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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

mercilesse grave to all tyranny oppression to all ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse let all things that are just good holy and honourable incorporate with you receive a new life from you Know the Lord is upon his Throne amongst you and every one and every thing that is not his must be rejected Every plant that he hath not planted must be pulled up there must be no judge but the Lord and no rule of accepting or refusing but the divine law of the spirit of God What God will owne and say t is mine shall live and what he will disclaime must dye and the poore narrow minds and fancies of men must not be enthroned nor have leave to judge amongst you 4. So receive and retaine them as ready to restore them when they are tried and purified let it appeare that you are the womb of the Kingdome that will with labour and travell conceive breed and nourish it But that it is to you a burden and when the appointed time comes you cannot but desire to be delivered of it and that it is your sorrow to have it in you and will be your joy to bring it forth unto others By letting forth this publique and good spirit you will be carried up above that petty low spirit of malice or enmity to any you will kill and tread upon this serpent which is a base principle and unworthy of God and would keepe you downe in earthy and darke wayes but coming forth into the largenesse of God you will act in high noble and generous waies And by being thus enlarged you will be as the wals of the Nation inclose and imbrace all men and all interests and of a sudden gather up all men into your selves surprise and catch mens hearts before they are aware and begirt the Kingdom with your arms and binde up all her breaches in union with your selves and be a present ease and stay to mens sad and aking spirits that whereas they are now in a wildernesse and know not where they are they may of a sudden their eies being open'd see they are in the hands of a wise and good God taking care of them by his own people whom he hath blessed with largenesse judgement and goodnesse for their safety That men may see that though they are fallen yet not into a pit of utter destruction or not into the hands of enemies but unexpectedly upon a very good bottome a people having the tendernesse and goodnesse of the Nation and the firmnesse largenesse judgement and stability of God in them both in civil and spiritual things and discover a foundation a firm rock and beginning of peace and happinesse to the Kingdome arising up in the midst of us Thirdly Let me bring you forth too as the highest and strongest power in the Nation being superiour to King Parliament and All in a true and good sense T is God and Nature gives it you and you wrong the Kingdome and your selves till you come forth in a clear and free owning of it You darkly and in the twilight steal it by your actions but deny to professe it which subjects you to reproach and scorn as adulteresses and thieves if you could boldly and in the light and strength of God challenge it as your right and manifest it what is now fear'd would be imbraced Truths while they are faintly own'd and by halves are abused and rejected when they lie low in the dust and are obscured by darknesse are terrible and men flie from them but when we lift them up into our faces and give them a throne in our open and free possession of them they are lovely and acceptable and command subjection in all Besides the Kingdome is unstable and looks this way and that way for a head some look to the King and others to the Parliament and neither appears to head them which keeps them still in a wavering state farre from any staiednesse or setlednesse Now lift up your heads be upright stand up in the name and power of God and this will compose the divided and doubting mindes of men knowing where to fix and attract and ingage all to you for you appearing their natural and head cant be disown'd T is true you may be thought a Jacob a supplanter of your elder brother of his birth-right But you having the blessing too it will bear you out God gives it The smell of my sonne is as the smell of a field which the Lord bath blessed God give thee the dew of heaven and the fatnesse of the earth and plenty of corn and wine Let people serve thee and nations bowe down to thee Be Lord over thy brethren and cursed be every one that curseth thee and blessed be he that blesseth thee Shew forth that riches of heaven that light and glory of God and that fatnesse of the earthy that goodness power justice and kindenesse that is in you and then all power must bowe to you all will seek to you While you hold it forth in a night dream as Joseph doth his brothers sheaves bowing to his they despise and envie you for it but shew your selves possest of all the corn of Aegypt of all the good of the land and then your brethren there being a famine in the land of peace and righteousnesse they will be glad of you and come and remove all their substance to you into the Camp to be preserv'd and kept alive by that store at health and salvation that is in the presence and goodnesse of God laid up amongst you and in you Your halting in this point is very dishonourable and unsatisfactory to write your selves the servants of the Parliament and yet to exercise power over them And it puts you upon grosse and unseemly actions to patch and bodge to pick out and cull some from the Parliament that goe against you and leave others that are as unfit to govern as they you refuse only because they vote with you This hath great appearance of siding and partiality it were more justifiable farre to dissolve the whole and stand upon your own absolute and supreme power For while you goe as a Snail with that old house upon your heads you will never make any dispatch in your businesse they being in that state in which you own them an emptie vain idol of no use at all but will be a clog to you perpetually and make you formall low servile and tedious in all your actions Therefore ascend into that height into which you are call'd shake your selves from your dust of formal relations to other powers that are ground to pouder by the justice of God that you might come forth of them Loose your neeks from your b●●lls be no longer captives They have and God hath made you Judges and given you authority and dominion The mountain of the LORDS house shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be exalted above the hils and nations shall flow unto it It shall appear that you

justifie and take away sin and shame and hath healing in his wings gives life and strength to doe what he leades us to do 1. Seeing the Lord hath passed from other powers to you and exalted or set up you as the present standing power of the Kingdome and hath given himselfe to you and taken you up into his glorious presence then must you exalt the Lord publish declare the name of the Lord. Confesse him to be in the mid'st of you sound him forth evidently boldly aloud say the LORD lives with you that he is come to reigne amongst you gloriously Bring him forth in brightnesse and power let this oppressed one go free tell it to all the nations the Saviour of Israel is come to redeem his people from all their enemies you doe mutter it and speak it softly and by halves but declare it fully that we may heare the shout of a King in the camp that God himselfe is in you of a truth Let us heare the sound of that Trumpet in the Camp which the seventh last and blessed Angel sounds And those great voices in heaven saying The Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ and he shall reigne for ever and ever Doe you not in words but in power and truth cast your crownes down to the earth fall with your faces to the earth your crowne of successes victories lay them downe in the dirt being but earthly and your faces your excellency of honesty valour wisedome honour lay it down to the earth for t is but dust and doe you worship God live God confesse God exalt God his righteousnesse and power which is worthy perfect almighty Say and doe we give thee thanks O Lord God almighty which art and wast and art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned Rev. 11. Give tip your selves from humane weake and fleshly state as thanks or a free will offering to the glory and majesty of God to act and live the life of the Almighty put on the Almightinesse of God be cloathed with God Almighty and know the Lord is with you who art deny not his present being in power and glory in you and confesse he alwaies hath beene with you which wast and that which is to come that which is eternall and everlasting is present disjoine not these let not him that is now with you be another from him who is to come or from him who was but say and sweare in truth that he who is to come in all that he will doe is now present with you to doe it He hath taken his great power and hath reigned he hath already begun hath taken his last and great power and is in the exercise of it Therefore Arise and shine forth for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee For behold the darknesse shall cover the earth and grosse darknesse the people but the Lord shall rise upon thee and his glory shall be seene upon thee And the Gentiles shall come to thy light and Kings to the brightnesse of thy rising This lifting up the name of the LORD in you will have a very great effect upon others and your selves 1. Upon others Sad darknesse now covers the People of this Nation they are in perplexity not knowing which way to go Do you shake your selvs from the dust of your own vilenesse and put on the goodnesse power and wisedome of God and all people will flow in unto it for helpe and succour you will presently cause all to gather about you for reliefe The glory and light of God will melt the heart of your adversaries into love to you The sons of them that afflicted thee shall come bending into thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves downe at the soles of thy feet and call thee the City of the Lord the Sion of the holy One of Israel Holding forth the goodnesse of God you will be a joy of many generations revive the Nation now lying in a grave of misery And those that continue obstinate the name of the Lord will be a terrour to them fill their faces with shame and confusion 'T will be as lightning immediatly blasting and withering them 'T will pierce through their heads hearts and loynes and for ever disable them from any undertakings or practises against you 2. For your selves This presence of God will burne up all those low and base spirits that are amongst you covetousnesse pride self-love shall not dare to abide in the camp 'T will be an anointing to you filling you with royall and Princely minds create majesty power wisedome justice and truth amongst you fill you with light and understanding so that all your wayes shall be clear and plain before you and every one shall be more mighty then a hundred able to fill the earth with righteousnesse and truth Secondly You being the People of England and all power and dominion descending and coming downe into you You are the Mother of the Nation the earth basis and foundation upon which all lie and being thus in the light and strength of God you are Jerusalem which is above the Mother of us all And therefore must 1. Spread your armes to receive the whole Nation open your bosomes to us and let us see that you carry in you all the happinesse and welfare of the Kingdome manifest the largenesse and comprehension of your spirits that you have in you the King and his royalty the Parliament and their wisedome and majesty these two in Treaty nay in perfect union that religion trade justice order covenant settlement reformation riches honors propriety lies treasured up in your breasts What you have not gather into you all the offices treasure authorities seales judicatures all the prerogatives and priviledges of the Nation let nothing lie out of you and be lost but be you the center of all and call in all into you 2. Let it appeare that they are in you as in the Lord In the Lord in you and so are in you most excellently safely that though we have them not in a visible and sensible way yet let all know they are in you as corne sowd in the earth that you do embrace them all in your tenderest bowels of love and care and but entrusted for a time with them that as all have seene a seeds time a fall of the fruit and leafe so we may expect a spring as we have seene a death by you of all so we may hope to see a resurrection 3. Receive them and retaine them all in judgement make a thorow digestion of the good and evill of them all keepe them as in a fire by the sword of divine justice with the exactnesse of God cut off all evil things and persons separate the precious from the vile in the Common-wealth let nothing that is of particular or hurtfull interests remaine but be a

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