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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

Midianites did they sheathed their swords one in anothers bowells while Israell looked on and at last tooke the spoyle So shall kingly power doe in his severall governments by the sword they shall dash one against another Time shall dash against times and times shall dash against the dividing of time and the divisions in the dividing of time shall destroy him till the Creation be cleansed of these plagues and that curse which hath destroyed the Earth shall now in the period of time destroy himselfe And this makes way for Christ the universal Love to take the Kingdome and the dominion of the whole Earth Therefore you souldiers you may see the end o● your trade it is a destroyer and shall be destroye● by it selfe and surely you shall finde no true peace herein No no there is no peace and rest but i● Christ the Saviour your trade upholds the murderer or the Devill Now the other three Beasts who are Clergy Law and Buying and Selling these rise up by craft supported by the kingly power And the chiefe Beast is the Clergy he bred all the other He is a King understanding darke sayings and he shall by craft deceive many the other Beasts are this Beasts sons he bred them For this teaching Art first bids mankinde to looke abroad for a teacher and a ruler and to look abroad for Justice and content and when he had deceived them so to doe then he put mankinde upon buying and selling of the Earth and her fruits and so by that meanes the Creation is divided and Mankinde is put upon an Art to cheat and burden himselfe for the Earth ought to remaine a standing portion to them and their children successively by the righteous Law of Creation Then this teaching Art found out the Law calling it the Law of Justice a very good name to cover his knavery for he is a mighty Beast with great teeth and is a mighty devourer of men he eates up all that comes within his power for this Proverb is true goe to Law and none shall get but the Lawyer The Law is the Fox poore men are the geesse he pulls of their feathers and feeds upon them These foure Beasts are the Fountaines of Tyranny to the Creation they are of a fruitfull generation one begetting divers Beasts that are of mighty devouring natures But the most dreadfull and terrible Beast is the Clergy Power for though the other three raised him up by action yet this Imaginary learned Beast raised them up by policie for selfe ends For this stamped the other under foot saith Daniell And is not this true hath not the Clergy ruled over kingly Power Law and buying and selling and brought all under his Command for at the first he was onely a teaching Power and then it was a Beast differing from the rest yet he stamped them under foot and all the other had their strength and succour from him by his teaching and imaginary instruction Out of this teaching Beast rise up ten hornes or the branching forth of his strength in ten particulars Five fighting against the powers of the Creation Hearing Seeing Tasting Smelling Feeling which is called the body of the living soule that is very good And five fighting against the powers of righteousnesse which is Vnderstanding Will Affection Joy and Peace which is called the Seed and making war against him and so darking Heaven and Earth This is he that restraines the liberty of the outward man not suffering him to have a free enjoyment of his portion in the Earth making such actions to be sinne which the righteous creating Spirit made not a sinne And he restraines thereby the liberty of the Inward man not suffering him to act in the liberty of himselfe for he makes a man a sinner for a word and so he sweeps the Stars of Heaven downe with his tayle he darkens Heaven and Earth and defiles body and mind For so long as I must not act according to the freedome of my owne spirit and power within me but must be guided by others without me and punished for such actions which others in the ruling Chare doe in a higher nature then I doe I am then in bondage and my eyes are put out And this is the Covenant that the outward teaching power makes with the branches of Mankinde to put out their owne eyes to see by others telling them none can see but schollars so that this fourth Beast is more dreadfull then the other three for it stamps the other three under foot and rules over all And out of the ten hornes of this Beast rise up another little horne and this is the dominion and rule which the teaching power takes up called Ecclesiasticall power and this little horne was raised by a power that was not his owne for the kingly power puts that dominion and rule into his hands While he remained onely a teaching power he stamped the other under him and overawed others by his deceitfull words But now he hath got a power to rule called Ecclesiasticall power which is the extract of selfish righteousnesse from the seeming righteousnesse of the foure Beasts into one ruling power and by this which was little in the beginning There were three of the first hornes plucked up that is Kingly Power Law and buying and selling for the Little horne or ruling Clergie lifted up himselfe above all these and made these uncover and fall to him he had dominion and power over all these and these were in subjection and afraid and bowed to him He by his teaching lifted up these and these by their acting lifted up him to rule and he by his ruling treads these under his proud covetous feet And this is he who is said to be a King of a fierce countenance understanding darke saying that is mighty but not by his owne power and he shall by craft and power destroy many his rising was in the latter dayes when transgressions were come to the full when people were most blinde by his outward teaching then they easily receive him to be the outward ruler over their soules for now the Sea being bemuddied that is mankinde being mightily deceived he by his learned policy riseth up out of that deceived Sea for all the peeple wandered after him though he sore oppressed them Dan. 8.23 Rev. 13.3 And as the sword which is not his power lifted him up and supports him by forcing the people to pay him tithes for the Law of the Magistrate forces the people to pay them And he being lifted up he made war with the Saints and overcame them for a time times and dividing of time But as he was lifted up by others power through his owne craft Even so he shall be destroyed againe without hand the Sword shall not destroy him he shall be discovered in all his oppressing hypocriticall bewitching knavery by the light and wisdome of the Spirit of Truth that shall rise up out of the Sea of mankinde likewise appearing

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 The righteous Law a government will give to whole mankinde How he should governe all the Earth and therein true peace finde This government is Reason pure who will fill man with Love And wording Justice without deeds is judged by this Dove LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1650. TO All the severall Societies of people called Churches in the Presbyterian Independant or any other forme of Profession in the service of God BRethren and fellow-members of Mankinde This following declaration of the word of Life was a free gift to me from the Father himselfe And I received it not from men when I had writ it I was moved to send it to you immediately but I delayed it by almost a fortnight and thought not of it then one night as I waked out of sleep the voyce was in my very heart and mouth ready to come forth goe send it to the Churches Thereupon I was filled with great Love to you my heart panting with love towards you pittying your condition in that there is a great striving as it were for life among you and yet you lie under the power of death and bondage and knowes not or at least doth not actually hold forth that you know that spirit which in words you seeme to professe You speake and preach of the life of Love But you have not the power of it your verball profession without the pure righteous action shews you generally to be outlandish men of severall Nations under the government of darknesse and that you are not yet the true Inhabitants of the Land of Love Before you live you must die and before you be bound up into one universall body all your particular bodies and societies must be torne to pieces for the true Light is comming now once more not onely to shake the Earth that is Moses worship but Heaven also That which you call Gospell-worship and the Kingdome without shall fall that so the Kingdome within may be established for all your particular Churches are like the inclosures of Land which hedges in some to be heires of Life and hedges out others one saying Christ is here with them Another saying no but he is there with them but truly brethren you shall see and finde that Christ who is the universall power of Love is not confined to parties or private chambers but he is the power of Life Light and Truth now rising up to fill the Earth Mankinde with himselfe Well I have obeyed the voyce and I have sent this to you with a heart free and full of love towards you Some of you will receive this with gentlenesse others will be offended To some it will be refreshing but others will storme and prepare warre against it And the Ishmaelites they will scoffe but be it so yet my Armour is tryed I am sure it will keep off the blow You shall finde I speake of the Garden of Eden which is the spirit of man not the spirit of Beasts And in that Garden there are weeds and hearbs The weeds are these Selfe-Love Pride Envie Covetousnesse after riches honours pleasures Imagination thinking he cannot live in peace unlesse he enjoy this or that outward object And sometimes the joy of envie when he obtaines his end and sometime the sorrow of Covetousnesse when he is crost rules as King in the Garden And the stinking weeds over-spreads the sweet flowers and hearbs which are the lights of the spirit of truth There is likewise the most venemous weed called Hypocrisie attended with evill surmising grudgings speaking and promising nay swearing one thing yet doing another inventing much shew of holinesse to compasse his selfish ends and while he rules King as he doth rule at this day he is assisted with vain glory feare of being disthroned opp●essing others unmercifull carelesse of former promises and engagements persecuting those who doth such things as he promised and vowed to doe whilst he was a servant and such like And as you may call those by the name of weeds so likewise you may call them outlandish men for they are not the true native Inhabitants of the heart but strangers to the righreous spirit And all these with their fellowes make up but one power of darknesse Devill or Father of lies And this power is the night time of mankinde or the absence of the Sonne of righteousnesse from the heart This power is the reprobate which the word of life hath rejected this shall never enter into true rest this is the wicked man or Dragon in you which causes all warres and sortowes and the sonne that causes shame the sonne of bondage which must not abide in the heart for ever but must be cast out Therefore so long as you labour under this selfish darke imaginary power you are strangers to the Sonne of righteousnesse If this darke power bear sway in you it is he whom you professe and it is he whom you call God and Christ for that power that you hold forth in your actions is the spirit you professe If your actions be full of selfe love as you may know it by your hastie anger when your Religion is questioned and by your snappish bitternesse against those that differs from you then this darke power is he you worship There is likewise in the garden of Eden mans heart sweet flowers and hearbs As Joy Peace Love humility selfe-denyall patience sincerity truth or equitie These are the true inhabitants in the righteous Land and all these make up but one power or body which is the seed or Tree of Life in you And this power is the day-time of Mankinde or the presence of the Sonne of righteousnesse in the heart This power is the Elect the Sonne of the Father in whom he delights this Sonne shall live for ever in rest peace and in the power of eternall life This is the righteous man this is Michaell the Seed Christ or blessing Therefore consider what spirit you professe and live not in darknesse any longer Babes and sucklings doe see and can say that in your established formes you worship and professe you know not what you say one thing and doe another you make God and Christ a very cheat to the world as if he were all words and no deeds Indeed your king Hypocrisie is so But the King of righteousnesse which your established formes hath and doe dishonour before the Nations is not so and you all must and shall be torne in pieces and scattered and shamed for your excessive pride covetousnesse hardnesse of heart selfe-love and hypocrisie and your verball profession shall be loathed by all and be

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