The title-page of the book reads as follows:
"THE LAW OF FREEDOM IN A PLATFORM:[164:1]
OR
TRUE MAGISTRACY RESTORED.
Humbly presented to Oliver Cromwel, General of the Commonwealth's
Army in England, Scotland and Ireland. And to all English-men
my Bretheren, whether in Church Fellowship or not in Church
Fellowship,[164:2] both sorts walking as they conceive
according to the order of the Gospel: and from them to all the
Nations of the World.
Wherein is declared, What is Kingly Government, and What is
Commonwealth's Government.
BY GERRARD WINSTANLEY.
In thee, O England, is the Law arising up to shine,
If thou receive and practice it, the Crown it will be thine.
If thou reject, and still remain a froward Son to be,
Another Land will it receive, and take the Crown from thee.
REV. 11-15. DAN. 7. 27.
LONDON.
Printed for the Author, and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the
Black Spred-Eagle at the West end of Pauls."
As already mentioned, it opens with a Dedicatory Letter--
"To His Excellency OLIVER CROMWEL, General of the Commonwealth's
Army in England, Scotland and Ireland"--
which commences as follows:
"SIR,--God hath honored you with the highest honor of any man since
Moses' time, to be the head of a People who have cast out an
oppressing Pharaoh.
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