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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. FINIS

that any man should teach him for the same Anoynting that ruled in the Son of man teacheth him all things But since humane flesh that king of Beasts began to delight himself in the objects of the Creation more then in the Spirit Reason and Righteousness who manifests himself to be the indweller in the Five Sences of Hearing Seeing Tasting Smelling Feeling then he fell into blindness of mind and weakness of heart and runs abroad for a Teacher and Ruler And so selfish imaginations taking possession of the Five Sences and ruling as King in the room of Reason therein and working with Covetousnesse did set up one man to teach and rule over another and thereby the Spirit was killed and man was brought into bondage and became a greater Slave to such of his own kind then the Beasts of the field were to him And hereupon The Earth which was made to be a Common Treasury of relief for all both Beasts and Men was hedged in to In-closures by the teachers and rulers and the others were made Servants and Slaves And that Earth that is within this Creation made a Common Store-house for all is bought and sold and kept in the hands of a few whereby the great Creator is mightily dishonored as if he were a respector of persons delighting in the comfortable Livelihood of some and rejoycing in the miserable povertie and straits of others From the beginning it was not so But this coming in of Bondage is called A-dam because this ruling and teaching power without doth dam up the Spirit of Peace and Liberty First within the heart by filling it with slavish fears of others Secondly without by giving the bodies of one to be imprisoned punished and oppressed by the outward power of another And this evil was brought upon us through his own Covetousnesse whereby he is blinded and made weak and sees not the Law of Righteousnesse in his heart which is the pure light of Reason but looks abroad for it and thereby the Creation is cast under bondage and curse and the Creator is sleighted First by the Teachers and Rulers that sets themselves down in the Spirits room to teach and rule where he himself is only King Secondly by the other that refuses the Spirit to be taught and governed by fellow Creatures and this was called Israels Sin in casting off the Lord and chusing Saul one like themselves to be their King when as they had the same Spirit of Reason and government in themselves as he had if they were but subject And Israels rejecting of outward teachers and rulers to embrace the Lord and to be all taught and ruled by that righteous King that Jeremiah Prophesied shall rule in the new Heavens and new Earth in the latter dayes will be their Restauration from bondage Ier. 23.5 6. But for the present state of the old World that is running up like parchment in the fire and wearing away we see proud Imaginary flesh which is the wise Serpent rises up in flesh and gets dominion in some to rule over others and so forces one part of the Creation man to be a slave to another and thereby the Spirit is killed in both The one looks upon himself as a teacher and ruler and so is lifted up in pride over his fellow Creature The other looks upon himself as imperfect and so is dejected in his Spirit and looks upon his fellow Creature of his own Image as a Lord above him And thus Esau the man of flesh which is Covetousness and Pride hath killed Jacob the Spirit of meeknesse and righteous government in the light of Reason and rules over him And so the Earth that was made a common Treasury for all to live comfortably upon is become through mans unrighteous actions one over another to be a place wherein one torments another Now the great Creator who is the Spirit Reason suffered himself thus to be rejected and troden under foot by the covetous proud flesh for a certain time limited therefore saith he The Seed out of whom the Creation did proceed which is my Self shall bruise this Serpents head and restore my Creation again from this curse and bondage and when I the King of Righteousnesse raigns in every man I will be the blessing of the Earth and the joy of all Nations And since the coming in of the stoppage or the A-dam the Earth hath been inclosed and given to the Elder brother Esau or man of flesh and hath been bought and sold from one to another and Iacob or the yonger brother that is to succeed or come forth next who is the universal spreading power of righteousnesse that gives liberty to the whole Creation is made a servant And this Elder Son or man of bondage hath held the Earth in bondage to himself not by a meek Law of Righteousnesse But by subtle selfish Councels and by open and violent force for wherefore is it that there is such Wars and rumours of Wars in the Nations of the Earth and wherefore are men so mad to destroy one another But only to uphold Civil propriety of Honor Dominion and Riches one over another which is the curse the Creation groans under waiting for deliverance But when once the Earth becomes a Common Treasury again as it must for all the Prophesies of Scriptures and Reason are Circled here in this Community and mankind must have the Law of Righteousnesse once more writ in his heart and all must be made of one heart and one mind Then this Enmity in all Lands will cease for none shall dare to seek a Dominion over others neither shall any dare to kill another nor desire more of the Earth then another for he that will rule over imprison oppresse and kill his fellow Creatures under what pretence soever is a destroyer of the Creation and an actor of the Curse and walks contrary to the rule of righteousnesse Do as you would have others do to you and love your Enemies not in Words but in actions Therefore you powers of the Earth or Lord Esau the Elder brother because you have appeared to rule the Creation first take notice That the power that sets you to work is selvish Covetousnes and an aspiring Pride to live in glory and ease over Iacob the meek Spirit that is the Seed that lies hid in among the poor Common People or yonger Brother out of whom the blessing of Deliverance is to rise and spring up to all Nations And Reason the living king of righteousnesse doth only look on and lets thee alone That whereas thou counts thy self an Angel of Light thou shalt appear in the light of the Sun to be a Devil A-dam and the Curse that the Creation groans under and the time is now come for thy downfal and Iacob must rise who is the universal Spirit of love and righteousnesse that fils and will fill all the Earth Thou teaching and ruling power of flesh thou hast had three periods of time to vaunt

an universal Consent of making the Earth a Common Treasury that they may live together as one House of Israel united in brotherly love into one Spirit and having a comfortable livelihood in the Community of one Earth their Mother If you look through the Earth you shall see That the landlords Teachers and Rulers are Oppressors Murtherers and Theeves in this manner But it was not thus from the Beginning And this is one Reason of our digging and labouring the Earth one with another That we might work in righteousness and lift up the Creation from bondage For so long as we own Landlords in this Corrupt Settlement we cannot work in righteousness for we should still lift up the Curse and tread down the Creation dishonour the Spirit of universal Liberty and hinder the work of Restauration Secondly In that we begin to Digge upon George-Hill to eate our Bread together by righteous labour and sweat of our browes It was shewed us by Vision in Dreams and out of Dreams That that should be the Place we should begin upon And though that Earth in view of Flesh be very barren yet we should trust the Spirit for a blessing And that not only this Common or Heath should be taken in and Manured by the People but all the Commons and waste Ground in England and in the whole World shall be taken in by the People in righteousness not owning any Propriety but taking the Earth to be a Common Treasury as it was first made for all Thirdly It is shewed us That all the Prophecies Visions and Revelations of Scriptures of Prophets and Apostles concerning the calling of the Jews the Restauration of Israel and making of that People the Inheritors of the whole Earth doth all seat themselves in this Work of making the Earth a Common Treasury as you may read Ezek. 24.26 27 c. Jer. 33.7 to 12. Esay 49.17 18 c. Zach. 8. from 4 to 12. Dan. 2.44 45. Dan. 7.27 Hos 14.5 6 7. Joel 2.26 27. Amos 9. from 8 to the end Obad. 17.18.21 Mic. 5. from 7 to the end Hab. 2.6 7 8.13 14. Gen. 18.18 Rom. 11.15 Zeph. 3. c. Zach. 14.9 And when the Son of man was gone from the Apostles his Spirit descended upon the Apostles and Brethren as they were waiting at Ierusalem and the Rich men sold their Possessions and gave part to the Poor and no man said That ought that he possessed was his own for they had all things Common Act. 4.32 Now this Community was supprest by covetous proud flesh which was the powers that ruled the world and the righteous Father suffered himself thus to be suppressed for a time times and dividing of time or for 42 months or for three dayes and half which are all but one and the same term of time And the world is now come to the half day and the Spirit of Christ which is the Spirit of universal Community and Freedom is risen and is rising and will rise higher and higher till those pure waters of Shiloe the Well Springs of Life and Liberty to the whole Creation do over-run A-dam and crown those banks of Bondage Curse and Slavery Fourthly This work to make the Earth a Common Treasury was shewed us by Voice in Trance and out of Trance which words were these Work together Eate Bread together Declare this all abroad Which Voice was heard Three times And in Obedience to the Spirit Wee have Declared this by Word of mouth as occasion was offered Secondly We have declared it by writing which others may reade Thirdly We have now begun to declare it by Action in Diging up the Common Land and casting in Seed that we may eat our Bread together in righteousness And every one that comes to work shall eate the Fruit of their own labours one having as much Freedom in the Fruit of the Earth as another Another Voice that was heard was this Israel shall neither take Hire nor give Hire And if so then certainly none shall say This is my Land work for me and I 'le give you Wages For The Earth is the Lords that is Mans who is Lord of the Creation in every branch of mankind for as divers members of our human bodies make but one body perfect so every particular man is but a member or branch of mankind and mankind living in the light and obedience to Reason the King of righteousness is thereby made a fit and compleat Lord of the Creation And the whole Earth is this Lords Man subject to the Spirit And not the Inheritance of covetous proud Fesh that is selvish and enmity to the Spirit And if the Earth be not peculiar to any one branch or branches of mankind but the Inheritance of all Then is it Free and Common for all to work together and eate together And truly you Counsellors and Powers of the Earth know this That wheresoever there is a People thus united by Common Community of livelihood into Oneness it will become the strongest Land in the World for then they will be as one man to defend their Inheritance and Salvation which is Liberty and Peace is the Walls and Bulwarks of that Land or City Wheras on the otherside pleading for Propriety and single Interest divides the People of a land and the whole world into Parties and is the cause of all Wars and Bloud-shed and Contention every where Another Voice that was heard in a Trance was this Whosoever labours the Earth for any Person or Persons that are lifted up to rule over others and doth not look upon themselves as Equal to others in the Creation The hand of the Lord shall be upon that Laborer I the Lord have spoke it and I will do it This Declares likewise to all Laborers or such as are called Poor people that they shall not dare to work for Hire for any Landlord or for any that is lifted up above others for by their labours they have lifted up Tyrants and Tyranny and by denying to labor for Hire they shall pull them down again He that works for another either for Wages or to pay him Rent works unrighteously and still lifts up the Curse but they that are resolved to work and eat together making the Earth a Common Treasury doth joyn hands with Christ to lift up the Creation from Bondage and restores all things from the Curse Fiftly That which does incourage us to go on in this work is this We find the streaming out of Love in our hearts towards all to enemies as well as friends we would have none live in Beggery Poverty or Sorrow but that every one might enjoy the benefit of his creation we have peace in our hearts and quiet rejoycing in our work and filled with sweet content though we have but a dish of roots and bread for our food And we are assured that in the strength of this Spirit that hath manifested himself to us we shall not be startled neither at Prison nor Death