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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66687	The new law of righteousnes budding forth, in restoring the whole creation from the bondage of the curse. Or A glimpse of the new heaven, and new earth, wherein dwels righteousnes. Giving an alarm to silence all that preach or speak from hear-say, or imagination. By Gerrard Winstanley	Winstanley, Gerrard, b. 1609.	1649 (1649)	Wing W3049; ESTC R219016	82,328	133

either to kill that body it dwels in or some others that angers it But the Power of Christ the Law of Righteousnesse ruling within is not moved to any such rashnesse it is patient meek and loving and doth act righteously both to his own body and to others though they be his enemies CHAP. IV. ANd truly here lies the chiefest knowledge of a man to know these two powers which strives for government in him and to see and know them distinctly one from the other that he may be able to say This is the name and power of the flesh and this is the name and power of the Lord For these two powers are the two Adams in man-kind they are Iacob and Esau striving who shall rule in the Kingdom the flesh first Or these are the Son of the bond-woman viz. The powers of the flesh which is the serpent Devil or power of darknesse Or the Son of the free woman which is Christ the wisdom and power of Righteousnesse ruling in flesh and making it free from the others bondage And here I shall declare what I know the first Adam or son of bondage is And secondly What the second Adam or son of the free-woman is both which Powers I have seen and felt manifested in this body of my flesh First I shall shew how the first Adam in his time of rule hath suppressed and kept under the second man the anointing And then secondly how this second man in the time appointed of his rising doth kill and crucifie the first Adam daily with all his lusts and freeth me from that slavery The first Adam kils and crucifies Christ in me when I consent and make provision to satisfie my pride over humility covetousnesse over contentednesse envy over love lust before chasticy esteeming the power of an humble loving and righteous spirit towards the poorest creatute but a low and contemptible thing or the like Now Christ is crucified in me he rules not he acts not in a lively power but the first man of the flesh he governs the Kingdom my body in unrighteousnesse And Christ lies buried in this earthly tabernacle under those cursed powers in my enslaved body But then secondly When the fulnesse of time comes that it is the Fathers will that Christ the spirit of truth shal arise above the power of unrighteousnesse in me that is humility arises above pride love above envy a meek and quiet spirit above hasty rash anger chastity above unclean lusts and light above darknesse Now the second Adam Christ hath taken the Kingdom my body and rules in it He makes it a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwels Righteousnesse I shall explain these two Adams a little more First then The first Adam or man of the flesh branches himself forth into divers particulars to fetch peace into himself from objects without himself As for example covetousnesse is a branch of the flesh or first man that seeks after creature enjoyment or riches to have peace from them Pride looks abroad for honour Envy seeks the revenge of such as crosses his fleshy ends by reproch oppression or murder Unclean lusts seeks to embrace strange flesh Imagination flies abroad to devise wayes to satisfie the flesh in these desires Hypocrisie turns himself into divers shapes ye sometimes into an Angel of light a zealous Professour to compasse these ends And self-love which is ignorant of the universal power lies couching in the bottom sending those six several powers of darknesse abroad to fetch in peace to delight self that lies at home in the fleshy heart And all these powers make up but one perfect body of sin and death one Devil or one compleat power of darknesse or that whorish power called the Beast with seven heads And it is called the Beast because all those seven discoveries are of the flesh and flesh is no other but a beast and the wise flesh of man is said to be the beast the King of beasts that was to raign fourty two mo●ths or for a time times and dividing of time and then he should be destroyed by the man of Righteousnesse Christ And truly upon every head there is ten horns that is there are many branchings forth of powers from every head to satisfie self which are Kings indeed And they are called ten horns every head encountering against the five senses of the left hand man and against the five senses of the right hand man of righteousnesse and so fights against every particular spreading forth of Christ So that these Kings are not to be restrained to the Kings of the Nations though that is true such powers are enemies to Christ and they must yield up their Kingdoms unto him and those that are angry against Christ are to be destroyed But these ten horns are Kingly powers of the flesh that rules within every man leading him captive under the body of the power of darknesse for there is not the branching forth of evil in any kind to delight self but it springs forth from one or other of those seven heads all joyning to honour and advance the Beast The man of Righteousnesse Christ he is the second Adam and he spreads himself as far as the other to undermine him and to take the Kingdom that is the created flesh or the living earth man-kind out of that Devils hand For Christ is the spreading power of Righteousnesse and therefore he is called The anointing which was poured upon that humane body called by the name Iesus the Son of man and dwelt bodily there for a time but afterward was to spread in sons and daughters many bodies As the oyl upon Aarons head ranne down to the skirts of his garments if any one find rest and peace in this precious Alabaster which is the wisdome and power of the spirit he finds it not by looking upon him at a distance from him but by seeing and feeling that power ruling within the body of his flesh As thus contentednesse in all straits or poverty to live upon providence is this second Adam in thee killing thy discontented covetousnesse Humility and meeknesse is the same anointing which kils pride and loftines Love to enemies yea the law of love flowing forth to every creature is Christ in you which kils envy and rash anger Chastitie in the flesh kils uncleannesse wisdom that is pure and plain down right kils a subtil over-reaching Imagination Sincerity and singlenesse of heart the same anointing kils hypocrisie and love to others doing as a man would be done unto and so respecting the publick preservation of all creatures doth kill self-love And all these seven branchings forth of the pure spirit makes but one body Christ or one Almighty power or Mercie and Justice the holy breathing or Emanuel God in us And every one of these seven eyes or seven attributes of the Divine branches themselves forth into several horns of power to destroy the man of the flesh and to

in man And the powers of the flesh which is the Serpent or curse shall be subdued under him and man-kind shall be made onely subject to this one Spirit which shall dwell bodily in every one as he dwelt bodily in the man Christ Jesus who was the Son of man Now as Moses declared That the Lamb Jesus Christ should be that great Prophet to whom every one should give ear delivered it in general termes leaving the particular discoveries of his new doctrine to the Lamb himself when he came and so did not go about to imagine matters that was above his circle and we see the Doctrine of Jesus Christ when he came far exceeded the Doctrine of Moses the one being the substance of the other and so mo●● spiritual makings forth then the other Even so the man Christ Jesus the great Prophet declared in general termes what should be in later times leaving it to every son and daughter to declare their particular experiences when the Spirit doth rise up in them and manifests himself to them For they that believe saith he out of their bellies shall flow rivers or plentifull discoveries of the water of life Therefore as Moses gave way to Christ for when Christ appeared in flesh Moses administration began to be silent and drew back and set Jesus Christ in the chair to be the great Prophet that should be the teacher in types after him And the ministration of these discoveries were to raign in the world their appointed times Even so the Lamb Christ Jesus or that single body gives way to the holy Ghost or spreading Spirit If I go not away the Comforter cannot come to you for he that dwels bodily in me is to spread himself in you that as the Father in me and I in him are one even so I in you and you in me may become one wit● the Father And the testimony of the Apostles declares as much Though we have known Christ after the flesh in one single body yet now henceforth know we him no more so but we look after that mystery which hath been kept secret from ages and generations past which is Christ in you the hope of glory And therefore I must tell you that yet live in dipping in water and observation of Gospel-forms and types you live yet under the ministration of Jesus Christ after the flesh declaring the Lamb Christ to remain as yet in one single person But know you that as the ministration of Moses gave way to this so this ministration is to give way to the inward teachings of Christ and the spreading of the Spirit in sons and daughters which will more excellently declare the glory of the mystery The man Christ Jesus himself told the woman of Samaria Woman the time is coming that neither in Jerusalem nor in this mountain shall men worship the Father but they that worship him shall worship him in Spirit and in Truth for the Father seeks such to worship him By these words The Son of man declares that both outward forms customs and types of Moses worship under that ministration at Jerusalem likewise all forms and customs and types of this ministration of himself as the Lamb held forth at a distance to be our Mediatour should all cease and give way to the spirituall worship of the Father in the latter dayes or to the spreading of the Divine power in men the one Law of Righteousnesse being the teacher of all So that upon the rising up of Christ in sons and daughters which is his second comming the ministration of Christ in one single person is to be silent and draw back and set the spreading power of Righteousnesse and wisdom in the chair of whose Kingdom there shall be no end So as all things were gone out from the Spirit and were gone astray and corrupted The Spirit in this great mystery of truth being manifested in flesh burns up that drosse out of the Creation and draws in all things back again into himself and declares himself to be the alone wisdom and power of Righteousnesse that rules dwels that governs and preserves both in and over the whole Creation And now the Son delivers up the Kingdom unto the Father And he that is the spreading power not one single person become all in all in every person that is the one King of Righteousnesse in every one Here we may see what the dividing of time is which is the last period in which the Beast is to reign● for now every ministration pleads his priviledge till the Law of Righteousnesse drown up all in himself Moses yet pleads a priviledge in the practice of the Jews after the flesh The Son of man or Christ in one single person ple●ds a priviledge and not onely the true ministration of the Son of man according to the Apostles declaration But likewise many false forms customs and observations of Divine worship are raised up through a wrong understanding of those Scriptures all plead a priviledge And lastly the ministration of the Spirit forsaking all types and ●ormes worshipping the Father in the substance of truth This now pleads his priviledge as his due right by course So that you see here is the dividing of time But this last ministration is the sufferer for the present as being denied his right by the former that ought to give way And as the worshippers in Moses ministration envied and killed such as worshipped the Son of man the Lamb So now those that worship Christ at a distance in their severall Congregations and forms and are most zealous therein are in these dayes the most bitterest enemies to the ministration of Christ in Spirit and in truth But when this ministration of the Spirit spreads himself he will make the greatest separation that ever was For though Israels separation out of Egypt amazed the world and the separation of gathered Congregations out of Parish Churches so called did trouble the earth though it is no more but going out of one form into another not into the unitie of the one Spirit Yet this ministration of the Spirit now rising up by right of inheritance will take peace from the world much more for he hath begun and he will and shall go on to gather the scattered of Isreal together out of all Aegytian bondages and self-seeking oppressing government and out of all forms and customes of the Beast to worship the Father in spirit and truth being made to be all of one heart and one minde And this shall more and more appear as the earth grows up to be a common treasury for all Therefore let me tell you That all your enmity will not uphold your ●orms your imprisoning and reviving and making law to suppresse such as ●●e contrary to you will never work your will but pull miseries and shame upon your selves as the zealous Scribes and Pharisees did in killing of Christ the Sonne of

declare the Lord in a pure language shall bear his shame who soever he be None shall need to turn over books and writings for indeed all these shal cease too to get knowledge but every one shal be taken off from seeking knowledge from without and with an humble quiet heart wait upon the Lord til he manifest himself for he is a great king and worthy to be waited upon His testimony within fils the soul with joy and singing he gives first experience and then power to speak forth those experiences And hence you shal speak to the rejoycing one of another and to the praise of him that declares his power in you he that speaks his thoughts studies and imagination and stands up to be a Teacher of others shal be judged for his unrighteousnesse because he seeks to honour flesh and does not honour the Lord Behold the Anointing that is to teach all things is comming to create new Heavens and new Earth wherein Righteousness dwels and there shal not be a vessel of humane earth but it shal be filled with Christ If you were possible to have so many buckets as would contain the whole Ocean every one is filled with the Ocean and perfect water is in all and being put all together make up the perfect Ocean which filled them all Even so Christ who is the spreading power is now beginning to fil every man and woman with himself he wil dwel and rule in every one and the law of reason equitie shal be Christ in them every single body is a star shining forth of him or rather a body in and out of whom he shines and he is the Ocean of power that fils all And so the words are true the Creation mankinde shal be the fulnesse of him that fils all in all This is the Church the great Congregation that when the mysterie is compleated shal be the mystical body of Christ all set at libertie from inward and outward straits and bondage And this is called the holy breathing that hath made all new by himself and for himself Before this truth be believed in by mankinde you shal see much troubles in the great world the first Adam wil strive mightily before he loose his Kingdom he can pretty quietly hear that Christ will role in sons and daughters that are scattered abroad But to hear that the Kingdoms of the world shal be Christ's Dominions likewise and that the material earth shall be his possession as well as the earth mankind O this cu●s Adam to the heart all the world will storm and be angry when this is made known Wars and rumours of wars will multiply Father will be against Son and Son against Father the love of many shall wax cold and zealous professours that live without the spirit shall become the most bitter enemies to Christ and prove very treacherous self-seeking self-loving ful of subtil policy to waste and wear out every one that seeks to advance Christ by their bitternesse and oppression But all in vain for Christ must rise and the powers of the flesh must fall CHAP. XIII FRom what hath been hitherto spoken if there were no experience to prove it it appears that the first Adam or fleshly man seeks life peace and glory to himself from creatures and things that are without him As first he seeks content and peace from wife children friends riches places of dominion over others and from such like But that peace that is built upon such hay and stubble-foundations will fall and come to nothing Secondly the fleshly man seeks content and peace from Sermons Prayers Studies Books Church-fellowship and from outward Forms and Customs in Divine Worship But that peace that is built upon this foundation of gold silver and pretious stones will fall and come to nothing likewise All creatures teats are to be dried up that the soul can suck no refreshing milk from them before the Lord teach it knowledge Some there are nay almost every one wonders after the Beast or fleshly man they seek for new Jerusalem the City of Sion or Heaven to be above the skies in a locall place wherein there is all glory and the beholding of all excellent beauty like the seeing of a show or a mask before a man And this not to be seen neither by the eies of the body till the body be dead A strange conceit But poor Creatures you are deceived this expectation of glory without you will vanish you shall never see it this outward heaven is not the durable Heaven this is a fancy which your false Teachers put into your heads to please you with while they pick your purses and betray your Christ into the hands of flesh and hold Jacob under to be a servant still to Lord Esau Wel what a man sees or hears to day may be gone to morrow all outward glory that is at a distance from the five senses and taken in by a representation is of a transient nature and so is the Heaven that your Preachers tell you of But when the second Adam rises up in the heart he makes a man to see Heaven within himself and to judge all things that are below him He makes many bodies to be the declarers of him who is the one power of righteousnesse that rules therein And this is Heaven that will not fail us endurable riches treasures that shall not wax old and where moth and rust cannot corrupt nor thieves break through and steal This Christ is within you your everlasting rest and glory And as the man of the flesh fetches in comforts from without seeking content in and from Creatures and Creature-objects so he envies every one that crosses his desires crosse him in his pride covetousnesse and uncleannesse and he grows extream angry at every body tell him that his formall and customary preaching and praying is but self-seeking not setting up the Lord and he is filled with rage against those that tel him so But he never looks within to check himself he takes no remedy there at all and lets those Devils lie quiet within and if any be sent I say from the Lord to disturb those his lusts he will disturb that messenger if he can but he will cherish himself within He thinks that whatsoever he doth is good and that whatsoever crosses that power that is in his heart doth crosse the Lord But truly it is no other but the Serpents power which must be destroyed he fetches in content from the Creatures that are without him and his envy and discontent runs after things and Creatures that are without which crosses his fleshly desires But now the man of righteousnesse Christ when he rises up in the heart he loves all that are without him and he envies none but the Serpent within which troubles the Creation and so is quite different to the other For as soon as Christ is rose up in a man the first thing he doth he takes