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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

justifie and take away sin and shame and hath healing in his wings gives life and strength to doe what he leades us to do 1. Seeing the Lord hath passed from other powers to you and exalted or set up you as the present standing power of the Kingdome and hath given himselfe to you and taken you up into his glorious presence then must you exalt the Lord publish declare the name of the Lord. Confesse him to be in the mid'st of you sound him forth evidently boldly aloud say the LORD lives with you that he is come to reigne amongst you gloriously Bring him forth in brightnesse and power let this oppressed one go free tell it to all the nations the Saviour of Israel is come to redeem his people from all their enemies you doe mutter it and speak it softly and by halves but declare it fully that we may heare the shout of a King in the camp that God himselfe is in you of a truth Let us heare the sound of that Trumpet in the Camp which the seventh last and blessed Angel sounds And those great voices in heaven saying The Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ and he shall reigne for ever and ever Doe you not in words but in power and truth cast your crownes down to the earth fall with your faces to the earth your crowne of successes victories lay them downe in the dirt being but earthly and your faces your excellency of honesty valour wisedome honour lay it down to the earth for t is but dust and doe you worship God live God confesse God exalt God his righteousnesse and power which is worthy perfect almighty Say and doe we give thee thanks O Lord God almighty which art and wast and art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned Rev. 11. Give tip your selves from humane weake and fleshly state as thanks or a free will offering to the glory and majesty of God to act and live the life of the Almighty put on the Almightinesse of God be cloathed with God Almighty and know the Lord is with you who art deny not his present being in power and glory in you and confesse he alwaies hath beene with you which wast and that which is to come that which is eternall and everlasting is present disjoine not these let not him that is now with you be another from him who is to come or from him who was but say and sweare in truth that he who is to come in all that he will doe is now present with you to doe it He hath taken his great power and hath reigned he hath already begun hath taken his last and great power and is in the exercise of it Therefore Arise and shine forth for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee For behold the darknesse shall cover the earth and grosse darknesse the people but the Lord shall rise upon thee and his glory shall be seene upon thee And the Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightnesse of thy rising This lifting up the name of the LORD in you will have a very great effect upon others and your selves 1. Upon others Sad darknesse now covers the People of this Nation they are in perplexity not knowing which way to go Do you shake your selvs from the dust of your own vilenesse and put on the goodnesse power and wisedome of God and all people will flow in unto it for helpe and succour you will presently cause all to gather about you for reliefe The glory and light of God will melt the heart of your adversaries into love to you The sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending into thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves downe at the soles of thy feet and call thee the City of the Lord the Sion of the holy One of Israel Holding forth the goodnesse of God you will be a joy of many generations revive the Nation now lying in a grave of misery And those that continue obstinate the name of the Lord will be a terrour to them fill their faces with shame and confusion 'T will be as lightning immediatly blasting and withering them 'T will pierce through their heads hearts and loynes and for ever disable them from any undertakings or practises against you 2. For your selves This presence of God will burne up all those low and base spirits that are amongst you covetousnesse pride self-love shall not dare to abide in the camp 'T will be an anointing to you filling you with royall and Princely minds create majesty power wisedome justice and truth amongst you fill you with light and understanding so that all your wayes shall be clear and plain before you and every one shall be more mighty then a hundred able to fill the earth with righteousnesse and truth Secondly You being the People of England and all power and dominion descending and coming downe into you You are the Mother of the Nation the earth basis and foundation upon which all lie and being thus in the light and strength of God you are Jerusalem which is above the Mother of us all And therefore must 1. Spread your armes to receive the whole Nation open your bosomes to us and let us see that you carry in you all the happinesse and welfare of the Kingdome manifest the largenesse and comprehension of your spirits that you have in you the King and his royalty the Parliament and their wisedome and majesty these two in Treaty nay in perfect union that religion trade justice order covenant settlement reformation riches honors propriety lies treasured up in your breasts What you have not gather into you all the offices treasure authorities seales judicatures all the prerogatives and priviledges of the Nation let nothing lie out of you and be lost but be you the center of all and call in all into you 2. Let it appeare that they are in you as in the Lord In the Lord in you and so are in you most excellently safely that though we have them not in a visible and sensible way yet let all know they are in you as corne sowd in the earth that you do embrace them all in your tenderest bowels of love and care and but entrusted for a time with them that as all have seene a seeds time a fall of the fruit and leafe so we may expect a spring as we have seene a death by you of all so we may hope to see a resurrection 3. Receive them and retaine them all in judgement make a thorow digestion of the good and evill of them all keepe them as in a fire by the sword of divine justice with the exactnesse of God cut off all evil things and persons separate the precious from the vile in the Common-wealth let nothing that is of particular or hurtfull interests remaine but be a

ever it did in King or Parliament and will too be a guide to leade the Army into waies of common good and will enlarge their principles to a generall love of all and a desire of making all happy as themselves The Fifth and last particular is very considerable and is that which the evill spirit of darknesse hath obscured from the Army and the Kingdome and by it denied them the comfort and us the benefit of their being and that is this That the Army are the People gathered and united into a most excellent and divine forme Or an Army is a singular Ordinance of God appointed for speciall purposes and at this time raisd by God as most fit for those noble honourable and difficult works he hath now in hand For the clearing of this I would have considered That Army is a peculiar Ordinance of God wherein he hath a speciall delight and appropriates it to himselfe as a power that hath more neare relation to him and more immediate dependance upon him in which he will most visibly shew himself therfore chuses so often to be cald the LORD OF HOASTS And though they have a very dark and black out-side being the instruments of his wrath so they have a very sweet and precious in-side when God brings forth his owne name upon them and discover them to be his As the blackest afflictions have in them the choicest mercies the crosse of Christ hath glory in it and privation it selfe obtaines the honour to be a cause and to bring in new and more excellent formes so an Army that in the outside sounds dread and terrour yet hath riches treasured up in it which when we see we shall not fly from it but rejoice to have it neare us and to goe into it for subsistence 1. When God brought forth the first creation he cast them into this mould an Army and so laid the foundation of all his works in the camp Gen. 2.1 When he had finished the heaven and the earth and all the host of them In this posture hath he put all things not onely the stars above who fight in their order march in their course but the very locusts goe forth by bands The reason is that they might all quietly serve him under the protection of an Army and that if they be infested with any adverse power they might have force to retreat to In this military wisedome hath the Lord of Hoasts made and established the world 2. When God expresses his presence with his people in the world he manifests himselfe to be in a military state I will encamp about my house Pitch his tents about them so in a second middle or angelicall state he is an Army while he preserves us he gathers his Ministers about us in a body an Army 3. When he comes in his last and great glory he brings his hoasts with him and comes as a Generall and Lord of Hoasts thousands of thousands attending upon him all his Saints and Angels so that wherever the Lord appeares it is in this state either in the reare or lowest in the body or midst in the van or highest t is in this order the creatures a camp the Church militant a camp the Saints in glory a camp or host likewise In the providence of God in the world God hath made great use of Armies First They have beene the parents of all the Empires and Kingdomes of the world all the present Common-wealths upon earth must owne the sword to be their originall and confesse that from it they had their beginnings and t is rationall for an Army hath in it all government and all parts of government order justice c. in highest and noblest virtue and majesty Secondly As all Kingdomes come out of an Army so are much cherished and upheld by the same most Kingdomes flourishing while their military virtues are kept bright and cleare by use and quickly languish when the sword is wholly laid aside The presence of the sword keeping off destruction from them Thirdly As Kingdomes are begotten and nourished by Armies so doe they againe resolve into them as into their first principles And when by strength of wickednesse civill societies are disturbd they naturally retire to a military as unto their owne Father for safety for they have a peculiar majesty severity activity and masculine vertue or force to uphold a state against such evils as are in the world which no power besides hath And therefore Armies are not such hideous evils as some imagine but are beautifull glorious and exceeding profitable societies not onely scourges but saviours and protectors they have motherly bowels as well as iron hands and so in Gods raising and supporting this Army there is a most perfect wisedome of God casting his people into this form is very seasonable and proper for us at this time For we are at this time become a wildernesse the pale of civill power being broken down and men let loose to furious and beastly lusts such as would leade them to inhume and brutill villanies were there not this curb in their mouths nor could any man promise himself security in what he hath but that God is a wall about us in this Army And wise men wil easily see if sense of some present suffering or adhering to another side or party did not blind them that the violent and exorbitant lusts of men in this age is no way to be restrained but by this sharpe bit an Army T is true t is our wickednesse hath brought us to it but seeing it is so t is mercy in God to put himselfe and people into such a posture for our defence And this is the minde of God1 formerly decalred not onely to breake nations but to rule them also with an iron scepter 2. The worke that God hath now in hand is not an earthy fixt thing but he is upon motion marching of us out of Egyptian darknesse and bondage into a Canaan of rest and happinesse and therefore t is proper for him to gird up himselfe to contract himselfe from a vast body of a Kingdome into a narrower compasse into a few spirits in an active body such as an Army is loose and free from the clogge of old formes and customes to act lively his pleasure and to follow him into those new waies and pathes of truth and liberty that he shall lead them and because this work is attended upon with difficulties and through a wildernesse full of wild beasts and enemies on all sides it s his great wisedom to Arme himselfe and to imploy men skilfull at the sword as well as at the truel to build Jerusalem with weapons in their hands our great dangers requiring it And we know the beginings of God's great works of good to his people have been by Armies as their deliverance out of Egypt and Babilon in the same part doth he walk still and therefore doth he now in his last appearing gather his hoast about

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