f one household, the Creation, in whom Reason rules king in
perfect glory."

Under these circumstances, he contends:

"No man shall have any more land than he can labor himself,[74:1]
or have others to labor with him in love, working together, and
eating bread together, as one of the tribes or families of Israel,
neither giving hire nor taking hire."

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. And when the Lord
doth show unto me the place and manner, how He will have us that
are called common people manure and work upon the common lands, I
will then go forth and declare it by my action, to eat my bread by
the sweat of my brow, without either giving or taking hire, looking
upon the land as freely mine as another's. I have now peace in the
Spirit, and I have an inward persuasion that the spirit of the poor
shall be drawn forth ere long to act materially this Law of
Righteousness."

Winstanley then proceeds to formulate the practical proposals, whereby
he deemed the d