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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

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

and universall Love above others doth it tie the Creation together in the unity of s●i●it and band of peace we cannot say it doth or if any say it doth then I 'le answer What meanes then the lowing of the Oxen and bleating of the Sheep what meanes such complaints that those that sit in the Chaire of Magistracie are covenant promise and oathes-breakers and are self●-Lovers Lovers of honour mo●eys and ease and regard not the c●ies of the oppressed T●ey favour the rich for reward and despise and sleight the poore They give the Earth to some and denie the Earth others by reason whereof murmurings and divisions multiplie and so uphold the slavish Law of conquests Now judge Is such a Magistracie as this the greatest Light doth this tye the Creation together in the unity of spirit and band of peace surely as yet the mysterie of iniquitie sports himselfe uncontrouled under this excellent name or covering called Magistracie but the babes and sucklings will draw off his vaile and shew all his nakednesse and shame him If you would finde true Majestie indeed goe among the poore despised ones of the Earth for there Christ dwells and there you shall see Light and Love shine in Majestie indeed rising up to unite the Creation indeed into the unitie of spirit and band of peace the blessing of the Lord is am●ngst the poore and the covetous scoffing covenant-b●eaking thieves and murderers that croud themselves under the name Magistracie shall be sent emptie away These great ones are too stately houses for Christ to dwell in he takes up his abode in a manger Inne and amongst the poore in spirit and despised ones of the Earth Secondly Imaginarie Ministrie and Religion is to be plucked up as unsavorie salt and this is the learned publick Ministrie of the world for this Ministrie is set up by craft and covetousnesse how to draw the Earth and the labours of men into the Clergies hands These men make themselves ministers as a man teaches birds to speake But they doe not stay till Christ make them for that will be too long for them to wait the rich Benefices will be all taken up This Ministrie having learned other mens words by their long education in their Vniversitie Schooles takes upon them to interpret other mens words and writings and this imaginary studie of theirs they call pure Doctrine and tells the people it is pure Religion to come and heare their Sermon and to give them Tithes or a la●ge maintenance for so doing But this is a false Prophet he runs before he be sent Study and Imagination was never appointed and sent of Christ to be a Minister for him this is Antichrists Ministrie For when Christ sent out his Disciples to preach he saith that which you have heard and seen goe preach and saith Paul we cannot but speake the things which we have heard and seen from the Father But the Vniversitie publick Ministrie runs before he be sent they take up another mans message and carries abroad other mens words or studies or imagines a meaning and this is their ministrie This is not to preach the truth as it was in Jesus purely and experimentally as they received it of the Father but as they receive it from man and by man The Scriptures of the Bible were written by the experimentall hand of Shepherds Husbandmen Fishermen and such inferiour men of the world And the Vniversitie learned ones have got these mens writings and flourish●s their plaine language over with their darke interpretation and glosses as if it were too hard for ordinary men now to understand them and thereby th●y deceive the simple and makes a prey of the poore and cosens them of the Earth and of the tenth of their labors And because those mens writings are taking with the world therefore thes● learned ones shuts out the true Penmen in whom the Spirit dwells and saith now such Mecanicks must not meddle with spirituall things And so by covetous policie in opposition to the ●ig●teous spirit they engrosse other mens ex●erimentall spirituall teachings to themselves as if it were their ow●e by Vniversity or Schoole learning succession Pope l●ke Nay just the Pope And by their ●lacknesse of darknesse in their Schoole-learning they have d●awne a vayle over the truth And Light by them is hid from the world for the plaine t●u●h is this Imaginary ministrie is neither better nor worse but plaine unmasked Iudas And the snappish bitter profession that cries it up is the unmasked murdering Scribes and Pharisees The one betrayes Christ the spirit of righteousnesse with a kisse pretending a great deale of Love to the Spirit by preaching and praying to a God without they know not where nor what he is The other kills him and will not suffer him to appeare in the world for these snappish professors calls every thing blasphemie unlesse they approve of it still tying the Spir●t to themselves saying Loe here is Christ in this man and loe there is Christ in that man But Christ is the Light of Life spread abroad and he is now rising in Husbandmen Shepherds Fishermen And by these he first takes off the black interpretation hat the imaginary learned Scholars by their studies have defiled the Scriptures of old with and restores them to their owne genuine and pure Light And then to discover his appearance in sonnes and daughters in a fuller measure the poore despised ones shall be honoured first in the worke and from this ●ust the blessing shall arise to cover the whole Earth with peace and with the knowledge of the Lord For this is the vine that shall overspread the Earth and shall be confi●●d no longer within a Colledge or private Vniversity Cha●ber or under a covetous proud black gowne that would alwayes be speaking words but fall off when people begins to act their words When Jesus Christ the Sonne of man was upon Earth in that one p●rson he could very seldome speake but the hypocriticall snappish Pharisees were either si●●n● and watched to trap him in his speech ●ob●i●g him into bondage or else with open mouth they cryed out he is a blasphemer a Devill and a friend of Publicans and sinners condemning him b●cause he was no scholar How knowes this man l●ters seeing he never learned And have not the Pharisees of our age who are the imaginary bi●t●r professors the same subtlety a●d language And as they of old sought to kill Christ so these end●avour to suppresse him and will not suffer him to arise in sonnes and daughters though the Scripture declare it w●ich they make such a strict professio● of as if they would not loose one letter These professors will st●ll ●onfi●e Christ to a private chamber and to p●●●icular ●odies ●nd restraine him who is the ●●iversall power of Love and peace They owne a●m in w●rds but they denie him in power they worship God at a distance not knowing where he is nor what they worship And they

And all inferiour creatures shall stand in awe of and reverence and love man And t●e wisdome and Love in man shall preserve all others in safety and peace CAAP. II. What the Tree of Knowledge of Good and evill is BVt when Imagination is fed upon and delighted in as it is at this day amongst most people This is he that puts all out of order he corrupts the five Senses and makes mankinde walke disorderly and to teare and devoure members of his owne kinde just like the Beast of the field and to differ nothing from them the Beasts they prey and devoure one another so does imaginary man fights makes wars kills robs destroyes and wasts one another This is the reigne of the Beast and yet he would be called a God though he be the murderer well thou art and still shalt be called a God But thou art the God of the world that runs round and when thou art brought to where thou beganst then thy dayes are done thou must dye And the voyce is pronounced it is done time shall be to thee no more And thou shalt be destroyed without hand that is without sword or weapons which is the rocke of d●fence for Christ will consume thee by the word of his mouth and by the brightnesse of his commi●g Well this Imaginary power is the darke side of the cloude This is the Sonne of the mother Earth mankinde which causes shame This is the curse the Serpent the Devill and his power hath filled the Creation and is the burden it grones under This is the power of darknes And he would be as God knowing good and evill therefore the Almighty power of Life affords him a time times and dividing of time to rule in mankinde And while he rules he fills all creatures with sorrow and slavery and so in the end of his appointed time he is proved a Devill and not the true God the destroyer and murderer and not the Saviour The curse and not the blessing of the Creation the power of darknesse and not the power of Light This is the darknesse that hath covered the Earth and the curse that destroyes all things this is he that calls light darknesse and darknesse light good evill and evill good and while this power rules in mankinde mankinde is in prison and bondage within himselfe and sees no Light And under this power of Imagination the whole government of the world amongst the sonnes of men is built all Nations are under this Kingdome of darknesse the frame of this worldly government is the Devills proper Kingdome And the power of the sword fighting and killing cannot throw downe his Kingdome but set it up in more power B●t that power that must destroy the dark Kingdome is a power contrary to him And that is Love and patience Live in this life and thou killst the Devill and shakest his Kingdome about his eares This power of Love and patience acted with a cheerefull life kills Imagination Indeed Imagination is that God which generally every one worships and ownes and in the matter they worship a lye the Devill and meere nothing This is he that makes everie one wise in his owne conceit that makes men Envie censure and dest●oy one another and to take pleasure in none but what pleases selfe This Imagination feares where no feare is he rises up to destroy others for feare least others destroy him he will oppresse others least others oppresse him and feares he shall be in want hereafter therefore he takes by violence that which others have laboured for And so he beates the even ground before him like a blinde man that imagines that hill or block lies in his way And though this dark power be a God or mighty ruler in mankinde yet assoone as he appeared to rule the true Light appeares to breake his peace assoone as Imagination began to sit upon the throne Mans heart The seed of Life began to cast him out and to take his Kingdome from him So that this is the great battaile of God Alm●ghty Light fights against darknesse universall Love fights against selfish power Life against death True knowledge against imaginary thoughts These two powers are Michaell and the Dragon and this battaile is fought in Heaven that is in mankinde in the garden of Eden where God principally resolves to set up his throne of righteous governement it is not sought in the spirit of Beasts but in Heaven in the spirit of Mankinde who is the Lord And this battaile in our age of the world growes hotter and sharper then formerly for we are under the dividing of time which is the last period of the Beasts raigne And he will strive hardest now But it will be in vaine he must loose his Kingdome for the Lambe will cast the Dragon out and bring all into Peace then every thing shall appe●re naked and bare before the Lord of the whole Earth and all Imaginary coverings shall be taken off every where Now the end of all societies of Churches preaching praying Ordinances should be to finde out this darknesse and to cast it out And to worship the Father in Spirit and truth And so to advance the Blessing or the Sonne in whom the Father is well pleased That so mankinde might cease speaking and acting from thoughts and Imagination and may come to speake and act purely as the truth was in Jesus he being the supreame Lord of the Earth This you Preachers and Professors is or at least should be the end of your profession And if you come short of this you loose all your paines and will be ranked among imaginary Hypocrites that worship they know not what but as their fancie ●ells them And that is neither better nor worse but the Devill which you worship Therefore if man would live purely to the honour of that spirit in him which is called the Seed he is then to know what spirit is it that rules in him and to act from it for that spirit that rules is the God whether it be Imagination or whether it be the light of life which is vniversall Love This is the shame and misery of our age That every one professes Christ and the spirit and they will preach of and pray to the Spirit And yet they know not inwardly by what spirit or inward power they are ruled Every one lookes upon a God and a ruler without him as the Beast of the field does few sees their Ruler within These have lost their dominion and Lordship and they live under the curse and are blinde in their Imagination and are ignorant of the wayes of truth These are cast out of the Garden they live out of themselves upon the Earth they live upon riches honors-pleasures Ministe●s Lawyers Armies wife children Ordinances customes and all outward formes of worship or in that beastly community with women now adayes cryed up by the lust of the flesh yea upon any thing without them which they imagine good take away these