hands of a few covetous unrighteous men who assumes a lordship over others declaring themselves thereby to be men of the basest spirits Even so when the spreading power of wisdome and truth fils the earth man-kinde hee wil take off that bondage and gives a universall liberty and there shal be no more complainings against oppression poverty or injustice When every son and daughter shall be made comfortable to that one body of Jesus the anointed and the same power rules in them as in him every one according to their measure the oppression shall cease and the rising up of this universal power shal destroy and subdue the selfish power But this is not done by the hands of a few or by unrighteous men that would pul the tyrannical government out of other mens hands and keep it in their own heart as we feel this to be a burden of our age But it is done by the universall spreading of the divine power which is Christ in mankind making them all to act in one spirit and in and after one law of reason and equity And when this universall power of Righteousnesse is spread in the earth it shall destroy Babylon the great City of fleshy confusion in one hour that is he will pull the Kingdome and Government of the world out of the hands of tyrannicall unseasonable acting flesh and give the lands and riches that covetous unrighteous men hath hoarded up within their own selfish power into the hands of spirituall Israel that so there may be no complainings no burdens nor no poor in Canaan but that it may be a Land flowing with milke and honey plenty of all things every one walking righteously in the Creation one to another according to the law of equity and reason as it was in the beginning And as Babylon measured out to others so that it shall be measured to him again And suerly as the Scriptures threaten misery to rich men bidding them Howl and weep for their gold and silver is cankered and the rust thereof cries unto heaven for vengeance against them and the like Suerly all those threatnings shal be materially fullfiled for they shall be turned out of all and their riches given to a people that wil bring forth better f●uit and such as they have oppressed shall inherit the Land The rich man tels the poor that they ofend Reasons law if they take forth the rich I am sure it is a breach in that Law in the rich to have plenty by them and yet wil see their fellow creatures men and women to starve for want Reason requires that every man should live upon the increase of the earth comfortably though covetousnesse ●ights against Reasons law The rich doth lock up the treasures of the earth and hardens their hearts against the poor The poor are those in whom the blessing lies for they first receive the Gospel and their gifts of love and tendernesse one to preserve another shall be the condemnation of the rich And secondly the inheritances of the rich shall be given to those poor and there shall be no beggar in Israel And

Justice And is not God the Authour of that wrath As 〈◊〉 is said Is there any evil in the Citie and the Lord hath not done it I answer This is warily to be understood left we dishonour the Lord in making him the Authour of the creatures misery as one of late in his Pulpit an Universitie man in my hearing did relate and by his multitude of words darkned knowledge mightily therefore I shall deliver what I have received concerning this First know that there is mention of three Gods in the Scriptures 1. The Magistrate I said ye are gods 2. The Devil The god of this world hath blinded your eyes 3. The King of Righteousnesse is called God The Lord God omnipotent reigns Now the Magistracie is ruling power called God by their righteous Government a Kingdom may be kept in peace but by their unrighteous Government they trouble every body and the people may say Thou O our God hast destroyed us Secondly The devil or the powers of the flesh in every man and woman is a ruling power called god that brings misery to every body and corrupts the whole Creation fire water earth and air 1. By drawing the Creature into unreasonable wayes which wayes and works 2. Becomes the creatures own tormentours when by the light of the Sun of Righteousnesse man is made to see himself for all mens sorrows are but the risings up of their own works against themselves Therefore people may say to the devil or their unrighteous flesh O thou our God thou hast destroyed 〈◊〉 thou hast deceived us O god thou promisedst peace and afterwards writest bitter things against us Our own works are our tormenting devils Then thirdly The King of Righteousnesse is the ruling power called God but he is not the Authour of the creatures misery for his dealing with unrighteous flesh is two-fold which is the righteous Justice and Judgement of the King First he suffers man to take his own course and to act his own will and to follow his own l●sts letting him alone and permitting him a time to do what he will for wise proud and covetous flesh thinks himself to be a god or an Angel of light and that his wisdom and power is the onely power And now if the righteous King should not give him this libertie he would say he had wrong done him therefore Reason lets him have his will to act his principles that when the time comes that he shall be made to see himself and his works he may be left without excuse This declares the Almighty power of patience love and meekness in the King towards his creature that he can suffer himself to be a servant to that cursed power in the flesh to this end that he may take that fleshly wisdom in his craft destroy that curse and save his creature man from that bondage That after that man hath had trial of his own wisdom and power of his flesh and finds it a devil and that there is no blessing in it he may then come to lie down in the wisdom and power of the King of Righteousnesse in rest and peace Secondly In the solnesse of time that is when all flesh hath corrupted his wayes then the King or Sun of Righteousnesse arises up and lets man in his light to see himself to be a devil The King layes no hand upon him but lets him see himself and the mans own works become the devils that torment him If a man have sore eyes and look in the Sun his eyes smart now that smart comes not from the Sun but the venome of the eyes rises up torments it self when the Sun cause it to see or feel it self This declares the wisdom power Justice and holinesse of the King that when he rises he can make flesh to see it self and needs do no more but shine forth and burn in his brightnesse by whom that curse or drosse in the flesh is consumed and cannot stand therefore if flesh were righteous it would stand before the righteous Law but seeing it cannot stand it appears unrighteous to be a devil and no Angel of light And this method of the Father brings glory to his own name that he alone is the one almighty power and wisdom This is Justice in the righteous Judge and shews him to be the pure Law and flesh kils and torments it self I but when the waters drowned the world and the fire burned Sodom this was a Judgement more then letting flesh see his own unrighteousnesse I answer The overflowings of the water in that manner to drown and the breakings forth of the fire in that manner to burn waste and consume were the rising up of the curse that was in the water and fire to destroy the unrighteous flesh of man that caused it For when the Father made the Creation he made all Elements to uphold one another in Righteousnesse and one creature to preserve another therefore it was all very good But this rising up of creatures to destroy one another is the curse which unrighteous man that is the Lord of the creatures hath brought upon the Creation I but how comes the fire and water to break forth to destroy at some times more then another I answer When the fulnesse of time comes that earth begins to stink with the abominations of man then the Father arises up and shews himself within the Creation of fire water earth and air And the curse that is brought upon this by man cannot abide the presence of the Lord but rises up and runs together into a head to oppose the Lord but indeed it destroyes man that was the cause of it So that the risings up of waters and the breakings forth of fire to waste and destroy are but that curse or the works of mans own hands that rise up and run together to destroy their Maker and torment him that brought the curse sorth While water and fire are useful the blessing of the Creation lies in them and comes from them to preserve the Creation for the glory of the Maker But when they break forth to waste and destroy this is the curse the burden of the Creation that breaks forth to destroy unrighteous man that caused it And it doth break forth when the Lord appears in the Creation as I said when the Sun shines the venome in sore eyes rises up and smarts So when righteous power begins to move in the fire and upon the water the curse that is in these Elements arises up and disturbs the Creation to the destruction of man whose work it is I but one man kils another by wars and such like Is not this the wrath of God upon them I answer in the same manner as I did before for as the cursed flesh in one body torments it self when he sees himself a devil So multitudes of bodies of men are still but one flesh or one earth And when the Sun of Righteousnesse begins to shine into this earth the venimous parts