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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92865	A second view of the Army remonstrance. Or Justice done to the Armie. Wherein their principles are new model'd, brought out of obscurity into clearer light. By which the Army and the whole kingdome are under the conduct of the spirit of God, led out of a wildernesse to the view of a Canaan. / Dedicated to the Generall, and the Councel of War. By William Sedgwick.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1648 (1648)	Wing S2389; Thomason E477_20; ESTC R203531	33,932	41

your selves and this shall be our controversy hereafter I shall offend you by declaring a Righteousnesse in you which you you may say is too high too great and you be your owne condemners or being reconciled and establishing a Covenant of peace you will then be ashamed of all the evill that you have done 2. Know your sinnes lie upon the Lord they are his he beares them all there is none now under iniquity but Christ you are Righteous the Lord is your Righteousnesse there is a fountaine opened for sin and for uncleannesse to wash in That fire of jealousie in which the Lord appeared in my last hath judged and destroyed the wicked one and now appeares your righteousnesse That was an arraignment of the filthy Prince this is a clearing of the holy One and both in the power and truth of God 3. The consideration of your unworthinesse unfitnesse may be to you sad and troublesome it is to me glorious It being the great designe of God to visit his people in a low condition in prison in Babylon and to glorifie himselfe and the riches of his power and mercy to love freely to cover and take away iniquity to blot them out as a thick Cloud God now hath taken your filthy garments from you and cloathed you with beautifull garments and put a crowne upon your heads He gives you beauty for ashes You were burnt to ashes by the wrath of God here 's now beauty for you You are brought forth in your full proportion your originall your feet your first standing and your head the glory of the Lord in eternal praise The holy God takes pleasure to raise the highest buildings out of the lowest and poorest beginnings the more glorious the end the viler and deeper the foundation God that raised the first creation out of a Ch●os and established it upon the waters will raise the new heavens and new earth out of a weake and confused heape of waters a poore and despised people And there where men looked not for him will he appeare Out of Nazareth from whence no good comes from Egypt a place of thraldome and captivity And thou Bethlehem little among the thousands of Judah out of thee shall he come forth unto me to be Ruler in Israel This man shall be our peace when the Assyrian is in the land And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a Lion among the beasts Mic. 5. All which shews that the Lord chuses to manifest himselfe first in those that are beastly gentle ignorant meane despised people and even then when the Assyrian the man of sinne is in the land in them and upon them The Lord hath been with you informer mercies and in late sufferings he appeared amongst you in a spring of blessings since hath lyen downe in disgrace made his grave with the wicked and with the rich in his death he hath beene numbred with transgressours Your sins have slain your Lord your glory and your Lord by death hath borne and slaine your sins you have lien dead because Christ your life hath beene kild your sins but Christ hath died with you in you into you and Sampson-like by his death hath kild all his enemies your transgressions have made his grave there buried themselves and loose their destroying nature in him hanging upon him he how offers up his soule a sacrifice for sinne which is an acceptable and pleasant thing to God who is pleased to see our sins fall by Christs death and smels a sweet savour in that death that takes away the misery and griefe of his people and out of which he rises with them to glory and righteousnesse Now shall he see of the travail of his soule and be satisfied and by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justifie many he had not beene righteous if he had not died but dying under our sins he and we rising together are both righteous It satisfies the Lord to travail with you to travail out of your grave to be in death with you and thence to ascend to glory and it matters not if men be unsatisfied Be you unrighteous in your selves the Lord coming forth out of this obscurity and shining upon you you will say Surely in the Lord have I righteousnesse and strength even to him shall men come and all that are incensed against him shall be ashamed In the Lord shall all the seed of Israel be justified shall glory Confesse the Lord amongst you 't wil justifie you and strengthen you and then they that are incensed against you are incensed against him uncover his face clearly and all will be ashamed to oppose their Lord and so you may goe on in righteousnesse and strength glorying Your way hath beene darke and obscure to your selves and others here is light for you shewing you whence you come and whither you goe Mentioning you from the womb declaring your generation which hath beene cut off and shewing your end or that Canaan that you are going too The Lord is here a Sun and shield no good thing will he with-hold a plain path of justice mercy and goodnesse trodden out to you shewing what you must doe whith●r you must goe and what guide you have to direct you That you are now the mother and womb of the Kingdome into which all is cast and the Father of mercies saies you are the Father too and must bring it forth in perfect and eternall righteousnesse I have no more to say or rather I will ever say and say more strongly and plainly what I have here spoken weakly and darkly Behold the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world Say you to the Daughter of Sion Behold thy salvation cometh behold his reward is with him and his work is before him And they shal cal them the holy people the redeemed of the Lord And thou shalt be called sought out a City not forsaken T is your salvation that is come you shall see evill no more let all the world know it let the news of it fill the dark and troubled earth proclaim it openly he gives you a reward of all your paines and sufferings he brings al good with him you will need no supplyes but what he will daily bring forth to you And his worke is before him T is now cleare what he will doe reigne over the Nations in righteousnesse set up an everlasting Kingdome for the Saints that shall never be destroyed And all must owne you and confesse you to be the holy people holinesse that hath beene the worlds scorn will now be their saviour that which they have derided shall they now trust in your justice and faithfulnesse you are holy with the holinesse of God or holy as your heavenly Father is holy to raine downe blessings upon the just and unjust and to let the Sun of favour and salvation to shine generally upon all upon the evill and the good God hath sought you

upon you a living stone in all parts as polished so quickened by the spirit of God Lastly Let me present you and bring you forth as the Lords hoast in the great majesty of an Army in this most excellent forme in whom the Lord is as a mighty man of warre cloathed with zeale as with a garment stript out of ordinary common and cold formes of government and making bare his arme in the most terrible and masculine constitution of an Amy Glorious in his apparell travelling in the greatnesse of his strength red in his apparell and his garments like him that treadeth in the wine fat for the day of vengeance is in my heart and the yeare of my redeemed is come A DAY of vengeance this worke must be cut short in Righteousnesse quicke and speedy and that too in perfect union with salvation or redemption which must be long A YEARE it must last for ever The yeare of my redeemed it come 1. In this respect you must appear most absolute in your comands strong mighty and indisputable in your authority such is the government of an Army and t is proper in the worke you are in Dan. 4.35 And he doth according to his will in the Army in heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him what dost thou An Army in heaven that 's your place standing in God and inspired by the Spirit of God one with the heavenly hoast majesty or absolutenesse is but due here and that without danger when the Wise God guides your resolves for nothing must come forth but that which hath the face of God upon it and that in which divine justice and goodnesse doth appeare Being the Lord doth it who can say What d●st thou This excellency of God and all other glorious perfections are amongst us and must no longer be buried under humane weaknesse and the staggering blindnesse and uncertainty of the creature 2. You must appeare in greater terrour to evill doers then any power before you with your sword whetted furbush'd bathed in heaven made bright and glittering with the Spirit of God That it may aw dazle the eies of the Nation into a fear of transgressing Former swords have beene too dull to cut up iniquity wickednes hath sleighted and scorn'd them therefore must you appeare in greater severity every act and word of justice piercing to the heart searching 'tweene the soule and spirit 'tweene the bone and marrow to kill wickednesse in the root of it to destroy not onely the outward acts of injustice and oppression as contrary to our sensible and outward peace but their inward strength as contrary to the glory and goodnesse of God Not onely strike at humane miscarriages which are weake but at those Diabolicall wickednesses that are strong and the Father of these inferiour oppressions which you are able to doe having a sword bath'd in heaven and executting the divine justice and by doing this you shall secure the things you doe and for ever disable Satan to bring forth any more mischiefes upon us This is that you have harped at the fulfilling of that promise Psal 149.6 amp c. The high praise of God in their mouth This is excellent to have God in our mouth and God in his praise in his glory yea his high praise to speake forth the highest honour of God his highest last and utmost holinesse and justice And a two edged sword in their hand one of flesh another of spirit to cut up sinners with the one and sinne it self with the other The first is common to every Heathen the second the peculiar honour of Christ who hath before us'd it in his mouth but now in his hand hath declared preached it will now act it in deeds and so bring forth the inward sword of the Spirit and outward of the flesh to be administred together by one hand And by this shal you not only slay wicked men but wicked works or wicked things To destroy or cut off evil men only is Heathenish to destroy wicked workes onely and not men is Christian to cut off both together is the last great and perfect judgement of the world by this you shal doe that which hath been fore-told in Daniel 9.24 To finish transgression and to make an end of sinnes and to bring in everlasting righteousnesse so to break the staffe of oppression that the rod of the wicked should no longer lie upon the lot of the righteous or to destroy the wickednesse out of the earth root and branch that there may no more come out of their loins that sinne may be barren and childelesse this is the secure condition you aim at and that which is promis'd and wil be made good to you To set up such true and bright laws so holy and incorruptible in such power and efficacie as no ungodlinesse shal be able to passe thorow them or stand in the sight of them Such a majesty of the face of God will bring forth it self as will behold no iniquity sinne shall not abide in mens actions no nor hearts nay not in the first father of it Satan but in al it shal be utterly destroy'd This is not beyond the power of the Lord of hoasts with us but that which is our portion and prerogative and must be effected To set up the new Jerusalem in such brightnesse and everlasting purity as no unclean thing shall come into it nothing defile it As you shall come forth in flames of fire against all the workers of iniquitie so that not one shal escape so in walls of fire towards all that is good to defend and save it We have that one law-giver that can kill and make alive that can save as well as destroy preserve gold as wel as consume drosse be a Saviour of life unto life as well as death unto death to bring all the good of the earth into the good of heaven as wel as to cast the evil of the world into hel to loose the holy One out of his bonds as wel as to binde the wicked one in his T is a black and foul work to kil only and not to restore but this is our chiefest excellency to save what is good in al ●nd to bring it forth in a holy and perfect way to beget children that shall be princes in al the earth Or by the Spirit of God to beget Principalities powers Kings Lords c. of our own righteous and just nature and of greater vigour and power of righteousnes and wisdom then our selves in our own persons we are able in our God to stamp the divine image upon men to form them into the likenesse of God to convey our own spirits with our authority to impower with spirit as well as office and if we cant do that we can do nothing in truth nothing in God nothing different from the most common and ordinary Heathens and but that which will destroy us as soon