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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

that ownes or tenders thee Well saith the soule this is an evill time and then saith Imaginary feare filling the soule with sorrow oh that this body had never been borne I would I had dyed in the wombe If this be the happinesse of a man I would I had been a Bird a Beast or some other creature While I had no care of doing rightly I could live I had friends I had peace But since I began to doe as I would be done by friends now stands a farre off every body hates me and I am open to all misrey does righteousnesse bring thee to this oh miserable wretch This now is a battell of another nature then the former was for in the first battell the Imaginary flesh was lofty and stout and full of presumption selfe-conceit scoffes jeeres Envie vaporing and secret subtilty laughing in his sleave as we say at the wayes of the Spirit of Life But now he is in another temper he is furnished with the weapons of slavish feare evill surmising sense of misery sometimes angry sometimes ready to dispaire and to curse the day of his birth his soule takes pleasure in nothing without and yet hath no peace within And in this battell likewise God and man flesh and spirit are separated there is no sweet agreement The selfish Imagination would be a God still and fight strongly to keep the tottering kingdome and will not leave off till the Spirit of burning ● who is consuming fire Even God himselfe come and fire Imagination out of all his strong holds and with a strong power redeeme the imprisoned Earth from his presumptuous and dispairing bondage Though there was a parley before between flesh and spirit the man and his righteous God In the coole of the day while the living Earth saw himselfe a little naked and was under a little sence of trouble and feare yet the Serpent Im 〈◊〉 is not conquered by a sle●ght parley but by a stronger contest for after this parley within himselfe man is cast out of himselfe that is out of the garden to seeke content in outward objects as in riches friends wife children and the like and then the battell grows hot againe For if our true peace and rest lie in objects and in a Law without as Imagination would have it then the Spirit is not within the Creation but without And if so then there may be places found where the Spirit is not and then God is not every where and so the words of Jesus Christ were not true when he said the Kingdome of Heaven is within you and the word is nigh you even in your mouth and in your heart and as the Apostle said God the Father is above all and through all and in you all Eph. 4.6 But the Spirit is within for the Creation is his clothing God was in Christ reconciling the world or falne Earth to himselfe he was not without him in objects offering peace but he was within drawing him from the deceitfulnesse of objects that fades away to looke for rest and peace only within therefore it is said Christ is our rest that is the Anointing within is our rest who teacheth us all things and le●ds us into all truth And by this Relation you see here is the living soule mankind then here is the fall of mankinde Then here is the rising or restoring of Mankinde And that which hath by Imagination or Judas Ministry been held sorth to us to be without us as Adam the Serpent the Garden the Tree of Knowledge of Good and evill and the Tree of Life and the fall of Man and promise of redemption all to be without yet all these are within the heart of man clearly And whether there was any such outward things or no it matters not much if thou seest all within this will be thy life Therefore in this which followes I shall write of these three particulars The Living Soule which is pure nature that was called very good Then the Serpent or curse which is the Imaginary power of darknesse or mans fall Then the Seed of life the blessing called the restoring power delivering mankinde from that bondage and setting him downe in rest and peace within himselfe CHAP. III. What the Tree of Life is ANd when Mankinde begins to enter into himselfe againe and to enjoy rest and peace and Life within which is the resurrection of Christ then woe woe woe to the imaginary power that rules the world he shall be shaken with terror and fall and burst a sunder for this is Iudas and the Pharisees that have killed Christ all along But now Christ or the Anoynting is arising up in sonnes and daughters they must dye Therefore whatsoever government is set up by Imagination shall be throwne downe For every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted shall be rooted out Surely then there is a foure-fold power much Idolized and doted upon by covetous flesh which must be shaken to pieces And woe woe woe to the Inhabitants of the Earth to those that live in or are the upholders of those powers The first is the Imaginary teaching power called hear-say booke studying Vniversity Divinity which indeed is Iudas Ministry for this cries hayle Master to the Spirit and seemes to kisse him in Love in outward shew by preaching of him and by long prayers to him But betrayes him into the hand of the selfish power This power or ministrie must destroy himselfe as Iudas did and so he doth for the divisions within the publick Ministry makes him burst asunder and all his inward bowells of Covetousnesse Pride selfe-seeking evill surmisings gruding hypocrisie seeking to please men more then the righteous power and all their close envy is discovered Then secondly The Imaginary Kingly power who by the power of the sword and successive con●uests 〈…〉 one part of Mankinde to rule 〈…〉 p●e●ending to keep the Creation in 〈…〉 yet proves a selfe-upholder By murder and 〈…〉 others under foo● this power takes ease honour falnesse of the Earth to himselfe by the sword and rules over the labours and bodies of others at his will and prerogative Thus power m●st be shaken to pieces Therefore you K●ngs and Monarchs and State rulers that upholds kingly Authority in your hands come in and kisse the Sonne betimes it is not long before he will more gloriously appeare to shake terribly the Nations not England only but all Nations for the dominion of Christ is to reach from East to West from North to South and of his Kingdome there shall be no end Thirdly the imaginary Judicature called the Law of Justice which indeed is but the declarative will of Conquerours how they will have their Subjects be ruled And this pretends to keep all in peace and yet it is the very support of Envie hardnesse of heart and unrighteous covetousnesse Therefore woe to you Lawyers that bindes heavie burdens upon mens shoulders which you your selves will not touch with the least of your fingers Fourthly