The
perfecting of which work will prove England to be the First of
Nations, or the Tenth Part of the City Babylon, that falls off
from the Beast first, and that sets the Crown upon Christ's
head, to govern the World in Righteousness.
By JERRARD WINSTANLEY,
A Lover of England's Freedom and Peace.
Die Pride and Envy; Flesh take the Poor's advice.
Covetousness begone: Come Truth and Love arise.
Patience take the Crown; throw Anger out of doors:
Cast out Hypocrisy, and Lust, and mere invented Laws.[133:1]
Then England sit in rest; Thy Sorrows will have end;
Thy Sons will live in Peace, and each will be a friend.
LONDON.
Printed for Giles Calvert, 1650."
Winstanley first gives a rapid sketch of recent events, as follows:
"Gentlemen of the Parliament and Army; You and the Common People
have assisted each other to cast out the head of oppression, which
was Kingly Power seated in one man's hand, and that work is now
done, and till that work was done you called upon the people to
assist you to deliver this distressed, bleeding, dying Nation out
of bondage. And the people came and failed you not, counting
neither purse nor blood too dear to part with to effect this work.
"The Parliament after this have made an Act to cast out Kingly
Power and to make England a free Common-wealth.
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