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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92861	Justice upon the armie remonstrance. Or A rebuke of that evill spirit that leads them in their counsels and actions. With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their waies, to the good spirit and minde of God. Dedicated to the Generall, and the Councel of War. By William Sedgwick.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1648 (1648)	Wing S2385; Thomason E475_34; ESTC R204449	51,573	59

the foundations of government that you are come to him that upholds the pillars of the earth You reach to the head of principalities and powers to the Lord who is the author and upholder of all these things he is in these poor broken and despised Ordinances of his and sensible of every blow that is given to them You have digged thorow the wall of flesh and men and broke downe that partition wall that divided them from God and now you are in the bowels of the Lord these miserable broken powers are now the Lord Goe on to teare and rend you will at last looke upon him whom you have peirced and mourne The King and Parliament cry unto God in their distresse saying Doubtlesse thou art our Father though Abraham be ignorant of us and Israel acknowledge us not Thou O Lord art our Father our Redeemer Though you in the greatness of your faith and confidence in your priviledges as high as Abraham and Israel in your literall forme doe not know them yet the Lord ownes them and will heare their cry and deliver them Your proceedings are against the Lord and though you say these things you do must be done till Christ come and when he comes then t is true there will need none of these things to secure your selves but as yet you must act as men In this you say your Lord delaies his coming and so drunke with your prosperity and victories you beate your fellow servants But here you will finde your Lord in an houre that you were not aware of You say he will come and destroy you and your waies in time but he is already upon you and your are not aware of it and cuts you asunder opens your inward parts divides the secrets of your hearts and appoints you a portion with hypocrites and unbelievers where is weeping and gnashing of teeth You act against God and God against you Your soules loath him his soule loaths you Finally Here 's nothing written but what is written in your hearts t is the opening your owne soules t is but what you have feard and that punishment which your owne humiliations and confessions have acknowledged just and due to you Nothing but what I have suffered for acting in those waies in which you are What measure hath been measured to me by Gad that doe I measure to you And as I lay it on you so I suffer it with you and shall be content to suffer till you are restored from this condition of shame and wrath to honour and love and dwell with you in these everlasting burnings which will purify you from all your filth Till then Farewell I am W. Sedgwick Justice upon the Armie Remonstrance THERE is and alwaies hath beene in all things in the world some good some evill some light some darknesse And in this declining state of things the world growes worse and worse and they that act for it and in it though under very specious pretences of justice are still more base and filthy then those that have gone before every generation having a more evill and lesse good then their predecessours I know there be many good men amongst you and that you have since the wrack of the Kingdome borne up gallantly as if you would out-live the storme That you have worne many favours of God above and against others That you have own'd your selves to be the people of God and God by many outward mercies hath own'd you But in this worke you manifestly shew that you have deeply revolted and that after you had escaped the polutions of the world you are againe entangled therein and over come And with the dogge returned to your owne and others vomit to licke up the filth of the world which others having drunke the Wine of the wrath of God have spued up You have beene exalted unto heaven and are brought down to hell You have back-slidden from a formall and carnall profession of the Kingdome of Christ living in God c. to embrace the taile of this present evill world to petty beggarly unbelieving malicious projects for selfe safety And as you have left God and waxed wanton upon his blessings so he now hath left you hath made your table to become your snare fatted you up by former mercies to receive your last and greatest judgements What you had is taken from you and your wisedome majesty largenesse and goodnesse that hath sometimes appear'd in you in other things is turn'd now into distracted stumbers dark and sad dreams of ruin into uncertain loose wandring fancyes of your owne wofull condition and absurd shadowes and vaine imaginations of wayes of deliverance Poore wretches though angry at you yet my soule pitties you never were men caught in such a snare of the Devill as you are glorying you are in your owne righteous cause and confident of your innocency and successe And indeed you are shut up in a pit of darknesse and already lost in divine displeasure As there are good men amongst you so there is I confesse some good lies scattered in this Remonstrance The Lord is in it But as two legges or a piece of an eare in the mouth of a Lyon So torne in peices and almost devoured by that roaring Lyon that wrathfull cruell malicious beast the Devill that it I should take paines to bring it forth to your view it would most displease and offend you you could not beare the sight of it but would your selves hate it therefore I will not loose my labour in it But the evill part is so grosse and visible that I can with most ease deale with it and for the present with most profit to you And when that heape of dirt and folly is brought forth and you made sensible of it the good that lyes now buried in it will be released and delight to come forth in you It will be the greatest mercy to the holy One in you to give a severe sentence against that wicked part that at this time prevailes so much in you In dealing with this worke of yours I shall not trouble my self to follow you in all those crooked wayes confused and multiplyed parenthesis dark and vain tautologies in which you are lost and grope But well knowing your principles upon which you goe as I finde them expressing themselves I shall shew you the evill and folly of them and that with such plainnesse as the wiser and soberer of you shall be convinced and brought forth the rest condemned in themselves and the world may run headlong to their destruction and dash themselves in peices against that rock of justice that fals upon them In the first part of your preamble you tell us of your tender regard to the priviledges and freedome of Parliament Wherein you deale very deceitfully with the world and conceale your owne principles For upon this ground you know you act that the powers of this world are to be broken into peices That the Parliament is one of

afraid We know none can hurt us having Salvation for wals and bulwarkes and can and doe live in the face of hell death Devils and not be disturbed yea seeke no other protection then the arme of God They are the sinners in Sion that are afraid We that are the people of God dwell in that mountaine where there is no hurtfull thing Our City gates stand open night and day and we feare no surprizes no designes can betray us we are not troubled to shut our gates to keepe out death evill flyes from us we need no black designs against our enemies to save our selves we do declare against all that walk in a way contrary to this That their wisdom is not from above not pure so not peaceable but is earthly carnally sensuall and devilish In this perplexed state you are in is seene your judgement is begun you have left God and he hath left you to these tormenting feares this is the wrath that was threatned upon you you are seeking selfe-safety t is your businesse therefore you uphold your Army to preserve the lives of the godly party and safety flyes from you God lookes every way upon you with sadnesse and wrath t is your wickednesse to thinke of or speake of safety in a worldly state you have beene taught otherwise and know you shall never have it you thinke you may use the meanes no all meanes are wicked that have an end contrary to the revealed will of God and this hath beene told your hearts that there 's no peace but in God This is a generall distemper and that which your friends are guilty of extreamly but T is the spirit of hondage to feare and not of love and a sound minde This passion sets you on work and therefore your businesse must needs be base and vile to act for ones selfe in any kinde is evill and un-christian but to aft for selfe-safety is so meane and poore a thing as it must needs produce most vile and absurd actions It is of all affections the unworthiest a deepe pit and causes blacke horrid and foule things I 'le shew you a little that rest and peace which we enjoy that security which you have turned your backes upon in refusing the Lord and for want of it are groping in these darke waves of yours First I feare no party nor interest because I love all I am reconciled to all and all are reconciled to me I have enmity to none but the son of perdition I oppose nothing but destruction and therfore nothing opposes me T is enmity begets insecurity and while men live in the flesh and in enmity to any party or interest in a privace divided and selfe good there will be perpetuall wars and strife except that particular should quite ruine all other parts and live alone which the universall must not will not suffer for the admitting a part to eate up and devoure others were to destroy the whole which is God and such a minde in any part doth not onely fight with another part but against the whole and so every faction of men striving to make themselves absolute do directly warre against God who is love peace and a generall good gives being to all and cherishes all and therefore in such opposition of fellow members and of God the God of peace and union there can be no peace nor securicy But we being enlarged into the largenesse of God and comprehending all things in our bosomes by the divine spirit are at rest with all and delight in all for we know nothing but what 's in our hearts Kings Nobles are much beloved because they are in us of us one with us we being Kings and Lords by the anointing of God Secondly We inherit all things having overcome we are free the Sons of God and all things are given unto us are our owne for our use the greatest as well as the least and therefore feare nothing being Lords of all To be in a state apprehensive of danger is to be a servant and while servants are quarrelling one with another beating one another their Lord is absent and they are in danger one of another This is the condition of all the world and of you in the Army and therefore are farre from Lordship true spirituall reigning yea hell deaths destruction it selfe is ours and doth us service In our great houses there are vessels of honour and of dishonour both usefull and profitable Captivity is become our captive death is become life confusion hath its beauty they are all excellent as wee in our house dispose of them and enjoy them our interest is publique extends to all and all are our interest Thirdly We live in heaven peace is in our wals and plenty in our palaces that word is performed to us They shall see evill no more wee know no evill in our Paradise not eating of the forbidden fruit all is good in all we see a smiling bright sweet face of majesty Wee live upon Mount Zion and it is large enough to receive our souls bodies estates lives families all is taken within the Gates of the Holy City and this City reaches all over the earth Here we enjoy all things all persons all actions we never goe out of it but live in the peace and safety of it continually And here there is no more curse nor death sorrow and sighing flee from us God wipes all tears from our eyes and enjoying this and all in this in truth and power we need no defence no safety but our owne rocke Our house which is from heaven Fourthly I feare nothing in the world because Greater is he that is in us then he that is in the world I have overcome the world it is at my feet I trample upon it If you finde any world in me you shall doe me right to afflict it break it Let it suffer t is righteous it should I would have no worldly thing that lives out of God have rest it s against my life and principle and by this I doe overcome it and shall never be troubled for the losse of it for I would have no inheritance no life or being but in the eternall world The world I know it is a poore shadow a fading thing and is onely terrible in the darke there 's nothing in it but it is more excellently and mightily in us in God Men Kings Emperours as they are in an earthly state we know they are wormes that shall dye mortals and trouble they may themselves not us They are not worthy of a caution to them that live above them or take heed Have they power so have we everlasting power and either theirs is one with ours or infinitely short of it you shew your selves weake and under them when you feare them Have they policy wisedome we have treasures either theirs is ours or else we can make fooles of them if they act not in our light we are and can when we will goe beyond them

you if you repent not but for the present occasion t is said there they shall be Truce-breakers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 against accommodation no treaty no agreement Or breakers of Covenant and then it followes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Accusers and at this you are exquisite Thirdly That Covenants being the strength of humane societies and so great bulwarks of the world degenerated or apostasied Religion is the great engine of Gods wrath appointed to breake them downe Solemne Oaths and Covenants are able to hold most mens consciences but men heightned by Religion into the forms of the spirit doing things by immediate direction from God carrying a glorious presence of God before them affirming that they are called by God to doe some speciall worke in the world these can easily mount above the highest forts of Oaths and trample them under foot presently Men that have tasted of these high things and begin to make them serviceable to worldly ends they are such cunning pick-locks that they can finde a way through all dores to come to the treasures of power and authority A people that have had a savour of heavenly things in a fleshly way turne them loose into the world and they 'l teare it up by the roots they are whetted for destructions such as are spoken of Ezek. 21.31 Brutish men skilfull to destroy such wicked spirits are now abroad that are brutish spare not the holiest nor honourablest things Kings Lords Ministers Scriptures Ordinances Oaths Covenants lay all waste and yet in the greatest brutishinesse skilfull though there be the most sensuall and beastly confusion yet they shall doe it artificially skilfully say t is for God justice religion c. and that they doe it by the power of Christ and the spirit of God in religious zeale c. and so exact that they will not be knowne from builders restorers reformers But the holy good wise mercifull spirit of the living God the Father of mercies will in his owne light condemne this uncleane spirit and drive him out of the land Having cleared your way to what you have to propose you give us your apprehensions of the remedy page 60. your first is to lay aside this evil and dangerous Treaty This is a strange remedy against civil warres to lay aside treating Then you require that the Kings demands be rejected especially that of his restitution to London This is very terrible to you that the King should recover any strength no keepe him downe as long as you can let him not rise how far is this from the power of godlines oracting in the power of God a poore pusillanimous cowardly worldly policy you dare not thinke of the King getting any power for then you know you durst not deale with him not barely in the power of God but he a prisoner and you free having an Army at your command you dare accuse him if he were in power you would shrinke out of the Kingdome whereas if you lived in the power of God you might trample upon Thrones if he were wicked pul him from his greatest glory and binde him in chains Secondly you would have that bargaining proposition laid aside and would have all justice done immediatly from the judiciall power of the Kingdome the Parliament and not by grant from the King you doe the King a courtesy in that and this being done you wish moderation and mercy not as long as there be any apprehension of fear there 's little mercy from fearful enemies mercy is in Breasts that are strong and mighty But page 62. you come to the marrow of the businesse to propound high things that sha1l reach us peace with God and quiet amongst men There was never such a mocking of God since the world stood for men that have professed Christ our peace so long as you have done should now tall from that atonement which you only talked of had not in power to offer up to God the bloud of men the bloud of men already in affliction the bloud of their enemies and that upon such principles to secure themselves to obtain and keep self-advantages 't is such a sacrifice as was never yet by the darkest heathens invented if you had covertly sought revenge upon him c. you had had some equals and examples for your fact but to doe the same thing in feare and revenge to remove an adversary and boldly impudently to bring it to God as a sacrifice to appease his displeasure and expiate sin is an unparalel'd wickednes and a project as foolishly contriv'd to quiet the people by taking away a Prince beloved of his people indeer'd to them by his sufferings whose government though ful of weaknes was far better then those that succed him a Prince strong in the affection of his Subjects and forain alliance and then when he is in a yeelding way to peace to give satisfaction to his Subjects yea when he is upon an agreement then to seeke the removal of him by death or deposure against the desires of the bodie of the Kingdome and of their representatives in Parliament upon the foul and black designs of a few unbelieving people that this should be a way to quiet the Kingdome it 's as far from policy as the other is from piety But to your Proposals first you propound That that capitall and grand author of our troubles the Person of the King may be brought to justice for the treason blood c. Two things we wil consider First Your Justice Secondly The person upon whom 't is to be administred First 'T is not justice that you desire it appears so to your blinde and deceived hearts but in the face of God it appears farre otherwise To tel you that justice must be done by law and that no law takes hold of the King will not convince you though to others it wil manifest that you that pretend to contend for the laws are the greatest violaters of them But the searcher of hearts will deale otherwise with you and shew you what 's within you and discover the falshood and injustice of your spirits First Know this for you have felt it that God hath a controversy with you that though you have done many things for him yet you are not perfect but there is some wicked thing to be purged out of you which is your glorying in that fleshly way in which you are God hath called you out of it and you have refused him and sunke down deeper into it blessing add strengthning your selves in it being unwilling to strip your selves naked of those carnal1 helps and advantages that you were engaged to or to suffer a losse of those glorious favours that you have received that you might have better but loving this present evil world and despising the Spirit of God and refusing his safety alone and to rest and live under his wings abhorring to cease acting in the flesh and to be perfected by sufferings You have by this joyned your selves