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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
nature_n	flesh_n	person_n	union_n	3,543	5	9.2603	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92861	Justice upon the armie remonstrance. Or A rebuke of that evill spirit that leads them in their counsels and actions. With a discovery of the contrariety and enmity in their waies, to the good spirit and minde of God. Dedicated to the Generall, and the Councel of War. By William Sedgwick.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1648 (1648)	Wing S2385; Thomason E475_34; ESTC R204449	51,573	59

Lord that King and Parliament and People and all should be filled with the righteousnesse and goodnesse of God But these things are too good to be spoken of beyond your faith ever to see it But I 'le tell you if this be not your interest to have God all in all to fill every thing and to have all things offered up to him in truth and righteousnesse your interest and Gods are more divided then yours and the Kings and if you adhere to that you have proposd you forsake your owne interest and espouse the Devils the God of this world the Destroyer and will perish with him Thirdly This is a fault that you all along carry the interest of the publique in opposition to the Kings which is a wicked thing to divide them that God hath joined wherein you doe as sword men cut in pieces and indeed destroy and mangle not onely the Kingdome but the word Interest which is of a uniting signification inter esse is to be in or amongst each other The publique hath its interest in the King and the King his interest in the publique or they have the same esse or interest which is to be together in each other the King is in the people and the people in the King the Kings being is not absolute or alone but an interest as he is in union with and relation to his people which are his strength and life and the peoples being is not naked or solitary but an interest in the greatnesse and wisedome of their King who is their life and honour And though you will dis-join your selves from Kings God will not neither will I God is King of Kings Kings and Princes God as well as peoples their God as well as ours and theirs eminently as that spaech enforces God of Israel Israel God above all the nations so King of Kings Kings God more then of common men and by neare and especiall kinred and communion assuming their titles and honour and giving them his majesty and dominion Kinglinesse agrees with all Christians who are of a royall nature made Kings with Christ and cannot but be friends to it being of kin to it the children of God borne of the King of heaven are men of honour not in a base vaine way but in a true just way and if there be not Kings to honor they would want objects to bestow that fulnes of honon that is in their breasts would lose the greatest part of their delight which is majesty and glory would want occasion of expressing their high and noble spirits It 's a bastard religion that is inconsistent with the majesty and greatnesse of the most absolute Monarch and such spirits are strangers from the Kingdome of heaven and know not the glory in which God lives and are of narrow and evill mindes that are corrupt themselves and not able to beare greatnesse and so thinke God will not or cannot qualifie men for such high places with answerable and proportionable power and goodnesse You are indeed much in the flesh in a form of religion which is weake and of a parting nature cannot conceive nor comprehend things in union you are dividing still tweene heaven and earth 'tweene God and King you can't own them in union and so divide King and people but the spirit of God is large and reconciles composes gathers all into one into Christ God and man into one person head and members into one body This love you know not that embraces God and the King in one person and King and people in one body A fourth fault is in your further stating of the controversy 'tweene King and Parliament you bring in in the second place religion the order shewes the present frame of your spirits first the world and then godlinesse But in this you erre exceedingly in putting all the enmity against godlinesse and the power of it on the Kings part and charging it upon him as his interest and assuming all religion and godlinesse to your selves Upon this ground stands much of the controversy betweene the Cavaliers and you that they are wicked you godly they enemies to God you Saints they darknesse you light and therfore as you say afterward What fellowship hath light with darknesse This is a ground if it stand good of an everlasting quarrell and if it fals I hope some of the edge of your contention may be taken off The answer of this is as proper for me as any who you know doe well understand the utmost of the religion you walke in and have beene exercisd in it with as much exactnesse faithfulnesse power and comfort as any of you Your consciences many of you can beare witnesse of the uprightnesse and efficacy of my conversation amongst you and that I was when I was with you not onely a companion but a leader to you in the best things and since have beene tryed by very great sufferings and made a spectacle to God and men and beene publiquely set up as a marke for all men to shoot their opinions and judgements at and dare challenge the whole earth the Lord being my Righteousnesse to accuse me of any injustice to God or man and now must testifie concerning you and my self with you that that way wherein you walke is not the power of godlinesse but a poore weake fleshly form You are indeed Saints by intention counsell hope you aime at it looke for it but in your present state you are carnall and walke in the flesh in great infirmity that your state at best was but to be as the Jewes having a forme of knowledge according to the letter of the law which forme is now corrupted left and forsaken of God and you are become through blindnesse ignorance enemies to the spirit and to the Crosse of Christ You live not the life of Christ you are not dead to the world nay you oppose that death you will not suffer with Christ you have not the spirit of God walke not in your affaires in the wisedom and strength of God nor in the love of God you know not the minde of God have not communion with God what ever you doe or have done you doe it by the strength of man and not by the power of God and now lest to a poore blinde unstable way not knowing whether you goe your waies being darke and slippery and yet glorying in fleshly and outward things mistaking earthy and common blessings for heavenly and inward crying up the Lord the Lord when you doe the workes of the Devill The Holy God will no longer suffer you to wear those names of Saints and Godly but will cast dung upon your solemne feasts and curse your blessings and discover you to be but whited sepulchres and cause your rottennesse to come forth uncover your nakednesse before the nation that al may abhorre and loath that outward formall religion which you professe it doth and will more stinke in the nostrils of those people that have