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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

and tyrant-ruling flesh seek to imprison you and kill you so they dealt with him and it is still the righteous man in you that is opposed If you be made to joy in the Father the Spirit of truth it is he within you that rejoyces in himself if you feel a waiting meek spirit in you it is still Christ in you who is meek and lowly If you feel the power of love dwell within you leading you to love enimies and to do as you would be done unto it is Christ in you who is the law of love and Righteousnesse And in every condition you are in this law of the Spirit meets with the powers of your own flesh f●etting and fighting against him For envy frowardnesse self-love covetousnesse are the power of darknesse in you that fights against the Spirit that sweetly seeks the preservation and peace of all But that opposing power in you is the devil serpent and power of darknesse which Christ the power of light rising up in you will destroy and so mortality shall be swallowed up of life And Christ will not sit down in peace rejoycing in you till he hath subdued all these inward and outward enemies under his feet and himself become the alone King of Righteousnesse in you for he is that mighty King that shall be established upon the holy hill of Sion that is He shall be only King unto whom every man woman shal be made a subject This King shall raigne for ever and ever And this is he you would call God but indeed the power of darknesse is the god that rules in most men and women both professours and others and they will subject to this their god of darknesse till the power of light Christ take him away So that whatsoever estate a son or daughter is in it is still but Christ combating with his enemies in that estate drawing all into himself and destroying all oppsing powers that himself may remain to be the one alone Almighty power spread forth every where and so doing the will of the Father brusing the Sarpents head in you and that he himself who is the divine may grow up flourish remaine and bring ●orth aboundance of fruit in you when your created flesh is purged from bondage and made subject to him But if Christ and the Father be all one power and wisdome why do you make a distinction as if they were two I answer The Father is the universall power that hath spread himself in the whole globe The Sonne is the same power drawn into and appearing in one single person making that person subject to the one Spirit and to know him that dwels every where There is not a person or creature within the compasse of the globe but he is a sonne of the of the Father or the breakings forth of that power in one body now every small creature is the light of the Fa●her though it be a dark one but man living in the light of the Father is called The wel-beloved Sonne because that one power of Rigteousnesse dwels bodily in him and the whole Creation is drawn up into that one centre man And now the Lord a lone is exalted in this day of his power for now the Serpent is cast out of heaven a●l powers of darknesse are subdued and the Spirit remaines conquerour in man yet in single man and so filling the living earth man-kinde in all his branches with himself the one Spirit This spreading power is the Fathers house in which there are many mansions or dwelling places every crerture lives herein for in and by him every one lives and moves and hath his being This is to speak truth as it is in Jesus This is Sion that is above where the Father dwels in his glory Sinai is the mountaine of flesh that is to be burned with fire that is the Spirit of Righteousnesse is the fire that will burn-up all unrighteous powers in the flesh And to see this power of Righteousnesse spreading himself every where destroying death and preserving the Creation is to see him you would call God with open face and you can never see him plainly and nakedly till you come thus to see him therefore you Priests and zealous ptofessors learne hereafter ro know what power it is you call God for the word God signifies a Governour and it may as well be attributed to the devil as to the law of Righteousnesse for assure your selves if covetousnesse pride and bitter envy doe rule you as it is apparent this dark power rules most of you then the devil is that god you worship and you are strangers and enemies to the Spirit of Truth that dwels every where which you seem to call your God or Ruler CHAP. III. ANd this is no new Gospel but the old one It is the same report that the Pen-men of Scriptures gave for the everlasting Gospel God with us or God manifest in flesh The Father exalted above all and in all for the Prophets and Apostles declare these two things First the Spirit spreads himself abroad in sacrifices and types as in Moses time and then takes all into himself againe the Spirit manifest in one person as in the son of man For all the writings of old and new Testament are all centered in Christ and are swallowed up into him And this Christ is not only confined to the Lamb Jesus anointed but is the enlarging of the same anointing in the particular persons of sonnes and daughters in whom the same spirit of truth the comforter is to be manifest in after times And this power shall not only fill man-kinde and be all in all therein but all other creatures of all kinde according to their severall degrees shall be filled with this one spirit anointing As Pauls testimony reports that the whole Creation of all kindes of creatures in whom the curse is spread through mans unrighteousnesse doth all groan and travell waiting for the manifestation of the sonnes of God When man-kinde shall be restored and delivered from the curse and all spirited with this one power then other creatures shall be restored likewise and freed from their burdens as the Earth from thorns and briars and barrennesse the Air and winds from unseasonable storms and distempers the Cattle from bitternesse and rage one against another And the law of righteousnesse and love shall be seated in the whole Creatton from the lowest to the highest creature And this is the work of restoration So that all the glory and content that man takes in other creatures of the earth it is but a rejoycing in himself or that spirit that is within him being more and more filled with peace to see feel taste smell and hear the power of the whole Creation to have a sweet complyancy of love in him and with him For now all jarring rashnesse violent storms barrennesse of the earth corruption in fire and water enmity in cattles oppressing principles in one man over

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

false expositions and interpretations for no man knows the meaning of the spirit but he that hath the spirit And if the Father send forth any of these tradesmen to declare the testimony which is in them as in these dayes he sends forth many And these true labourers shall encrease let the Universitie men do the worst they can yet the Schollars seek to suppresse them calling them new-lights factious erroneou● blasphemers and the like And why do they all this Because the light of truth that springs up out of this earth which the schollars tread under feet will shine so clear as it will put out the candle of those wicked learned deceivers And therefore many of them that are more ingennous or subtile then the rest seeing light arises much amongst the people begin to comply with the people and give people their liberty to speak as well as they and denie the tithes upon this condition the people will give them a free contribution and own them as the chief Preachers and Prophets sent of God and to look upon themselves as underlings to the schollars And therefore stir up people to gather into Congregations and to make choice of one man to be their Preacher though they shall have a liberty to speak in the Congregation as well as he But all this is but deceit of the flesh to draw people under a new bondage and to uphold the hearsay-preaching that in time matters may be wheeled about again to advance the schollars and give them the supremacy in teaching And what is the end of all this but onely to hinder Christ the great Prophet from rising and whereas people should all look up to him for teaching and acknowledge no other teacher and ruler but Christ the Law of Righteousnesse dwelling in every mans heart the schollars would have the people to look up to them for teaching and truly let me speak what I find the more that you look upon them or any men for teaching the more you shall be wrapped up in confusion and bondage And therefore the upshot of all your Universities and publick Preachers and men-teachers is onely to hinder Christ from rising and to keep Jacob under and make him a servant and a slave to the man of the flesh So that all this do in the world about hear-say preaching and setled forms of worship is no other but the spreadings forth of the thorn-bush the fleshly man to hinder the worship of the Father in spirit and truth And all those strict and zealous Preachers and Professours of other mens words and writings and upholders of forms and customs are no other but the Scribes Pharisees and Judas that still pursue Christ in enmity And this is the Reason why man-kind are so ignorant and cold-spirited in the acknowledgment of the Father because the night-Vine or blanches of the Thorn-bush are so mighty great and thick that they hide the light and heat of the Sun of Righteousnesse from it This is the man of sin the mysterie of iniquity that lets and must let till he be taken out of the way Indeed this Thorn-bush doth so prick that none dares meddle with it unlesse he be well cloathed with Christ This Thorn-bush or night-Vine grows in the cold time of the night while the Sun of Righteousnesse is under the Clouds and the fruit it brings forth is unpleasant as pride covetousnesse envy self-love hypocrisie confusion bondage and all the misery under the power of darknesse to make Lord Esau a compleat Tyrant and they that act from this Vine are called children of the night Now from hence it appears what horrible proud men the Clergie are that call themselves Divines or Christ that grows in the light of the Father when alas their light is but a candle stoln from the Apostles and Prophets writings it is not their own light it is but hear-say in them Surely their pride and covetousnesse declares them to be the false Christs and false Prophers and that they are branches of the Thorn-bush that are full of sharp pricks in regard they endeavour to uphold a forced maintenance from the people whether they will or no and force the people to be silent to hear them preach hear-say and not to gainsay or question what they say under pain of punishment or being counted factious or sowers of sedition This is the bondage the people are under by these publique Preachers First they are filled with confusion by their saying and unsaying for they know not what they say they darken knowledge by their words Secondly they are like to be crushed in their estates by the power of corrupt Magistrates if they oppose these Preachers Doth not their shame almost appear to all men ●f it do not it will do ere long assure yourselve you Priests you must fall and be turned out as ludas Simon Magus and the Scribes and Pharisees that are the greatest enemies to Christ the spreading power of righteousnesse The Father doth not send hear-say men to be Labourers in his Vineyard but such as he first fils with the Divine power and then sends them to work in his Vineyard So that still it is but Christ in them that is the one man that is sent of the Father for the Father sends none but his beloved Son who is the law of righteousnesse and peace the spreading power And you shall find you proud and covetous Priests ere long that poor despised ones of the world that have this law in their hearts are the labourers than are sent forth and you that call your selves Divines and Labourers you are Traitors and Enemies to the spirit you have had warning enough you are left without excuse you are the men whose mouths must be stopped not by the hand of Tyrannicall humane power as you have stopped the mouths of others I abhor it for the Lord himself whom you dishonour by your hypocrasie will stop your mouth with shame and sorrow when he makes you to see your selves to be Devils Deceivers Scribes and Pharisees Simon Magaus's Demas's and Judas's that are Traitors to the spirit But if you say you do not assume the name of Day-vines but of Divines as you whrite your selves you are as bad under this description of Divines or Diviners are witches sorcerers deceivers as Balaam was and as the maid that got her Masters much gain by divination Suerly you are no other but Witches and Deceivers for you hold forth letter for spirit make people believe that your words of hear-say are the testimony and experience of the spirit within you and you pick their purses extremly by this divination and sorcerie Well your word Divinity darkens knowledge you talk of a body of Divinity and of Anatomyzing Divinity O fine languague But when it comes to triall it is but a husk without the kernall words without life the spirit is in the hearts of the people vvhom you despise and tread under foot You go on selling vvords for money to the