_It is every ones, but not one single ones._ Yea, the Commons are
as truly ours by the last excellent two Acts of Parliament, the
foundation of England's new Righteous Government aimed at, as the
Elder Brothers can say the Enclosures are theirs. For they ventured
their lives and covenanted with us to help them preserve their
Freedom; and we adventured our lives and they covenanted with us to
purchase and to give us our Freedom, that hath been hundreds of
years kept from us."
The first part of this pamphlet concludes as follows:
"_Damona non Armis sed Morte subegit Jesus._
"By patient sufferings, not by Death,
Christ did the devil kill:
And by the same still to this day,
His foes he conquers still.
"True Religion and undefiled is this: To make Restitution of the
Earth, which hath been taken and held from the Common People by the
power of Conquests formerly, and to set the oppressed free. Do not
all strive to enjoy the land? The Gentry strive for land; the
Clergy strive for land; the Common People strive for land; and
Buying and Selling is an Art whereby People endeavour to cheat one
another of the land. Now, if any can prove from the Law of
Righteousness that the land was made peculiar to him and his
successively, shutting others out, he shall enjoy it freely for my
part.
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