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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95059	The true Levellers standard advanced: or, The state of community opened, and presented to the sons of men. By William Everard, Iohn Palmer, Iohn South, Iohn Courton. William Taylor, Christopher Clifford, Iohn Barker. Ferrard Winstanley, Richard Goodgroome, Thomas Starre, William Hoggrill, Robert Sawyer, Thomas Eder, Henry Bickerstaffe, Iohn Taylor, &c. Beginning to plant and manure the waste land upon George-Hill, in the parish of Walton, in the county of Surrey.	Everard, William.	1649 (1649)	Wing T2716; Thomason E552_5; ESTC R205713	15,458	23

while we are about his work and we have bin made to sit down and count what it may cost us in undertaking such a work and we know the full sum and are resolved to give all that we have to buy this Pearl which we see in the Field For by this work we are assured and Reason makes it appear to others that Bondage shall be removed Tears wiped away and all poor People by their righteous Labours shall be relieved and freed from Poverty and Straits For in this work of Restoration there will be no begger in Israel For surely if there was no Begger in literal Israel there shall be no Begger in Spiritual Israel the Anti-type much more Sixtly We have another encouragement that this work shall prosper Because we see it to be the fulness of Time For whereas the Son of Man the Lamb came in the Fulness of Time that is when the Powers of the World made the Earth stink every where by oppressing others under pretense of worshiping the Spirit rightly by the Types and Sacrifices of Moses law the Priests were grown so abominably Covetous and Proud that they made the People to loath the Sacrifices and to groan under the Burden of their Oppressing Pride Even so now in this Age of the World that the Spirit is upon his Resurrection it is likewise the Fulness of Time in a higher measure For whereas the People generally in former times did rest upon the very observation of the Sacrifices and Types but persecuted the very name of the Spirit Even so now Professors do rest upon the bare observation of Forms and Customs and pretend to the Spirit and yet persecutes grudges and hates the power of the Spirit and as it was then so it is now All places stink with the abomination of Self-seeking Teachers and Rulers For do not I see that every one Preacheth for money Counsels for money and fights for money to maintain particular Interests And none of these three that pretend to give liberty to the Creation do give liberty to the Creation neither can they for they are enemies to universal liberty So that the earth stinks with their Hypocrisie Covetousness Envie sottish Ignorance and Pride The common People are filled with good words from Pulpits and Councel Tables but no good Deeds For they wait and wait for good and for deliverances but none comes While they wait for liberty behold greater bondage comes insteed of it and burdens oppressions taskmasters from Sessions Lawyers Bayliffs of Hundreds Committees Impropriators Clerks of Peace and Courts of Justice so called does whip the People by old Popish weather-beaten Laws that were excommunicate long ago by Covenants Oaths and Ordinances but as yet are not cast out but rather taken in again to be standing pricks in our eys and thorns in our side Beside Free-quartering Plundering by some rude Souldiers and the abounding of Taxes which if they were equally divided among the Souldiery and not too much bagd up in the hands of particular Officers and Trustees there would be less complaining Besides the horrible cheating that is in Buying and Selling and the cruel Oppression of Landlords and lords of Mannours and quarter Sessions Many that have bin good House-keepers as we say cannot live but are forced to turn Souldiers and so to fight to uphold the Curse or else live in great straits and beggery O you A-dams of the Earth you have rich Clothing full Bellies have your Honors and Ease and you puffe at this But know thou stout-hearted Pharaoh that the day of Judgement is begun and it will reach to thee ere long Jacob hath bin very low but he is rising and will rise do the worst thou canst and the poor people whom thou oppresses shall be the Saviours of the land For the blessing is rising up in them and thou shalt be ashamed And thus you Powers of England and of the whole World we have declared our Reasons why we have begun to dig upon George hill in Surrey One thing I must tell you more in the close which I received in voce likewise at another time and when I received it my ey was set towards you The words were these Let Israel go free Surely as Israel lay 430. yeers under Pharaohs bondage before Moses was sent to fetch them out Even so Israel the Elect Spirit spread in Sons and Daughters hath lain three times so long already which is the Anti-type under your Bondage and cruel Task-masters But now the time of Deliverance is come and thou proud Esau and stout-hearted Covetousness thou must come down and be lord of the Creation no longer For now the King of Righteousness is rising to Rule In and Over the Earth Therefore if thou wilt find Mercy Let Israel go Free break in pieces quickly the Band of particular Propriety dis-own this oppressing Murder Oppression and Thievery of Buying and Selling of Land owning of landlords and paying of Rents and give thy Free Consent to make the Earth a Common Treasury without grumbling That the yonger Brethren may live comfortably upon Earth as well as the Elder That all may enjoy the benefit of their Creation And hereby thou wilt Honour thy Father and thy Mother Thy Father which is the Spirit of Community that made all and that dwels in all Thy Mother which is the Earth that brought us all forth That as a true Mother loves all her Children Therefore do not thou hinder the Mother Earth from giving all her Children suck by thy Inclosing it into particular hands and holding up that cursed Bondage of Inclosure by thy Power And then thou wilt repent of thy Theft in maintaining the breach of the eight Commandment by Stealing the Land as I say from thy fellow-creatures or yonger Brothers which thou and all thy landlords have and do live in the breach of that Commandment Then thou wilt Own no other God or Ruling Power but One which is the King of Righteousness ruling and dwelling in every one and in the whole whereas now thou hast many gods For Covetousness is thy God Pride and an Envious murdering Humor to kill one by Prison or Gallows that crosses thee though their cause be pure sound and good reason is thy God Self-love and slavish Fear lest other serve thee as thou hast served them is thy god Hypocrisie Fleshly Imagination that keeps no Promise Covenant nor Protestation is thy God love of Money Honor and Ease is thy God And all these and the like Ruling Powers makes thee Blind and hard-hearted that thou does not nor cannot lay to heart the affliction of others though they dy for want of bread in that rich City undone under your eys Therefore once more Let Israel go Free that the poor may labour the Waste land and suck the Brests of their mother Earth that they starve not And in so doing thou wilt keep the Sabbath day which is a day of Rest sweetly enjoying the Peace of the Spirit of Righteousness and find Peace by living among a people that live in peace this will be a day of Rest which thou never knew yet But I do not entreat thee for thou art not to be intreated but in the Name of the Lord that hath drawn me forth to speak to thee I yea I say I Command thee To let Israel go Free and quietly to gather together into the place where I shall appoint and hold them no longer in bondage And thou A-dam that holds the Earth in slavery under the Curse If thou wilt not let Israel go Free for thou being the Antitype will be more stout and lusty then the Egyptian Pharoah of old who was thy Type Then know That whereas I brought Ten Plagues upon him I will Multiply my Plagues upon thee till I make thee weary and miserably ashamed And I will bring out my People with a strong hand and stretched out arme Thus we have discharged our Souls in declaring the Cause of our Digging upon George-Hill in Surrey that the Great Councel and Army of the Land may take notice of it That there is no intent of Tumult or Fighting but only to get Bread to eat with the sweat of our brows working together in righteousness and eating the blessings of the Earth in peace And if any of you that are the great Ones of the Earth that have been bred tenderly and cannot work do bring in your Stock into this Common Treasury as an Offering to the work of Righteousness we will work for you and you shall receive as we receive But if you will not but Pharoah like cry Who is the Lord that we should obey him and endeavour to Oppose then know That he that delivered Israel from Pharoah of old is the same Power still in whom we trust and whom we serve for this Conquest over thee shall be got not by Sword or Weapon but by my Spirit saith the Lord of Hosts William Everard Iohn Palmer Iohn South Iohn Courton William Taylor Christopher Clifford Iohn Barker Ferrard Winstanley Richard Goodgroome Thomas Starre William Hoggrill Robert Sawyer Thomas Eder Henry Bickerstaffe Iohn Taylor c. 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work in righteousness and lay the Foundation of making the Earth a Common Treasury for All both Rich and Poor That every one that is born in the Land may be fed by the Earth his Mother that brought him forth according to the Reason that rules in the Creation Not Inclosing any part into any particular hand but all as one man working together and feeding together as Sons of one Father members of one Family not one Lording over another but all looking upon each other as equals in the Creation so that our Maker may be glorified in the work of his own hands and that every one may see he is no respecter of Persons but equally loves his whole Creation and hates nothing but the Serpent which is Covetousness branching forth into selvish Imagination Pride Envie Hypocrisie Vncleanness all seeking the ease and honor of flesh and fighting against the Spirit Reason that made the Creation for that is the Corruption the Curse the Devil the Father of Lies Death and Bondage that Serpent and Dragon that the Creation is to be delivered from And we are moved hereunto for that Reason and others which hath been shewed us both by Vision Voyce and Revelation For it is shewed us That so long as we or any other doth own the Earth to be the peculier Interest of Lords and Landlords and not common to others as well as them we own the Curse and holds the Creation under bondage and so long as we or any other doth own Landlords and Tennants for one to call the Land his or another to hire it of him or for one to give hire and for another to work for hire this is to dishonour the work of Creation as if the righteous Creator should have respect to persons and therefore made the Earth for some and not for all And so long as we or any other maintain this Civil Propriety we consent still to hold the Creation down under that bondage it groans under and so we should hinder the work of Restoration and sin against Light that is given into us and so through the fear of the flesh man lose our peace And that this Civil Propriety is the Curse is manifest thus Those that Buy and Sell Land and are landlords have got it either by Oppression or Murther or Theft and all landlords lives in the breach of the Seventh and Eighth Commandements Thou shalt not steal nor kill First by their Oppression They have by their subtle imaginary and covetous wit got the plain-hearted poor or yonger Brethren to work for them for small wages and by their work have got a great increase for the poor by their labour lifts up Tyrants to rule over them or else by their covetous wit they have out-reached the plain-hearted in Buying and Selling and thereby inriched themselves but impoverished others or else by their subtile wit having been a lifter up into places of Trust have inforced people to pay Money for a Publick use but have divided much of it into their private purses and so have got it by Oppression Then Secondly for Murther They have by subtile wit and power pretended to preserve a people in safety by the power of the Sword and what by large Pay much Free-quarter and other Booties which they call their own they get much Monies and with this they buy Land and become landlords and if once Landlords then they rise to be Justices Rulers and State Governours as experience shewes But all this is but a bloudy and subtile Thee very countenanced by a Law that Covetousness made and is a breach of the Seventh Commandement Thou shalt not kill And likewise Thirdly a breach of the Eighth Commandement Thou shalt not steal but these landlords have thus stoln the Earth from their fellow Creatures that have an equal share with them by the Law of Reason and Creation as well as they And such as these rise up to be rich in the objects of the Earth then by their plausible words of flattery to the plain-hearted people whom they deceive and that lies under confusion and blindness They are lifted up to be Teachers Rulers and Law makers over them that lifted them up as if the Earth were made peculiarly for them and not for others weal If you cast your eye a little backward you shall see That this outward Teaching and Ruling power is the Babylonish yoke laid upon Israel of old under Nebuchadnezzar and so Successively from that time the Conquering Enemy have still laid these yokes upon Israel to keep Jacob down And the last enslaving Conquest which the Enemy got over Israel was the Norman over England and from that time Kings Lords Judges Justices Bayliffs and the violent bitter people that are Free-holders are and have been Successively The Norman Bastard William himself his Colonels Captains inferiour Officers and Common Souldiers who still are from that time to this day in pursuite of that victory Imprisoning Robbing and killing the poor enslaved English Israelites And this appears cleer For when any Trustee or State Officer is to be Chosen The Free-holders or Landlords must be the Chusers who are the Norman Common Souldiers spred abroad in the Land And who must be Chosen but some very rich man who is the Successor of the Norman Colonels or high Officers And to what end have they been thus Chosen but to Establish that Norman power the more forcibly over the enslaved English and to beat them down again when as they gather heart to seek for Liberty For what are all those Binding and Restraining Laws that have been made from one Age to another since that Conquest and are still upheld by Furie over the People I say What are they but the Cords Bands Manacles and Yokes that the enslaved English like Newgate Prisoners wears upon their hands and legs as they walk the streets by which those Norman Oppressors and these their Successors from Age to Age have enslaved the poor People by killed their yonger Brother and would not suffer Iacob to arise O what mighty Delusion do you who are the powers of England live in That while you pretend to throw down that Norman yoke and Babylonish power and have promised to make the groaning people of England a Free People yet you still lift up that Norman yoke and slavish Tyranny and holds the People as much in bondage as the Bastard Conquerour himself and his Councel of War Take notice That England is not a Free People till the Poor that have no Land have a free allowance to dig and labour the Commons and so live as Comfortably as the Landlords that live in their Inclosures For the People have not laid out their Monies and shed their Bloud that their Landlords the Norman power should still have its liberty and freedom to rule in Tyranny in his Lords landlords Judges Justices Bayliffs and State Servants but that the Oppressed might be set Free Prison doors opened and the Poor peoples hearts comforted by