dom_.

The place in the country to which our hero had retired was, we believe,
the little town of Colnbrook, in the extreme southern end of the county
of Buckinghamshire, on the borders of Middlesex, and within seven miles
of St. George's Hill in Surrey. On December 5th, 1648, about a month
prior to the date attached to the opening epistle of _The New Law of
Righteousness_, there issued from the press a short pamphlet,[79:1]
which, seeing that a second edition was printed the following March,
appears to have had a considerable sale, and the title-page of which ran
as follows:

"LIGHT SHINING IN BUCKINGHAMSHIRE:

OR

A Discovery of the Main Ground, Original Cause of all the Slavery
in the World, but chiefly in England. Presented by way of a
Declaration of many of the Well-Affected in that County, to all
their poor oppressed Countrymen of England. And also to the
consideration of the present Army under the conduct of the Lord
Fairfax.

Arise, O God, judge thou the Earth.

Printed in the year 1648."

It opens as follows:

"Jehovah Ellohim created man after his own likeness and image,
which image is his son Jesus (Heb. 1. v. 3), who is the image of
the invisible God. Now man being made after God's image or
likeness, and created by the word of God, which word was made flesh
and dwelt amongst us, which word was life, and that life the light
of man (John 1. v. 1-4). This light I take to be that pure Spirit
in man we call Reason, which we call Conscience. From all which
there issued out that Golden Rule or Law, which we call Equity: the
sum of which is, saith Jesus, _Whatsoever ye would that men should
do to you, do to them: this is the Law and the Prophets._ James
calls it the Royal Law; and to live from this principle is called a
good conscience."

It then points out the cause why men are disinclined to follow this
sound principle of harmonious social union, and the consequences
thereof, as manifested in the prevailing conditions, in the following
words:

"But man following his own sensuality became a devourer of the
creatures and an encloser, not content that another should enjoy
the same privilege as himself, but encloseth all from his brother;
so that all the land, trees, beasts, fish, fowl, etc., are enclosed
into a few mercenary hands, and all the rest