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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

are indeed the supreme power taken up into the throne of God living in the secret place of the most high That the most high God rules in you and gives his highest wisdome and justice to you And that you have a more exquisite sense of the good and evil of the Nation then any and more able to judge what is truly for their good and to resolve those questions and controversies which yet lie in doubt and darknesse amongst us And that you are in the power of God mighty to save them when men cannot being the people of GOD or qualified with a divine strength Though the Kingdome be miserably broken and those that have attempted to heal it through unskilfulnesse and unmercifulnesse have more abus'd the poor people yet there is hope in Israel concerning this thing There is balm in Gilead Though there be none in the waies of men yet there is amongst the people of God in Israel that is a prince with God and prevails over men Though the Sunne be turn'd into darknesse and the Moon to blond there is confusion shame and despair in and upon the greatest lights of the world Yet in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the LORD hath said and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call Joel 2.31 32 in the LORDS people a despis'd remnant is Englands salvation Therefore let them know that though through the floud of wickednesse that is broken forth amongst us religion be laid waste order and government in Church and Common-wealth be dissolved and the honour royalty greatnesse riches trade of the Nation be visibly lost yet there is a power with you that can recover all these into light and health againe to the satisfaction of all that desire to see good daies This al-creating al-restoring power is with us and wil not faile us in our worke Isay 58.11 12. The Lord shall guide thee continually c. Thou shalt be like a watered garden and like a spring of water whose waters faile not Thou shalt build the old waste places thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations and thou shalt be called the repairer of the breach the restorer of paths to dwell in There is a fountain and spring of the spirit of God that shall run over the whole Kingdome and not faile in any worke you are upon be it never so high great and honourable and all that is excellent in the Kingdome though it be sunke into the foundations yet you wil restore and repaire them again Fourthly I present you to the Kingdome and so must you present your selves to them as the fruit of their own womb The son of God begotten by the Spirit of God of this Nation form'd and shaped by the divine wisdome out of the bowels of the people Or that little stone a precious stone being irradiated with the holy and divine nature cut out of the mountain or the Kingdome without hands There is in you the life and spirit of the Kingdome the vigour and strength of the Nation her first-born you are the staffe and strength of her age and although of all the children that she hath formerly brought forth by her elections laws customes there is none that can take her by the hand and guide her out of her distresse yet you will kindely put under your shoulders to carry her in your arms to a place of rest Cast away therefore that vail of a party of any particular interest and looke forth in your owne true face a childe and heir of the Kingdome our owne flesh and bloud of tender affection to us and pity of us we have given you lite and being by our purses prayers persons councels t is our life religion estate cause bloud that runs in your veines and therefore you owe to us your selves life strength paines labours watchings and ought to lay them all out freely for us purely in love and repayment of the debt you owe to us And coming upon these terms as the childe of our travels pangs and distresses the childe of our desires and prayers the issue of many consultations affections disbursments feares hopes the first borne of our owne Lord and Husband God and bearing his owne image upon you holinesse righteousnesse goodnesse we cannot but with joy embrace you after our sore travels and afflictions and though many people dying in feare and despaire as Rachel call you BEN-ONI The Son of my sorrow yet your Father who lives will call you BENJAMIN the Son of my right hand Let the Spirit of the Lord file off your roughnesse and un-evennesse and blow away that dust that covers your beauty and we shal see you a stone solid firme and stable that cannot be broken by any devices or force a precious stone that contains in it all the interests all that 's good or worthy in the Kingdome That you are as cut out so laid by the hand and art of God in Sion a tried stone a precious corner stone a sure foundation he that believeth maketh not haste You have beene tried and are found precious and a corner stone in which all our rights are laid and so squar'd by God with that exact justice as to be a rule and square to the whole Kingdome and a sure foundation of an everlasting peace such a foundation as hath the whole building in it and this will make men stay upon you and believe in you not hastening after any other helpe or Saviour You are being formed by God of that true and intrinsecall worth that you have the prise of the Nation in you and that in spirit and so in the purest and best union which is to us a ground and bottome of true peace But you neglect this true substantiall union and are making another an agreement of the people which shewes a grossenesse and filthinesse of spirit not able to discerne the union of God in you in one heart and minde and not onely amongst your selves but of the whole Kingdom in their true and right sense and therefore are framing a carnall and fleshly one according to the custome of the Heathen a worke below the Lord and a descending into the earth to doe that which God hath done already most excellently You are a living Altar and a lifting up a toole unto it doth polute it The Lord is building a house which is from heaven and you know the patterne is in the Mount and is thence brought forth the stone it made ready and there must not be beard while t is building neither hammer ax or any toole of iron in the house this sawing and cutting to make an outward literall agreement vexes and wounds your spirits and tends to dis-unite you from the Lord and from each other The Lord is with you in union he is one and gives you true unity one soule and spirit Therefore stand up and come forth in that entire forme that the Lord hath cast you into in that image that he stamps