"
After having given forcible expression to his profound contempt for all
mere lip-professions of brotherhood, sympathy, and love, with which
those whose actions are least in accord with the dictates of
righteousness, equity, and reason are so often the most profuse, and
reminding these that--"The talking of love is no love; it is the acting
of love in righteousness which the Spirit Reason, our Father, delights
in"; he addressed the following stirring warning to his fellow-workers:
"Therefore you dust of the earth that are trod under foot, you poor
people that make both scholars and rich men your oppressors by your
labors, take notice of your privilege, the Law of Righteousness is
now declared. If you labor the earth and work for others that live
at ease and follow the ways of the flesh, eating the bread which
you get by the sweat of your brow, not of their own, know this,
that the hand of the Lord shall break out upon every such hireling
laborer, and you shall perish with that covetous rich man that hath
held and yet doth hold the Creation under the bondage of the
curse."
Winstanley then declares his intentions as to the future, which, as we
shall see, he faithfully carried out, as follows:
"I have now obeyed the command of the Spirit that bid me declare
all this abroad. I have declared it and I will declare it by word
of mouth, I have now declared it with my pen.
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