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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

as we have made it If we set up an earthly and fleshly form it will corrupt and turn enemy to us that exalt it except we set up God and set up in all the powder of God and all in the power of God or all quickned with the Spirit of God And being the hoast of God and having all fulnes of the Spirit or being attended with al the divine perfections we can and shall spread forth in the fruits of righteousnes And establish righteousnes in persons and things living righteousnes This is your true state and the first and least of it and lesse then this is not your righteousnes I cant speak or think lesse of you he that thinks or speaks less then this or contrary to this be it Satan in you or others blasphemes the tabernacle of God them that dwel in heaven This is your own life and all below it are fancies dreams and lies Babylon and confusion keeping holding Zion from her glory T is a blessed face of God and the light of his countenance shining upon you and I know there is another face which is the same in you that answers to this and though it hath bin vaild awhile the brightnes and power of this will scatter that mist and call forth its own self and likenes in you to imbrace this Righteousnes looks down from heaven here upon you we might question whether it would be received or no whether it would not be judged a fancy a conceit but that we know also Truth springs out of the earth the same spirit hath been acting a long while in you though under and in the earth buried under flesh but now wil come forth and answer to this or say t is ●r●th and make it truth in the performance You wil not say this is righteous in God he may do al this it is proper for him but not for us No righteousnes and peace have kissed each other you are r●conciled to this righteousnes the partition wall is broken down of two made one new man and so you cannot but receive and rejoyce in it mercy here meets with truth in your brests The heavens powr down righteousnes and the earth opens and salvation springs forth together The Lord is come down yea the heavens all the host of them al the stars of righteousnes and the same truth arises out of you and these together are salvation God out of you works but in weaknes in trouble so do you out of God both together bring forth salvation I shall I know meet with this objection from your selves and others that this will be true but not yet and that it is farre otherwise with you for the present t is that you expect but t is not yet manifested To this I answer That this truth is eternall and there is no moment wherein you can say t is not t is he that was is and is to come That therefore it is darknes that denies it or that 's a deepe pit that saies t is not here doe not abide in such darknesse of hel where eternall truth will not be admitted That as it alwayes hath been so it now is brought forth borne into the world the childe is born I have been long travelling for him and now lay him amongst you it is true it is in the Stable amongst beasts Swadled and lying in a Manger in a very meane and contemptible condition but I shall own him and nurse him and so will you I hope it is your own God and Saviour though wrapped up in flesh and in the midst of a beastly crue yet smiling in your face offered to you yea arising up in you And he whom you have sought for is now come into his Temple you have long conceiv'd him and travelled too to bring him forth and now Behold thy King cometh riding upon an asse receive him and say This is the Lord we have waited for him If you can yet say these things are brought forth in you but not in us we cannot owne them in power you may we are yet in the flesh t is your light not ours we live not in this glory nor can act in it we must goe our way No t is yours as well as mine and not mine as distinct from you but mine in you and with you for we have but one life one spirit and if it breake forth first in me t is for your sakes T is not a personall or private spirit but the Spirit of God and of all the Saints t is the life and soule of the Army and therefore you cannot be strangers to it sure so soone as you see it you will say this is our portion our rock our strength But if you are in the flesh and this glory be not suffered to act in you What 's the reason of it Who lets Is it not the man of sin If it be so then you confesse your selves guilty of what I have formerly written for this man of sinne is not a limb or member but a compleat man and so hath all sinne in him where flesh is it is a body of sinne having all iniquity weav'd together into one vail pride hypocrisy self-seeking enmity against God and all in the highest way of sinne whose coming it after the working of Satan with all power and signes and lying wonders and with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousnesse T is no lesse then Satan though with all power and signes of praying seeking God justice and lying wonders wonderfull great things but lying because separated from the eternall truth with all deceivablenesse of unrighteousnesse I know none righteous but God and all waies beside are to deceive And if this spirit be in you it is not idle it comes forth this bloud runs in the veines of al your actions the Lord said it of you long ago Ezech. 21.24 Yee have made your iniquity to be remembred in that your transgressions are discovered so that in all your doings your sins doe appeare And thou prophane wicked Prince of Israel whose day is come when iniquity shall have an end This filth lies not still but comes forth in all your actions and fils them with darknesse weaknesse confusion instability but an end it come of sinne and that wicked Prince is cast out I am pacified towards you fury is not in me I have no more to accuse you of If you now object as I doubt you will your being in the flesh your weaknesse inability to manage these high and great waies the sense of your unworthinesse and sinfulnesse obscuring this glory Observe this 1. You now are the accusers I have done I have nothing to say against you I appear'd in fury and jealousie against you and by that fire have purified you and burnt up that drosse that was in you it s all cast into the bottome of the sea I remember it no more it s under my feet I am above it and now I am justifying and you are accusing