Love your
enemies, and do to them as you would have had them do to you, if
they had conquered you. Well, let them go in peace, and let Love
wear the Crown. For I tell you and your Preachers, that Scripture
which saith 'The Poor shall inherit the Earth,' is really and
materially to be fulfilled. For the Earth is to be restored from
the bondage of Sword-propriety, and is to become a Common Treasury
in reality to the whole of mankind. For this is the work for the
true Saviour to do, who is the true and faithful Leveller, even the
Spirit and Power of Universal Love, that is now rising to spread
itself in the whole Creation, who is the Blessing, who will spread
as far as the Curse has spread, to take it off and cast it out, and
who will set the Creation in peace."
The pamphlet then concludes with the following words:
"The time is very near when the people generally shall loathe and
be ashamed of your Kingly Power, in your preaching, in your Laws,
in your Councils, as now you are ashamed of the Levellers. I tell
you Jesus Christ, who is that powerful Spirit of Love, is the Head
Leveller: and as He is lifted up, He will draw all men after Him,
and leave you naked and bare.... This Great Leveller, Christ our
King of Righteousness in us, shall cause men to beat their swords
into plough-shares, their spears into pruning-hooks, and Nations
shall learn war no more.
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