Cast out Hypocrisy, and Lust, and mere invented Laws.[133:1]
Then England sit in rest; Thy Sorrows will have end;
Thy Sons will live in Peace, and each will be a friend.

LONDON.
Printed for Giles Calvert, 1650."

Winstanley first gives a rapid sketch of recent events, as follows:

"Gentlemen of the Parliament and Army; You and the Common People
have assisted each other to cast out the head of oppression, which
was Kingly Power seated in one man's hand, and that work is now
done, and till that work was done you called upon the people to
assist you to deliver this distressed, bleeding, dying Nation out
of bondage. And the people came and failed you not, counting
neither purse nor blood too dear to part with to effect this work.

"The Parliament after this have made an Act to cast out Kingly
Power and to make England a free Common-wealth. These Acts the
people are much rejoiced with, as being words forerunning their
freedom, and they wait for their accomplishment that their joy may
be full. For as words without actions are a cheat, and kill the
comfort of a righteous spirit, so words performed in action do
comfort and nourish the life thereof.

"Now, Sirs, wheresoever we spy out Kingly Power, no man I hope
shall be troubled to declare it, nor afraid to cast it out, having
both Act of Parliament, the Soldier's Oath, and the Common People's
Consent on his side. For Kingly Power is like a great spread tree;
if you lop the head or top bough and let the other branches and
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 Prer