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, Christ our
King of Righteousness in us, shall cause men to beat their swords
into plough-shares, their spears into pruning-hooks, and Nations
shall learn war no more. Everyone shall delight to let each other
enjoy the pleasures of the Earth, and shall hold each other no more
in bondage. Then what will become of your power? Truly he must be
cast out as a murderer. I pity you for the torment your spirit must
go through, if you be not fore-armed as you are abundantly
fore-warned from all places. But I look on you as part of the
Creation that must be restored; and the Spirit may give you wisdom
to fore-see a danger, as he hath admonished divers of your rank
already to leave those high places and to lie quiet and wait for