clouds. Look not upon other Lands to be your pattern. All Lands in
the World lie under Darkness, so doth England yet, though the
nearest to Light and Freedom than any other. Therefore let no other
Land take your Crown....

"At this very day poor people are forced to work, in some places
for 4, 5, and 6 pence a day, in other places for 8, 10, and 12
pence a day, for such small prices that now, corn being dear, their
earnings cannot find them bread for their families. Yet if they
steal for maintenance, the murdering Law will hang them.... Well
this shows that if this be Law, it is not the Law of Righteousness.
It is a murderer; it is the Law of Covetousness and Self Love. And
this Law that frights people and forces people to obey it by
prisons, whips and gallows, is the very Kingdom of the Devil and
Darkness, which the Creation groans under at this day."

After this characteristic outburst, he gives them the following equally
characteristic advice:

"Come, make peace with the Cavaliers, your enemies, and let the
oppressed go free, and let them have a livelihood. 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, Chri