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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	king_n	law_n	parliament_n	20,781	5	7.0144	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92863	Mr. William Sedgwicks letter to his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax, generall of the Parliaments forces, in prosecution of his answer to the remonstrance of the Army.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?; Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax, Baron, 1612-1671.	1649 (1649)	Wing S2387; Thomason E536_16; ESTC R203731	3,226	8

Mr. William Sedgwicks LETTER To his Excellency Thomas Lord Fairfax Generall of the Parliaments Forces In prosecution of his Answer TO THE Remonstrance of the ARMY Printed in the Yeere 1649. My Lord YOU drive furiously over the necks of King and Parliament Lawes Covenants Loyalty Priviledge and no humane thing can stand before you You are now fac'd by the majesty and light of God while you are asleep in a dark night of earthly affaires You have appealed to God in your second Declaration but did not expect so sudden an answer 'T is eternall and almighty truth that must and will prevaile if you come into it 't will save you if you turne from it you forsake your own mercy if you oppose it you dash your selves in pieces you cannot go from it or besides it but into the darknesse of hell The Lord is here obbraiding your unbeliefe but mourning over his Jerusalem with love to your persons but with fierce anger against your practises I would you had those lively and fresh evidences of your personall and everlasting good in your owne breasts as I have your eternall state is sure 't is your present wandrings that are here condemned Blindnesse hath happened to you in part and this is the time of casting you away you will have a time of being received againe you are now broken off through unbeliefe you will be graffed in againe 'T is your falt now you shall have a restoring you will wonder to behold so much goodnesse to your enemies and so much severity to you Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdome and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes past finding out I have reproved you sharply or cuttingly it 's proper for you with vengeance to save you and to pull you as firebrands out of the fire your condition requires it Gentlenesse is abused mercy despised you have a long time trampled upon kindnesse and obstinately refused the word of the Lord You must remember my Sermon to you at Windsor upon that Text. Overturn overturn overturn 't is Scripture still and that word lives in and upon you Saltmarsh his message quickly followed it Depart from the tents of these unrighteous men he lives still And Mr. Pinnels Admonition from the Lord following that These and other testimonies against you have been sleighted and disobeyed your sinnes grow greater and the anger of God hotter against you your reprieve is not your salvation you are growne to a height of confidence and presumption upon your successes your necks are as iron and your browes brasse and you walke uncontroulable in your way triumphing as the onely Princes in the earth as sit to sway the Scepter of England and all nations as the onely righteous honourable people in the world the great Lords of the Land Therefore it pleases me to powre contempt upon you to be shod with scorne and indignation and so trample upon Princes as morter Except I should deale thus with you you would not be sensible of what I say being hardned against mercy and having done all you have done against love Prosperity slayes fooles and therefore the rod is fit for their backs I know my dealing is just and righteous to such as you are being as Phil. 3.18 19. Enemies to the Crosse of Christ seeming friends to his Gospell Ministry and Kingdome but enemies to his Crosse You hate to thinke that those faire beginnings of your peace and deliverance should come to end in shame and death you cannot thinke of leaving your hopes of outward glory and lying downe quietly to let the world trample upon you This you count folly whose end is Destruction Destruction you practise 't is your worke 't is your end you cannot see beyond it and you are hastening to it it is the center to which you tend and therefore I cannot but shew it you that you may stop your course before the pit shut her mouth upon you whose God is their belly Your faith understanding God is sunke into your bellies and your rule your strength your confidence is only in sensuall and bruitish things your raised spirits into the things of God are buried in an inferiour region of grosse dull carnall affaires and except I should pierce deep your slow bellies would not find eares Indeed you are so lost and drowned in sensible things of the world and so eager in seeking for those things your belly your carnall affections require of you that I doubt you will be deafe to what I say Whose glory is in their shame you are full of glory in your great things that you have done wonderful things a mighty presence of God But in sum what is it You have torne a poore sinfull Kingdome in peices You have executed wrath upon your Brethren Friends and Country-men You have laid desolate your Father the King the Parliament your Mother your own Country this is your glory to be executioners Assyria the rod of my anger What a crowne is this Have you restored blessed healed comforted saved any No you have but plunged the Kingdome and your selves into a pit of darknesse and confusion When the things of God are proposed to you to suffer for others to love enemies to do good to all to blesse all you glory in your shame and say you serve the Lord in this and there be lower as well as higher dispensations You are indeed servants of God so was Nebuchadnezzar so is the Devill and you do the work of God but 't is base drudgery 't is his strange work to be instruments of his vengeance and t is a lower dispensation indeed to dispense curses not blessings to be below in hell exercis'd in the wrath of God not above in heaven in the glory and love of God and for sons heires so you would be thought to take pleasure in such mean employment is vile and unworthy Who mind earthly things this is another property of yours your minds are now captiv'd to the earth deep in the lower parts of the earth pleading the earthly cause of earthly people or digging caves and holes in the earth to secure an earthly peace to your selves ' Its high time to withstand you and to rebuke this destroying Angel for 't is not men only that suffer from your violence but the Lord your sword goe so deep That it peirces thorow his soule also You are gone so far in dissolving 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 poore 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 Go on to teare and rend you will at last look 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 greatnesse 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 hear their cry and deliver them Your proceedings are against the Lord and though you say these things you doe 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 drunk with your prosperity and victories you beat 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 you 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 loathes you Finally Here 's nothing written but what was written in your hearts 't is the opening your owne soules 't is but what you have fear'd 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 God 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 so dwell with you in these everlasting burnings which will purifie you from all your filth Till then Farewell I am W. Sedgwick