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A92868	The spirituall madman, or, A prophesie concerning, the King, the Parliament, London, the Army; of the admirable fulnesse, and compleatnesse, of the restauration, and satisfaction of all interests. / Written by VVilliam Sedgewick.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1648 (1648)	Wing S2391; Thomason E477_9; ESTC R205532	11,474	16

to sit down by the still streames of Englands peace and feed in our green pastures of eternall love you shall if your valour makes you desirous of military actions we shall find enemies abroad to imploy your swords against and when you undertake such expeditions the Lord shall goe with you you shall have Angels spirits that shall make you invincible where ever you goe The Levellers grew out of the Army and are again shrunk into the Army and therefore we will now joyne you to the Army being mingled together In your endeavour to impose your Democracy your popular Government upon the Kingdome overthrowing overcurning all powers into the People We hear the voide of one crying in the Wildernesse England is become a Wildernesse all flesh is grasse all power is corrupt the Spirit of the Lord hath blowne upon it and its withered This is John Baptist that exalts the vallies and brings down the hils he brings all into the waters the People God is in these Levellers casting the Mountains into the depths of the Seas plunging all into a confused People not suffering one stone to lye upon another Thy place is to be in the Wildernesse and not to come into the City to expire and dye speedily to decrease that he that comes after may increase Thou art beheaded thy devices are fallen to the ground a mushrome thou wert little and art nothing What went you out to see A reed shaken with the wind growing out of the mire of the Nation or a man clothed with soft rayment People got into Kings houses In this state thou art vanisht lost and raised in the spirit of Christ the divine and eternall love of God and in this Kingdom there is a perfect Levell The People the originall of the Parliament and King by a free giving up themselves and their Estates to the Parliament and King are in the King and Parliament and fully partake of the royalty and power of both and are leveld with it The people give honour and glory to the King and so higher then he or he their Subject He that gives is greater then he that receives Heer all the people are one with that spirit that is kingly that Anointing that makes Christ King and so called mine Anointed living all in the liberty of that spirit that makes Kings and are most perfectly content in the Kings greatnesse being that which themselves constitute making it themselves they live in it and enjoy it And the King is levelled to the people by his sufferings or humiliations and by his love taking in every Subject to himself humbling of himself to be but the Kingdoms Servant and wearing his Crown only for the happinesse and good of the people living together and brought into one body head and member The eternall love is the Leveller Divine Charity that lifts not up it self but is lifted up and being lifted up drawes all after it I rejoyce in the healing thy breaches oh London thou honourable City Thy iniquities have been great there is a righteous one under them that will carry them without the City as a scape Goat into the wildernesse we see the Lord in thee in thy greatest filth in thy violent enforcing powers above thee to thy own mind in constraining the Parliament to thy will by bold Petitions urged with tumults we see darkened and shadowed the intercession of the Son of God who with violence wrests from his Father favour for himself and his people he comes with boldnesse to take what he asks and saies I will and the power that Saints have in Christ to command God in prayer In thy siding with the Parliament against the King and thy free powring forth thy self for her We see the excessive love of Christ to his Church who is ravisht with love and for her forgets all things else In thy ingrossing the riches of the Kingdom into thee thou are a shadow of Christ who treasures up wealth and riches of glory in the City of God for ur But thy glory is gon thy true life the beautifull presence of God hath left thee and thou art burning in flames of wrath jealousies envies divisions thou art wasted into a sceleton thy trade obstructed by Sea and Land thy People filled with rage thy bowells pained with fierce contests of parties pulling various wayes quite restlesse an unquiet Sea in continuall agitation The Lord dyes in thee the Lords delight thou wert his spouse thy glory and greatnesse it was the Lords he suffers in thy suffering and is covered in thy ashes lyes under the burthen of all thy wants is pierced with the necessities of the poor And thou art in the dust of confusion a ruinous heap the seat and place of vexation lying in a thick cloud of darknesse But his fire purifies thee in these flames thou losest thy filthy pride covetousnesse malice revenge c. Thou shalt not perish utterly The voice of God is heard in thee to revive thee thou shalt be built again Thy foundation shall be all of precious stones c. The glory of God shall shine in thee thou art now the City of God a righteous City this is thy name The Lord is there The Lord displaies his glory in the midst of thee The new Jerusalem in deed in truth in spirit in perfect union with God a heaven and so in union amongst your selves Peace within thy walls and plentiousnesse in thy palaces a City at unity in it self there shall not be the least found of discord in thee Thy nature is love light and holinesse The City of the great King made happy by the presence of the King and all the state and honour of the Kingdom Now open thy arms of Divine love and take into thy imbraces the glory of England Kings Princes Nobility Gentry Ministry Iudges Lawyers with all the wisdom justice power and excellency of heaven and earth let all flock together in one God one Christ one spirit one City and thousands of thousands of Saints and Angels dwelling in thee Nothing shall be heard in thee but mirth and joy in the Lord our God praises of the great King Open thy gates thy everlasting doores that the King of glory the Lord of Hosts with all his host of Princely powers may enter in And all the riches of the world shall slow into thee in thy trade naturally and abundantly the wealth of both I●dies and all parts shall seek unto thee and offer up it self to satisfie thee thou shalt be crowned with blessings all contents and pleasures shall continually run down thy streets and all in the sight and face of the holy God in the pure River of life All the works of God are perfect found out of all them that take pleasure therein The greatest and highest are reserved for us in this later and great day of God wherein it pleaseth the Lord to appear in his fullest and most excellent glory this of Englands salvation is a sweet bud of

THE Spirituall Madman OR A PROPHESIE CONCERNING The King the Parliament London the Army of the admirable fulnesse and compleatnesse of the restauration and satisfaction of all Interests Written by VVILLIAM SEDGEWICK Printed in the Year 1648. The SPIRITUAL MADMAN OR A PROPHESI CONCERNING THE KING THe Army is a particular part of the Kingdome and that temporary and occasionall and is by the bright shining of the Sun of Righteousness melted into a generall peace and unity but lying under a particular condemnation it shall receive a particular discharge And we know thy imployment is so irksome and unpleasant to thee To be the kingdomes Gaoler to keep War in and peace out or to stand in the way to the Tree of life with a flaming sword to keep men from the injoyment of their Liberty KING Peace though thou art commanded to it by God these things being yet forbidden the people yet thou wilt be glad to be released from it that thou and all other may come into the Paradise of God and feed together upon the fruit of Divine peace and love There is under thy assuming power over the Kingdome King and Parliament and all and in thy maintaining thy Mi●i●ary power above and against the Civill in thy seeking thy owne subsisting and attempting to be the Kingdomes Lord restorer The Lord cloathing himselfe with zeal as with a garment incompassing himselfe about with flames of fire A Man of War a Lord of Hosts Casting away his Fatherly Government because of the Nations rebellion in all parts against himselfe and ruling us with a Rod of Iron God marching before us out of Egypts slavery into a Wildernesse turning us from a Civil Government into a Wildernesse incamping in the midest of us administering Lawes to us as at Sinai in thundering and lightning clouds and darknesse so rerrible that makes all tremble A yoke that neither we nor our Fathers are able to beare And so we see Gods severity under mans iniquities And because it is the Lords Rod we kisse the Rod and love you for it Death is proper for this administration The Lord our Husband the Law dies we were bound to honour you so long as you lived in the power and goodnes of God The whole Kingdom bowed before you while you led us safely through the Wildernes But Moses cannot bring us into Canaan but must only have a view of it and dye at mount Nebo This power is weak through the flesh and cannot do it if you contend now to effect any thing it is but the Devil striving for the body of Moses you are labouring to set up an honourable carcasse or to call back life into a dead body Christ did come into it and hath offered it up in his owne body and naild this power fast to the Tree you are dead fixt to the tree of shame by the curse with your Lord and by death you shall overcome more then ever you overcame by life submitting to death your wils reasons lusts your seeking a worldly Kingdome your desire of Lording it over others by force of armes with all your projects are slaine and all enmity in you against others and others against you Death hath Disbanded you easd you of your hellish wrathful imployment Reconciled you to all and all to you brought you from being Turkish Janisaries to bee English men You are dissolved into a body of love into GOD you lye downe in the Eternall By this your arreares are paid you are nothing you are dead and you can require nothing you and your demands are fallen to the ground your service is dead and nothing is due to it but to be buried and all your miscarriages in forgetfulnesse Who do you require arreares of The Kingdome is dead the sword reignes and therefore the Kingdome is free if you will be paid take blood want spoile Confusion ruin that 's all that is left of the Kingdome pay your selves of that Do you expect it of the Parliament That is dead too Poore Parliament you have eat it up your selves in greedinesse of pay you tore her bowels out and you can have no more But all anger is past there remaines nothing but love you are dead and live with Christ come forth of your graves stand up in the resurrection of the Christ in union and fellowship with Christ The Lords host now the Lord is in you and you pitch your tents about the Lord and are the arme of God stretched out for his own defence and for the punishing of transgressors living in the strength and Spirit of the Lord and now mighty and powerfull to execute divine pleasure Now you are under the Captain of our salvation and at one interested in the salvation of the Nation and of Christ our Saviour Now we can pay you arreares you never stuck upon arreares till you sunk into the earth into poor earthly mindes rise you again into spirit you will count it your honour to help England freely Money and a Saviour cannot subsist together That Spirit of Christ that once acted in you to let go the Prisoners Englands freedome and justice without price or reward that spirit shall revive in you and then you will scorn to be mercinary I know you disdaine to keep Englands wounds open to suck her blood you have hazarded your lives for justice and freedom and can't now insist upon pay you are worthy your selves and have the worth of all with you if you desire pay enter with us into Canaan and you shall have Vineyards that you planted not wels that you diged not A land flowing with milke and honey such mercies and blessings as you could not expect The Lord is Judge he will audite your accompts and pay all that he owes you Religion flourishing in the purity of it peace and righteousnesse as Rivers and Seas the sweet holy unmolested enjoyment of your own families and estates in the presence and under the government of the most high You shall now subsist in our bowels be dissolved into the Church and Kingdome which is the beloved of Christ Terrible as an Army with banners terrible to the world and the God of the world to the Prince of darknesse and so we shall disband you into spirit and power the whole Nation shall be Souldiers able to draw the sword of the spirit against all forraign power amongst our selves wars shall cease from the earth you must beat your sword into plow shares an● spears into pruming-ho●kes to your honest trades again there will need no Iron or steely wrath but to plow up your own hearts and to cut down enemies within your own brests All our Towns and Cities are garisoned with a heavenly host and we have salvation for our walls and bulwarks we shall lye down in peace and none make us afraid while we need force we shall use you but not in civill wars you must be removed and only imployed in service against strangers if you delight

bondage to serve themselves and their own wealth That 's true wealth Common wealth And the People free living in the bosome of the King in his authority and greatnesse they have a true right to it as they have to any thing The Court is their Fathers house the Thro●● their own home where every subject dwels and lives in the Kings honour and presence Sixtly In this we have A right understanding between King and Parliament The wisdome of God to shew us a way of peace the true light shining from heaven upon us the night of our mistakes is past The princes of darknesse is thrown down and we are translated out of a kingdom of darknesse into the Kingdom of God in which we shall alwaies have the true wisdom to guid us Seventhly Here likewise have we AN ACT OF OBLIVION whereby all transgressions are blotted out all carried into the depth of the Sea where sinne if it be sought for it shall not be found such a fulnesse of pleasure and satisfaction as will not admit a thought of revenge if we shall remember past things it will be with joy and thanks to each other for in hurting we have saved one another wherein we have done evill to any it is turned to their good The KING will thank the Parliament for rising against him and the Parliament thank the KING for leaving of them There is GOD and perfect good in all that every party hath suffered HAPPINES it selfe England now hath a confluence of the riches of Heaven and Earth in one blessednesse England a glorious Land the Land of God abounding in store trade justice peace amity We are fallen but as hath been expected WE RISE AS ONE MAN England acted by one head one spirit is become one man every one loving another as himselfe and rising against the COMMON ENEMY the Devill the Destroyer who is and hath been our only enemy we hate none but him and by this RISING we free our selves from him As this satisfies the publick so every particular interest or all interests are here satisfied and brought into one interest which is the true nature of an interest to be in others a joynt or common subsistence every part made cleane and right and so interweaved into one intire garment which is the excellency of Divine works they are large and save all that 's a humane and devillish designe that saves one by the ruine of another but that is Gods way to save all so as the salvation of one is the salvation of another Now here you see all contented The KING as all have sworn and prayed advanced into honour and greatnesse freed from prison from chaines of darknesse wherein he hath been held brought out of a low dungeon of wrath and heavie affliction to the highest Throre of Majesty Person and Office restored from blacknesse and foulnesse to splendor and brighenesse into the Majestie of God and that performed which the Parliament often promised A GLORIOUS KING a KING in the glory of God or the glorious God the Immortall KING Reigning in man and over men Sir this is your true Interest it s your life and soule I know t is your heart though yet lying his T is the Key will unlock your spirit and bring it cut into the light and liberty of God unlock your understanding after seven times have passed over you you shall returne to your Threne and true Majesty shall be given to you and your Nobles and Kingdomes shall honour you all shall freely bow to you and you shall command Reigne againe to the terrour of your adversaries and joy of your friends now the Prison doores stand open to you and you shall returne to your Royall Parliament and City after seven yeares banishment We have now a King in whom we can confide as in God now the LORD lives in him t is impiety and wickednesse to have a thought of distrust concerning him the sure justice and righteousnesse of God in habits in the Throne as it s propet place We have a King according to our own hearts he lives in our hearts arises out of our hearts and our hearts give him his dominion he hath all we have and hath not too much because he hath us too and nothing but what we freely give one higher by the head then all the People having the wisdome of the whole in him of the largest understanding and therefore King because he doth in true worth excell any in the Nation and is of all men fittest to reign fitted by his great suffering and Gods fulnesse dwelling in him This is the QVEENS interest she may return to the King there is no feare now she cannot hurt either Parliament or Religion both being in such a condition as cannot be hurt besides living in this light of all she shall most love the Parliament It being the same with her self the Kings Consort she being the same with it concurting together in severall wayes to help and honour the King if she should attempt any thing against it it would be against the King and her selfe The Parliament administring about the affaires of the Kingdome that the King may enjoy his Queen and Family with greatest plenty honour ease and pleasure and the Queen administring in the domesticall affaires of the King about his Person that the King may enjoy his Parliament and people in greatest content and freedom The Parliament in businesse of State a Queen lying in the bosome of the King and the Queen in private and personall affaires a Parliament and so Parliament and Queen interested ioyn'd in one interest And for her religion we are now so far from being afraid of it that we rejoyce in it and in her great interest in the Papacie For as the Papists had by her designs upon us so now the stream being turned we shall by her design upon them and over-run the whole Papacie with light and truth she shall be the doore by which we shall enter into all the riches and honours of the Papacie and without injurie to them we shall spoile them of all their glory or rather bring a glorious fire amongst them that shall out shine theirs and burn up theirs into it self The Prince his Interest is here satisfied he is indeed one with the Parliament they and he are brethren descended both from the loyns of the King and are one in various forms each being the glory of the King ane the staffe of his age Christened at the same Font the Spirit of Christ both the hope and joy of England both being the glory of the King propagated unto eternity a never failing off spring and flourishing in the vigour and youthfulnesse of the Son of God both interested into Christ or the interest of Christ and so of each other The Lords who have lost their Nobility sunck in disgrace scattered and almost buried in dishonour by this shall be restored not to airy empty Titles but to true Nobility The Lord