If any manifest such a power, he shall not be imprisoned, hanged, or killed. But the punishment shall be this. None shall buy or sell, and all the while every one shall have meat and drink and clothes. Winstanley's subsequent methodology, the logical praxis flowing from his critique and prescriptive perspective, was pacifist, which may explain why Digger reclamation of common lands met with so little success in a time of military rule in England. We will conquer by love and patience or else we will count it no freedom.
Freedom gotten by the sword is an established bondage to some part or other of the creation.
Victory that is gotten by the sword is a victory that slaves get one over another. Winstanley, in A New Yeere's Gift , in Works 378, 392.