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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92862	The leaves of the tree of life: for the healing of the nations. Opening all the wounds of this kingdome, and of every party, and applying a remedy to them: by which we come to a right understanding between King and Parliament. A universal agreement and peace on all sides, and the kingdom restored and setled upon a sure and unmoveable foundation: by the light of God shining upon William Sedgwick.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1648 (1648)	Wing S2386; Thomason E460_40; ESTC R204719	74,614	130

In the Parliament Now is manifest the Son of GOD made flesh and dwelling amongst us Thou art here our Lord incompassed about with infirmities in abundance of weaknesse in temptations feares distresses in so poor a body as thou art not known to them they deny thee kill thee and know not what they do In this forme Thou comest to thy own and thy own receive the not Thou art in them speaking in such dark parables in such confused and un-understood wayes with such a rabble of oppressing Publicans Harlots and sinners about thee that thou art judged a Devil and to mention thee here is blasphemy to all men T is the cry of King and People Away with him away with him he is not worthy to live thou art here loaded with iniquity made sin indeed In the Parliaments assuming the power of the King his Prerogative his revenue we hear the Lord say All that the Father hath hath he given unto me All power in Heaven and in Earth The King is with us we have his power c. Christ saies in this dark poor forme The Father and I am one the Father is me the words that I speak are his and the works that I do He gives me to do them I come from the Father Thus the Son goes forth for a while appeares amongst men and the Father conceals himselfe and is not seen but in the Son and the Son challenging the honour name and power of the Father In the Parliaments undertaking the work of reformation and failing in it We now see the Lord in flesh coming amongst us and entering into The Temple and over turning the mony changers turning out those buiers and sellers those worldly Episcopall party that turn'd religion into a trade and worship into meer gaine and preferment prophesying anew forme a Kingdome but at last lost in it saying I have laboured in vaine I have spent my strength for nought and suffering under this accusation that he would destroy the Templets c. yea the Kingdome too And so the Romans come in and take away both our Place and Nation That he was a rebel to Caesar so crucified in shame betrayed sold and his Disciples leaving of him doubting his word saying We thought he would at this time have Redeemed Israel Our Lord is here in weaknesse failing in his attempts marred in his vizage more then any man so that all turne away their faces from him In the oppressing and confused Government of the Parliament We now see our LORD come not to send peace but a sword to set Father against Son and Son against Father c. Setting two against three and three against two requiring us to leave Father and Mother Houses and Lands for his Name threatning to undoe us and to strip us of all bringing of us to nothing wasting and spoiling the riches of the Nation so disolving of us that we must be borne again new-moulded in a baptisme of bloud In the Parliaments endeavour to preserve the Kingdome to uphold and maintain the freedome of it wee see the love of Christ to the World and his desire of saving it we hear him say Oh England England how often would I have gathered thee c. In the zeal and rage of both parties against each other we see darkly come forth the wrath of God against his enemies God fighting with those that fight against him the fiercenesse of the vengeance of Heaven against his adversaries cursing them raining snares and fire and brimstone upon them Thus doth the holy God dwell with and under the roofe of sinfull man Thou that knowest no sin art made sin Thou livest in those fleshly formes Thou sendest forth spirit and they are created And then doth blow upon them and they dye and wither lose their goodnesse and beauty and are tossed about as vanity as chaffe in the wind That thou mightest destroy them thou commest into the likenesse of sinfull flesh that thou migtest consume sin in the flesh appearest in flesh and so against it and under it that thou mayest at last save it And unfoldest the brightness of thy face and glory to be in perfect and undefiled purity in and under the vilenesse and basenesse of the creatures Chap. XIIII Of the second thing in saving of the Nation The Death of Christ and our fellowship in it AS God bears our sinnes so he suffers under them and we suffer in and with him and thereby is iniquity taken away T is by blood that we have remission of sinne God dwelt in the Kingdom The power of the King it was Gods God was in that majesty and dominion God was in the right and freedome of the Parliament in the peace and happinesse of the Nation in the wealth and honour of the City in the power and strength of the Army in the glory and order of the Church And God suffers in the death of all these he suffers with us loses in our losses not our blood alone but his is shed not our goods onely wasted but the Lords his they are and were and God is in union with them and suffers in them The Lord is made a curse for us our sin hath brought this curse upon God This is a sacrifice well pleasing unto God sufficient for ever to take away iniquity and to appease divine justice Though destruction should for ever wast England it would never be satisfyed but feeding upon the glory of God eating so deep into Englands sides as to reach the heart of God t is time for it to say I have enough let anger cease it doth feed upon God himself Cease to trample upon the head of King Charles God is there thou tramples upon God in him Cease to confound our Parliament Christ is there Cease to destroy the Nation t is a holy and heavenly Nation Now we are reconciled to God we were divided by death now one in death or God so loves us and is so neer to us as to suffer with us and for us our friend indeed that hath layd down his life for us The glorious love of our God is triumphing with us in and over death God is in our misery insulting over it O death I le be thy plague c. and so makes death sweet to us thou art now a lovely bed wherein our Lord and we being uncloathed of life lie down together death rends the vail and takes us into a naked enjoyment of GOD because wee could not live together our earthly in Gods heavenly Kingdome therefore must we die together we die because we have left God and he comes and dyes with us will not live without us but comes into the grave to us so that he might deliver us thence Thou destroying Angell proceed no farther The blood of God cries peace and you English mad to destroy cease crucifying the Lord of glory every wound you make Pierces the heart of God every sad and grieved spirit afflicts God every stone of scorne or

union the Son exalting himself from a poor minister a Carpenters Son to sit upon a Throne far above all principalities and powers In their pomp and state of living and worshipping God in an easy rich and brave way is darkly represented the glory of the Church Zion sucking the milk of the Gentiles having Kings and Queens nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers and bowing to the soles of her feet Christ in glory under this abominable filth In the Presbyterian rigid and harsh yoak of Government forcing the mindes of men into a observance of their Reformation We now see the severity of Christ and his strength and power his heat and zeal not contented with a cold formality but requiring every Sacrifice to be salted with fire a smoaky and dark shadow of the baptisme of the holy Ghost and fire Christ in power under miserable weaknes In the Independents uniting their Churches close into one intire body and keeping of them under their own immediate care and not suffering them to acknowledge any other power we see there lyes in it the pastorall care of Christ carrying his Lambs his bosome heavenly union Christ keeping his Spouse chast to himself his personall and immediate governing of them and his absolutenes and Lordlinesse over them Christ absolute and his people independent living only in and with himself In their sharp opposing one another being intolerable one to another is the zeal of the Lord of host seen his jealousy that is impatient of having his Spouse taken from him their persecuting one another a shadow of those stormes and tempests wherewith he persecutes them that take his Spouse his People from him In all these there are some particular excellencies of Christ scattered they have gotten each a peece of the seamles coat of Christ or else they could not be a rent or schisme but in all his visage is so marred his form so uncomly that he is there unknown to any even to themselves Christ bears their shame upon his own body on the tree in their shame and repoach he is reproached suffers deeply for being in such a filthy shape both from themselves and others all the honour beauty order uniformity of the Church is the Lord his face vaild and covered and now t is a ruinous heape he lies buried in it under divisions factions heresies reproach by all this his true body is broken pierced slain This is your sacrifice O yee Priests this blood must wash you and make an atonement and it is sufficient to take away your sinnes though as red as scarlet and put you again into white garments this will satisfy Gods wrath and then the rage of the Nation against you and the wrath one against another will dye Christs body is dead and you are dead you are spirit-lesse life-lesse a meer carcasse rotten sepulchers That which you fear is upon you the Witnesses are slain by the Beast coming out of the bottomlesse Pit The carcases lies in the streets of the great City scorned trampled upon your shame un-buried where our Lord was crucified Dissolved and broken amongst your selves from the People and most from the Lord your live in a miserable world and not in Heaven which only is true life and with you dies the false Prophet the deceiver the Father of lies and all the delusions of the devil and all insulting pride coveteousnesse worldlinesse malice persecution and vaine glory and by this fire of God upon you shall you be purified and cleansed By death the partition wall is broken down betwixt God and you betwixt your selves and betwixt you and your People Of two God and man heavenly and earthly priesthood made one Priesthood one new man The vail is rent and you are now admitted into the holiest and of many kindes of Priests you are one Priesthood one tribe one body in many members one Christ and you and People are one Clergy one lot and inheritance the people Priests with you and you people with them all the Lords People holy their jealousy and enmity your pride and loftinesse being taken away God will not suffer his holy one to see corruption But will raise you up together with Christ Levi shall never want a man to minister before him If you can break the covenant of the day and of the night that there should be no more day nor night in their season then may also my Covenant bee broken with David my servant c. and with the Levits the Priests my ministers The night of their calamity shall be followed with a day of rejoycing And though the Sun have set upon the Prophets yet it stall rise again David and Levi shall have heires Christ shall have Kings and Ministers Kings propheticall or priestly anointed with fulnes of spirit for both and Priests Regall or royall to govern the house of the Lord. Now Joshua thou great high priest and thy fellowes men wondred at I le take away thy filthy garments from thee and will cloath thee with change of rayment I le remove thy iniquity off that land in one day and bring forth the branch The Lord and all his twigs growing out of him full of the Spirit of God in the compleatnesse and fulnes of the spirit seven eyes upon one stone much light and understanding The Lord himself shall be the Temple ministers people gifts all we shall all worship in the house of God for ever now are you Divines indeed holy men men of God one with the holy divinity shining in the brightnes and majesty in the wisdome and judgement of God Anointed with holy Oyle cloathed with beautiful garments of righteousnesse truth and peace Now raisd out of the dust as the stones of Zion as dried bones restored to life by the Spirit of the LORD God sends a plentifull rain showers of righteousnesse whereby thou wilt confirme Levi thine inheritance when it was weary The Lord gives the word Arise and great is the company of them that published it Though ye have lain among the pots Kitchin Priests that have served for the belly Now as the wings of a dove covered with silver and her set hers with yellow gold Winged now with the Dove the Spirits strength in the purity and excellency of silver and gold by heavenly and holy gifts we shall fly aloft and live alwaies in the clearnes and light of God not in the basenesse and foulnesse of the world Christ ascended on high and will give liberal gifts all kinds Bishops Presbyters Independents Apostles Evangelists Pastors c. yea for the rebellious also that the Lord God may dwell amongst them God streaming himself forth in all varieties of Offices and Officers none in vaine all filld with grace and power Now in this restored condition all one with God indeed spirituall and heavenly of pure gold And one with and amongst themselves as Stars of severall magnitude moving in there distinct Orbs all glorious lights yet differing in an excellent variety one from another

from his Father favour for himself and his people he comes with boldnesse to take what he asks and saies I will and the power that Saints have in Christ to command God in prayer In thy siding with the Parliament against the King and thy free powring forth thy self for her We see the excessive love of Christ to his Church who is ravisht with love and for her forgets all things else In thy ingrossing the riches of the Kingdome into thee thou art a shadow of Christ who treasures up wealth and riches of glory in the City of God for us But thy glory is gon thy true life the beautifull presence of God hath left thee and thou art burning in flames of wrath jealousies envies divisions thou art wasted into a sceleton thy trade obstructed by Sea and Land thy People filled with rage thy bowels pained with fierce contests of parties pulling various waies quite restlesse an unquiet Sea in continuall agitation The Lord dyes in thee the LORDS delight thou wert his Spouse thy glory and greatnesse it was the LORDS he suffers in thy suffering and is covered in thy ashes lyes under the burthen of all thy wants is pierced with the necessities of the poor And thou art in the dust of confusion a ruinous heap the seat and place of vexation lying in a thick cloud of darknesse But his fire purifies thee in these flames thou losest thy filthy pride coveteousnesse malice revenge c. Thou shalt not perish utterly The voice of God is heard in thee to revive thee thou shalt be built again Thy foundations shall be all of precious stones c. The glory of God shall shine in thee thou art now the City of God a Righteous City this is thy name The Lord is there The Lord displaies his glory in the midest of thee The new Jerusalem indeed in truth in Spirit in perfect union with GOD a heaven and so in union amongst your selves Peace within thy wals and plentiousnes in thy palaces a City at unity in it self there shall not be the least found of discord in thee Thy nature is love light and holines The City of the great King made happy by the presence of the King and all the state and honour of the Kingdome Now open thy armes of Divine love and take into thy imbraces the glory of England Kings Princes Nobility Gentry Ministry Judges Lawyers with all the wisdom justice power and excellency of heaven and earth let all flock together in one God one Christ one Spirit one City and thousands of thousands of Saints and Angels dwelling in thee Nothing shal be heard in thee but mirth and joy in the Lord our God praises of the Great King Open thy gates thy everlasting doors that the King of glory the Lord of Hosts with all his host of Princly powers may enter in And all the riches of the World shal flow into thee in thy trade naturally and abundantly the wealth of both Indies and all parts shal seek unto thee and offer up it selfe to satisfy thee thou shalt be crownd with blessings all contents and pleasures shal continually run dawn thy streets and all in the sight and face of the holy God in the pure River of life Chap. XXI Of the admirable fullnesse and compleatnesse of this restoration satisfying all interests ALL the works of God are perfect found out of all them that take pleasure therein The greatest and highest are reserved for us in this later and great day of God wherein it pleaseth the LORD to appear in his fullest and most excellent glory this of Englands salvation is a sweet bud of it a little taste of that infinite Majesty that is now breaking forth in the glorious appearing of God In this businesse the Lord satisfieth his own Interest who is Alpha and Omega the first and the last and this is the rock of our pleasure that thou art pleased and satisfied Thou reignest thou art King this is thy due all power and dominion is thine t is thy right to have all all are thine for thee they were created and made King Parliament Lords Commons Ministers People all sorts all sides all parties are the Lords and thou wilt reign over and in all from Sea to Sea from one end of the Earth to the other as lightening shining from East to West so is thy Kingdom and thy glory is now due to thee that thou shouldest appear not in weaknesse to serve men but in thy great Majesty in thy highest honour thou must now shew forth plainly thy self in thy utmost most enlarged goodnesse power wisdom Nothing now will serve thee but to be ALL IN ALL To be All thou art in Heaven in all the Earth to bring forth all thy riches to fill every creature all glory in all things Thou art all in Earth as well as all in Heaven all in King in Parliament in People there is nothing but thy self in these thou art Bishops Presbyters Independents all these and all in these all Majesty power glory justice in the King and all the same in the Parliament and all that too in the People thou art all the labour strength riches freedome in the People all this in the Parliament all the same in the King all night and all lownesse Thou art all wisdom Authority Government in Bishops all care zeal labour in Presbyters all love union absolutenesse in Independents and all these in every one thou art the same in all ALL IN ALL All in darknesse all in light all in weaknesse all in strength all that every part is all the wholl is all the wholl in every part and all Heaven all Glory all peace all quietnesse all love all goodnesse in all these parts and wholl Lesse then this generall and near union and mariage will not satisfie thee being thy self satisfied thou doest satisfy all and being pleased thou pleasest all thy content contents every one because thou art all art content it self in all Thou hast shaken all Nations and the desire of all Nations is come We have been shaken into peeces and every peece shaken out of all order and peace Thou art good that thou doest but shake only rends that thou mayest make way for thy selfe to enter and for all to enter with thee into every part What we desire we have we can desire nothing but the Lord nothing is desirable but the Lord the Lord we have and in the Lord wee meet with every desirable thing the desire satisfied which if a tree of life God was our desire which is now interpreted being brought forth into performance and enjoyment God the bottom and top the desire and desired meeting in one Spirit and Kingdome GOD the root in our desires grown up into the fruit attainment The interest of this whole Kingdome in this restoration is satisfied and that consists in First PEACE a sure Peace a well grounded Peace here you have the richest jewell of peace that heaven hath