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The Digger Movement in the Days of the Commonwealth - As Revealed in the Writings of Gerrard Winstanley, the Digger, Mystic and Rationalist, Communist and Social Reformer by Lewis Henry Berens
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root stand, it will grow again and recover fresher strength.

"If any ask me, what Kingly Power is? I answer, there is a twofold
Kingly Power. The one is the Kingly Power of Righteousness, and
this is the power of the Almighty God, ruling the whole Creation in
Peace, and keeping it together. And this is the Power of Universal
Love, leading people unto all truth, teaching everyone to do as he
would be done unto.... But the other Kingly Power is the power of
Unrighteousness.... This Kingly Power is the Power of Self Love,
ruling in one or in many men over others, and enslaving those who
in the Creation are their equals; nay, who are in the strictness of
equity rather their masters. And this Kingly Power is usually set
in the Chair of Government, under the name of Prerogative, when he
rules in one over another; and in the name of State Privilege of
Parliament, when he rules in many over others.... While this Kingly
Power ruled in a man called Charles, all sorts of people complained
of oppression, both Gentry and Common People, because their lands,
enclosures and copyholds were entangled, and because their Trade
was destroyed by Monopolising Patentees, and your troubles were
that you could not live free from oppression in the earth.
Thereupon you that were the Gentry, when you were assembled in
Parliament, you called upon the Common People to come and help you
to cast out oppression: and you that complained are helped and
freed, and that top-bough is lopped off the Tree of Tyranny, and
Kingly Power in that one particular is cast out. But, alas!
oppression is a great tree still, and keeps off the Sun of Freedom
from the poor Commons still. He hath many branches and great roots
which must be grubbed up, before everyone can sing Zion's song in
peace."

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