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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

call this ●lasphem●e to s●● Christ is in you thoug● the Scriptures which they professe say the same Know you not that Christ is in you And the Kingdom of Heaven is in you And they that worship the Father must worship him in spirit within and in truth of action without and fulfilling the Law and the Prophets Love your enemies and doe as you would be done by in actions and not in words only CHAP. V. What the living Soule Man is that is called very g●●d IN the body of mankinde and indeed in every single body there are three particulars necessary to be knowne without which no man can know himselfe let him say what he will The first is the Creature or the living Soule which before the curse defil●s it is very good and this was the Image of God or of the righteous spirit in flesh or first Adam And this living soule is the heaven in which the ●attell is fought between the curse and the blessing Micaell and the Dragon And this living soule is the wax fi●ted to receive either the impression of the curse and so prove disobedient to righteousnesse or the impression of the blessing and so prove obedient to righteousnesse Secondly there is the mysterie of iniquitie or the power of deceit and this is the God of the world or Prince of darknesse that deceives the liv●ng ●oule fi●st and takes possession and this in one man is the Image or rather nature of that one power of darknesse or Devill that is spread abroad through the Creation to cover over or keep downe the blessing or Seed of Life from rising Thirdly the Life of God or of the righteous spirit rising up in the living soule and casting the curse or power of darknesse out and bringing Mankinde into peace and this is the second Adam or the Lord from Heaven Now this living soule Mankinde is a Beast and the King of Beasts for the life of the five Sences onely is the life of the Beast And this Beast in every one as well as in the whole is to raigne for a time times and dividing of time before mankinde ca● b● united to the life of the righteous God and made one with that one spirit of universall Love As Jesus Christ prayd Father I pray that they may be one in us as thou oh Father art one in me and I in thee they were not united yet The Image of God in flesh dyed and was put out by darknesse But the Seed or spirit of true life rising up from under that darknesse dies no more but lives for ever This spirit is the tree of Life Therefore you that say you know but one power be not deceived for if this one power of righteousnesse which is the tree of Life rule in you then you are new creatures indeed you are one with the Father and the Sonne And th●n you shall know death no more that is you shall not live ●● opposition to the spirit of righteousnesse no more neither in thought word nor deed And then all sorrow and teares shall flie away likewise and you shall be at rest which is the day of the Lord or the Light or day time of Mankinde Darknesse is now swallowed up and gone But if selfish actions and selfish Principles live in their strength in you still if Imagination be Ruler truly then that one power is but the power of darknesse to whom you are in bondage and you are not yet past the combate the Dragon is not yet cast out and you must know a fuller resurrection before you can sit downe in peace Some of you have g●t a speech That those that see two powers within themselves of darknesse and Light Love and Envy sorrow and comfort striving together sees with two eyes 〈◊〉 you may say you see every thing and power 〈◊〉 a single eye and nothing you see evill but 〈◊〉 ●●●gs and actions are good and as they must 〈◊〉 Surely this is well if you become all of you tha● sp●●k● these words to eat of that Tree of 〈◊〉 for my part I le not condemne you I can r●jo●ce to see the Resurrection of Christ in any but I must watch some of you to see if your conversations be so universally filled with Love as shall make the darke world startle and then I ca● say of a truth Christ is risen indeed in you If your owne eye be darke that is if darknesse rule your whole body then all the actions of your body towards others are in darknesse and builders up of selfishnesse which is the one power you yet live in But if your eye be truly single and full of Light then the Light power wholly rules in you and the actions of your outward man will be full of Light and Life and Love towards every single branch of the whole Creation But some may say explaine these three particulars in mankinde that we may know them distinctly one from another I Answer I shall readily doe it The first particular is the living Soule or that estate of simple plaine heartednesse which hath the Life of the five Sences only only and by that Life preserves that single body or proprieties But the Life of the Spirit in sound reason lives not yet in the Sences for pure Reason lives llke a corne or wheate under the clods of Earth or Beast and is not yet risen up to rule as King This plaine hearted state is set in the midst of many objects tempting him like the Serpent and it is open ●o many crosses and teares like the tender grasse that is soone bruised by the foot of the oxe it hath not the true rest of Christ in it though there be much rest and peace in it for it is changeable This is such a state that though there be selfe-Love yet there is no hatred towards others in it but a quiet content to let others live too As a childe though he love himselfe the propriety of a Beast so to doe yet he envies not others for Envie Pride Covetousnesse Hypocrisie rash murdering anger hath not yet defiled the Earth The man is plaine honest hearted even Innocent Aam Like Nathanaell in whom there was no guile and yet Nathana●ll knew not Christ that Anoyn●ing spirit as yet ruled not as King in him for he was open to temptation and change and many teares Like Peter a man of the same plaine hearted temper full of Love to Christ and others yet selfish he was without guile and was loving without knowledge therefore open to temptation and cha●ge and teares Now though Christ Commended Nathanael and prayed for Peter that his faith or strength might not fayle him yet they were both strangers to the Spirit which was given them afterwards And as Christ told his Disciples I have chosen you twelve and one of you is a Devill that is eleven of you are plaine honest simpl● hearts in whom there is no guile you have sincerely in love to me forsaken all your

his company As there are time times and dividing of times alloted to the reigne of the Beast in outward Government which is first the power of Magistracie medling with matters of Conscience in restraining or punishing before the universall Bishop was raised this is the first time Then the time of universall Bishop till reformed Episcopacy came in this is the second time Then the time of reformed Episcopacie till the variety of Independant and Presbyterian Churches or State-Government came in is the third time and these two latter are called times And now England is under the dividing of time and it is a fore-runner to the rest of the Nations and this is the Image of the Beast and this is the variety of Churches and differences in Rel●gion that is amongst men every one pleading his priviledge or else it is called the dividing of time in regard the Government of the Land is taken out of the hands of one man and put into the hands of many this is the dividing of time or the halfe day of the Beast in respect of outward government Even so there are time times and dividing of time within the heart of man which is the occasion of that outward division of times The first time is the state of simple plaine heartednesse or Innocencie when the five Sences acts in their owne light which is the pure light of a Beast but knowes not the power of the Seed or of the creating spirit but is a stranger to the spirit and yet this state is the Image of the spirit for this is wise and loving and just but not Wisdome Love and Justice it selfe and being tempted it breaks out into folly envie and unjustice and this is the first time of the Beasts reigne within a man Then the pleasure of sinne enters or a league is made betweene that living Earth and outward objects and the man being deceived lookes altogether without him for good for pleasure and for content and followes all the pleasures of his five Sences with greedinesse and here he would be a ruler and some body over others and in this estate man doth what he will and his heart never smites him for it he can lie and cheat and whore and oppresse others and thinks all is good for nothing troubles him this is the state of prodigality or presumption And this is Esau the hairy mans Kingdome And this is the first step of his fall eating the Aple Then there followes a time of trouble of minde arising for that pleasure of selfe-seeking delight and this is called trouble for mispent time whereby he meets with many rubs in his good name in his health of body and in his outward livelihood amongst fellow-creatures and now he begins to rebate of his wildnesse and follow and the Beast or sensitive power begins to be a little tamer and more moderate yet Covetousnesse that Beast reignes still and that with more force within yet this is a cooler time of the day then the former was for he begins to consider what he doth yet here is no rest and this is the third time and so these two latter degrees makes times this is the second step of his fall Then comes in the dividing of time within a man and this is when the Law in the members fights against the Law of the minde when a man sees his folly and the bondage of his nature he sees himselfe a prisoner to his Lusts and this light in him strives against darknesse in him he sees Pride striveing against Humility Envy against Love contentednesse against anger uncleannesse of flesh against chastity sorrow against comfort and so cries out Oh wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death or bondage to which I am ● slave this is the third step of mans darknesse Well this is the dividing of time within thee this 〈◊〉 the time of the battell within thee between Michaell the Prince of Peace and the red Dragon the selfish imaginary covetous murdering power there is no quiet rest in this estate neither nay this dividing of time is the sharpest and hottest time And now one step further in the first degree of time and then the man enters into rest And this is when the Seed or blessing in thee kills that Serpent and casts him out and takes possession of thee and rules in righteousnesse in thee for now all enemies are subdued under the Anoyntings feet and he now delivers up the Kingdome to his Father who is the one spirit of righteousnesse and peace in whom there is no sorrow And this God or Almighty ruler becomes all in all the alone King in that living Soule or Earth or the five living Sences Now this spirit of freedome being rising up in some already in part assures the Creation and gives those bodies as pledges that he will rise up in the whole and restore all mankinde to himselfe And thus those three particulars in mankinde is considered first the pure creation of the Living soule the single life of the five Sences which is called the Earth Oh Earth Earth Earth c. Secondly the curse that hath taken mankinde or this living Earth prisoner and this is the power of darknesse called sinne or bondage and this is called likewise flesh or carnall man If you by the Spirit mortisie the deeds of the flesh you shall live Now the created flesh is not to be mortified or killed by us but preserved therefore the curse therein is called flesh and deeds of the flesh because it is a meere selfish power that would have ease and honour and would be counted a God and would rule over all to the enslaving of all to himselfe this is the reprobate that shall have no peace for all peace shall be taken from this flesh Thirdly the blessing who is the seed of Life or Christ the righteous and rationall spirit arising up to rule and treading unreasonablenesse under his feet this is the restorer or Saviour of the captived or the imprisoned Earth which sets mankinde free from bondage within himselfe And when this power riseth up to rule he doth not rule to enslave others to him by the murthering sword but he drawes all men in Love to him and the union and communion of Love by him is established in and among the Creation And thus you see there are time times and dividing of time within the heart and though you become to the dividing of time yet you are not come to the Mount of God to true rest till dividing of time run his course likewise But yet here is great comfort to burdened soules that lies groning under the darknesse of this divideing of time within them and that are mightily opprest by men that rules in darknesse and oppression over them To you I say rejoyce your Redeemer is come he rides upon the clouds and he will speedily appeare for your deliverance as he hath done for some of your brethren already who