given the swaying of the great affaires of your Kingdome to private and inferiour persons who have brought forth instead of Noble and Righteous Lawes a brood of low jugling tricks a rabble of Monopolies Pattents and such brats True thou hast exactly served thy personal relations a loving Husband a tender Father a constant Friend but hast been short in thy Office as a Prince the greatnesse of a KINGS heart hath been shrunke up and withered into the nature of a private man And thy private and Domesticall state hath drowned thy Publike and Royall As thou hast been defective in love and faithfullnesse so in sufficiency and ability of a Head Thou hast not dwelt with her as a man of knoweldge There hath been in the Nation many high and strong workings of spirit towards a greater perfection in Religion and Justice which though mingled with many unholsome vaporus and clog'd with great weaknesse might by an able head have been digested the evill being purged out into good spirits advantagious for the further grouth and increase of the body These are spilt and for want of wisdome to manage them the Kingdome spilt with them This Nation was of a fruitfull and teeming constitution apt to bring forth gallant and noble increase of light knowledge government great improvement in vertue which you in weaknesse of fear and jealousy laboured to stifle and in a superstitious opinion of former times confine this age to their example And being shy and not understanding the waies of God have left the body to her self or to other persons whence ariseth this hideous and misshapen birth in Church and Common wealth This universall disorder and confusion which the wisdome only of the Head and Father of the family can or could prevent I le but adde this one When thou hadst provoaked thy Parliament into a distemper by thy mis-government and estrangeing thy self from her then un-naturally un-Kingly irrationally un-christianly to forsake her betake your selfe to force an act so full of folly revenge so unbelieving so unlike God as along time durst not look up would not bee confest This cropt the sweet flower of Englands peace broke that great vein from whence such streames of bloud have flowed In sum The majesty justice mercy and goodnes of the great God hath not been held forth in thy Government but hid and buried in thee their appearing visibly in thee nothing but the weaknes inconstancy injustice and oppression of vile man Your evils have been great and so are your Judgements you are fallen into a deep pit of misery the chief offender and the chief sufferer great now in nothing but in losse and affliction You have slain the Kingly glory or the true glory of a King and therefore your Authority and dominion must needs die you have laboured to save an earthly greatnesse against Heavens displeasure the onely way to have it ruin'd to expose it to a multitude of stroakes of warth You have divided your self from your People your Parliament and so they become of a help a plague to you and are by others rent and detained from you You Idolized your Wife and friends and are therefore seperated from them Blasted and accursed in all your attempts Your Kingdome is full of miseries and you the Center of them all and must bear in all and for all Become the shame of the World by horrid confusion and distraction Deprived of all power of dominion Thy Revenue and dignity shared by others The majesty of thy Government like a Potters vessell dasht in peeces into Committees c. Thy Mame wounded yea buried under foul and black oblique become the scorne of Pampletters Thy Prerogatives and the highest priviledges of the Crown banded and tossed about the Kingdome in the mouthes and hands of common men When thou hadst left the Lord thy stabillity see what a race of misery thou hast run When thou didst leave the Parliament and wentest into the North Thy Sun set and another rose in England From that time its a dark night with majesty Kinglinesse is laid upon a sick bed and those Nobles gentlemen like blazing torches attending upon you All your waies then were weak faint sick-snatches at a Crown unnaturall and violent striving after a fading glory while your Kingdome lay wallowing in its own bloud At last the Lamp wants Oyle and Majesty dies and gives up the Ghost when you left your Regalia your Seal Crown Councel c. at Oxford now you indeed put of the state of a King and in the condition of a private person wander as a spirit in the Ayre till at last found in the North Apud inferos thrown amongst those leane hungry hagges the Scots who greedily devour this sweet morsel a King and in their ambitious and covetous lusts prey upon him Forced amongst those that he had little before proclaimed traytors and enemies to his Crown and dignity and were devils in his thoughts to him heer he is for a while tormented mockt with the title of a King but indeed a Captive nipt scurged and lasht with their rebukes tempted to blaspheme God in his own Royaltlty and at last valued at lesse then his quoin sold for mony into another hell He is resigned up into other hands Commissioners of the Parliament where he is again to be squeesd and wrackt by Propositions to give up the heart of Regall power ground tween the Milsiones of both Nations not admitted to come to his Parliament but Holdenby thrust into a corner while others frolick in his Dominion Now hurried into another hell snatched out of this as too honorable and taken away by agitators and common souldiers They must have their turn to vex this peece of misery They that had often chased him pursued him with death he must be their prey and be carried about as Army baggage They now will have the moulding of him and will cut out a new garnent of Royalty to cover his nakedness But t is shrunk in the making and they have disposed of the cloth to their own turnes Poor wretch frighted from hence by a new and strange fiend to Regallity Levellers and after another Pilgrimage he arrives at the Isle of Wight where he is again Imprisoned Labouring to please his masters studying how to content all parties and seeking favour and relief of all not forbearing being in great torment to ask the Levellers a drop of water to coole his tongue At last the pit shuts her mouth upon him in the Parliaments Votes to make no more addresses to him which is confirmed by the power of the Army and so forever rejected as an abominable thing never to be medled with Chap. V. Shewing the Parliaments errors WHen the King had involved himselfe in difficulties and weary of toyling to extaicate himselfe hee seeks at length to lay down his head in the lap of the Parliament and to seek help of his owne Spouse to compose the disorders of his Family And the
it in infirmity and weaknesse T was the true light shining in darknesse but the darknesse comprehended it not We knew not our own filicity God was nigh to us the Kingdome of God in all his glory was in the mid'st of us and we were not aware of it The Lord did Reign amongst the Children of men and they knew it not while he was present they set him of a distance and would not receive their own life but in enmity did cover the face of God the majesty and Kingdome of God and gloried in their poor shadow T was a beautifull but earthly vessel raised up for a time a temporary greatnes a corruptible Crowne that we have seen standing and flourishing in prosperity but its period of happinesse is come and you shall now see it in its declining diseased corrupt estate end falling Chap. II. Shewing the Kingdome of England in its corrupt and declining estate YOu have seen the fair inside of England now you shall see the filthy outside of it The holy God took it into conjunction and felowship now casts it off into rejection and reprobation In the first his glory shin'd in this its abominable wickednesse and wofull ruine appear This Heavenly glory being in love with the earthly shadow of it self desires to approach nearer unto it and to dwell with it in a more intire and perfect union and to swallow it up into it self that it might no longer subsist out of him but be found in him But as God approaches this earth fled from his brightnes being a fraid to be swallowed into its own Life and being weake and jealous of the great love of God chose rather to continue its old form and its earthly happinesse The goodlines and majesty of God was cloathed and hid in this worldly Kingdome as a treasure in an earthen vessel T was his pleasure to break the vessel to rend and tear the old garment that he might come forth and cloath that with his glory that cloathed him with its basenes But the Pot-sherd did strive with his Maker and would not yeeld or offer up it self to God but doated upon it selfe and its own beauty Therefore God threw it off into a dark and inordinate idolizing it self to a worldly and satanicall seperation from God and love of it self making it self the substance and God the shadow and so grew to an earnest minding of its present happines and threw off God into a strangenesse and distance not to be conversed with in this world but referd him to another making those two which God hath made one Hence grew in the whole Nation King and People in all parts an eagar love of worldly things and as God threatens to take it down that he might set up the heavenly so much the more earnestly did they cleave to it and fall further and further from God and more and more laboured to load themselves with thick clay and so the whole Kingdome in opposition to the divine will are in ambition and covetuousnesse set to advance their worldly state heer is the fatall breach betwixt God and man twixt Heaven and England This breach is made by the Devil the wicked one the God of this World by which the Kingdome is become Satans and divided from God And being thus cut off from its head and life God it cannot but fall into divisions The Spirit of God fayling the band of union it must quickly be in distraction There was a destroying in the whole but it first appeared twixt head and body Thus. All parts finding their foundation fayling and some disease and disturbance in the body each begin to stickle for it self and its own interest as distinct from the other The King having a misgiving that his greatnes did not increase but rather sinck thirsts after more absolutenesse thinks it a debasing to his Royalty to have any in conduction with him as good be no King as to be in dependance upon others and so growes weary of the Parliament The People finding their liberty and priviledge sinking too begin to be jealous of their Prince and accounting him a Tyrant afraid they were going into slavery finding an obstruction in the body that favour did not flow so freely from the head as it use to doe disdaining to be kept at a distance from Government and the affaires of States growing impatient of the Princes waies censure his actions and to have a longing itch after government Drawing thus severall waies there growes of head and members two factions The Count and Royall and episcopall party and the Country People and puritan party These two grow from jealousies and discontents to malignity one against another to watch for advantages one against the other and to seek the advancing themselves and the ruining of each other labouring all that the could to rob each other and to pull and snatch from each other to strengthen themselves and so growing to a deadly enmity and when the body meet in a Parliament and so head that party they are strongly divided and the whole Kingdome being shaken and broken fall to peeces according to the working of their severall and various principles To the King goes men of honour as the Nobility and Gentry much whose honour is predominate over their reason and Religion The Episcopall patty being Monarchicall growing out of the root of the King and paternall much the Fathers of the Church men of implissit Faith whose conscience is much regulated by their superiours men that are high and great admirers of Kinglinesse taken much with that Ordinance of a King And a vast number of loose men men of no Religion but the King To the Parliament men who of a lower state and exercising their own reasons in Religion zealous and wel-affected People men of industry and labour that love freedome and to be somthing themselves Men whose consciences are their owne and so strict in them Cities Corporations Bodies and men that highly honour the Parliament men zealous for generall and common Good And by the accesse of these Parties to each other they are strengthened in their opposition of each other and fitted for their mutuall ruine Chap. III. Shewing the Kings Errors The Kingdome being divided into two parties the King first carries away The Golden ball of Government who though taken off and seperated from his true Basis The King of Kings yet is assisted by a mighty Angell by whose help he rules awhile alone and with more good and lesse evill then those that succeed In which hee appeares in High and masculine vertue as a Father mighty severe and terrible The great and undoubted Image of God living in a supremacy beyond and above all questons honoured with fear and devotion But alas being alone he soon declines his good Angel leaves him and so not able long to manage the Scepter But oppressed with his owne guilt and the curse of GOD quickly is forced to resigne it to others It hath been the Kings
receive law honour justice and protection from my selfe you shall now see the beauty sweetnesse and goodness of my government I le be a King to and in every one of you And I le reign over you in and by King Charles I will take him out of the prison of Satans darknesse out of the pit of the world from all his vilenesse of lusts of oppression coveteousnesse folly fiercnesse wrath and from all his shame and dishonour from his evill counsellers wicked spirits that have seduced him to evil into my bosome and turne his heart as a river of water It shal no longer be mudded with evill counsellers nor with pride coveteousnesse cruelty but run in a pure stream of Divine justice and goodnesse and so largely and plentifully that it shall flow forth freely upon you Righteousnesse shall run down your streets A fountain of honour as wel as justice that shal give reall true not titular honour to his People that shal stream forth Majesty and greatnesse as freely into the whole Nation as the Sun doth beames he shall freely communicate Royalty that it shal be every ones and every one shal live in the view and enjoyment of it and fully satisfied with it it being truly his own A King enlarged with the largenesse of God that comprehends all his People as the sands on the Sea shore and is an Ocean of goodnesse and righteousnesse to cover those sands whose Armes of love can at Once imbrace the whole Kingdome every party and person that carries every English man in his bosome That impartially wil communicate favour to every one according to his true worth and ability to receive it of large wisdome fil'd with the wisdome of God of quick and piercing understanding to execute judgement in all causes one living in the light of GOD shin'd upon with the Majesty of God that he shal not be deceiv'd by flatterers but shal scatter all such mists from before the Throne that of all places wicked men and wicked things shal fly from the Court and presence of the King Of such tendernes that he shall really bear the burthens of all his subjects and every mans trouble shal make him restlesse that cannot be fully content til he hath fully satisfied all the wants of his People That is all mildnesse and gentlenesse to his own People as a Father and terrible only to your adversaries whose indignation is bent continually against the enemies of his People and his childrens peace a Lion to them but a Lambe a Shepherd to you A Prince Mighty with the Mightinesse of God able to do you good mighty in word and deed able to save you and to destroy them that hate you A King that hath no joy or delight but the good and prosperity of his People T is your happynesse only that is his Crowne that knows no glory but a loyall and loving People that is King only to make you happy and your happinesse is his Kingdome or health and prosperity in the People grows up into a lively flower of glory a King or breaths out it selfe in his Majesty So the KING is the breath of our nostrils That is indeed a King Anointed by God by and in the grace of God that is covered over with Divine grace that is nothing but what God is and hath all the Kinglines of God shining in him With whom and in whom you shal nakedly see the face of Divine justice and in whom the glory of God doth take pleasure to shew it self and not as another from him but in perfect Vnion in truth and righteousnesse where there is nothing to seperate nor part the earthly from the heavenly King but the earthly is in agreement in covenant with the heavenly living together in the same Spirit The heavenly God being intire himself and the King intire himself yet both but one in true marriage and conjunction for ever a bond and covenant that never shall be broken the King in God God in the King The King is what God is and God is what the King is neither alone God all in him he all in God He that opposeth one opposth both hee that loveth one loveth both exclude one you exclude both deny one you deny both disobey one you disobey both This is heaven and earth married together in harmony and agreement and the King that once appeared an Image of God a shadow in which he was weak and which he hath dyed to and the evill and corrupt part left in the grave hee is raised up in the very substance in Vnion in Spirit in Truth in Eternall fellowship with GOD. Chap. XVI Of the Parliament in its Raised estate ALL things are made new a new King and a new Parliament a new Head and a new Body a Heavenly body a Host of Divine excellencies in which all the perfections of the Son of GOD shines An assembly or body of Christ The fullnes of him who fills all in all not only a company of weak men But this is thy new name The LORD is there GOD is with us Christ in glory in Majesty Highly exalted Thou in whom are hid The treasures of wisdome thou sittest in Councell to draw forth excellent Laws for us and to rule in the midst of us One chosen out of the People in which meet in one the life spirit and wisdome of heaven The LORD is here challenging the Kingdome to be his here is gathered the heads of the Tribes a congregation of the first borne the chief and choisest Saints and Angels collected and imbodied into one Son of God The LORDS Christ he saith I am here your flesh and blood one of you I 'le provide and constitute wholsome Laws for you in this Parliament And this Parliament taken out of all its filth and guilt out of all its madnesse and disfraction folly and confusion out of the hands of the envious man that divides destroies from under cursed darknesse violence and oppression from the Peoples woe and curse I 'le wash it and cleanse it and fill it with Majesty and goodnesse make it a mountain of holinesse a City of Righteousnesse Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee Thou shalt no longer sit in darknesse Thy Sun shall go down no more thou shalt not stumble nor fall for want of light thou shalt not dash thy foot against a stone The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory The Sun of righteousnesse is Risen in thee with healing under his wings Thou now art Divine justice A habitation of justice where justice it selfe shal delight to dwell No unclean thing shall be found in thee living alwaies in the righteousnesse of Christ thou shalt be seperated from sinners blamelesse live in a hight of righteousnesse above accusation The Lord Our Righteousnesse The Saviour of the People thy walls shall be called salvation and thy gates praise sending forth saving health
to the whole Nation into every part that is pained or diseased a universal remedy for all malladies a skilfull Physition richly furnisht with the fullnesse of the Spirit of Christ to apply a plaster to every sore Thou now art all bowels a heap of compassions rowlling together of most exquisit sense of any burthen that lies upon us The Mother of England as the KING is the Father in whose womb our freedomes rights peace lyes from whose brests we shal suck milke of comfort riches ease quietnesse justice happynesse as tender of every one of your children as of your selves Thou art beautified with garments of salvation honourable glorious the joy of the whole earth Adorned now with such excellency that thou art a Queene indeed a compleat Second for such a First This thou art in perfect conjunction with the Divine nature in one Spirit with the LORD taken into the Nature and Being of the eternal Law-giver being one with the great Court or Councell of heaven Really truly being in the LORD and the LORD really and truly in you not in shadow that is destroyed but in substance not a naturall but a spirituall body not a earthly but a heavenly The Lord from heaven Now a holy and incorruptible body that cannot faile Christ is compleatly himself in you you are compleatly in him and compleatly one Lord one man one body one Assembly or Congregation having the same Nature and Person Chap. XVII Of the perfect Vnion betwixt King and Parliament and by them with his People in this new and raised estate THESE Two KING and Parliament by flesh and Satan were divided from God made un-like God set at distance from and enmity to GOD and at enmity one from another So now that flesh and Devill being destroyed the Spirit unites them truly to God in truth and substance and as to God so one to another This law oft he Spirit knits them and marries them both waies In this raised estate King and Parliament are in most excellent union joyned together in nearest bonds of felowship as Husband and Wife as Father and Son God and Christ In the greatest distance of these unnaturall breaches there hath been still a secret tendency towards each other your union was never so much slaine but it acted out towards an agreement And now there is a thirst in both after your selves in each other and a restlesnes of spirit attends you till you meet in that dark way in which you are in hel you are groping one after another in a feeble way of Treating and framing a net of spiders web to catch one another in in severall formes These are too weak to hold or binde you together you are both pittied that long for each other and can't enjoy each other especially the poor Parliament whose desires are after her Husband lusting for him and knows not which way to compasse him through fear and ignorance I shall but draw a vail a curtaine aside and shew you both imbracing each other The Vnion betwixt King and Parliament and by the mediation of Parliament with the People whom they Represent is strong and Inviolable It is admirable and delightfull They are one in Nature and Being and can never be divided As Christ saies of the Father so the Parliament may say The Father in me and in the Father Where ever the King is the Parliament is and the King can't bee without his parliament and People and where ever the Parliament is or People are the King is They are one and together in the greatest distance the Vnion is such that distance is swallowed up by it and comprehended in it The Son comes forth of Heaven and is in Heaven is in Heaven while out of Heaven and when alone yet not alone The Father is with me So the King and Parliament are asunder yet together and by their parting their union is enlarged not broken Their fleshly outward union broken but by that the inward and true union appeares and is brought forth In truth the Parliament is in the King and acts not moves not but in the King hath not cannot doe and the King is in the Parlament and naturally doth what the Parliament doth The King retires and carries the life and spirit of the Parliament with him and it is in perfection in him the Parliament withdraws and keeps close the King with her The King takes the spirit of the Parliament the Parliament keeps the body of the King and to narrow poor sense they are divided but such is the largenesse of the Spirit that delights to extend union into distinction and there they are and alwaies were more one in truth then they have yet appeared to be The former union was too weak and strait and therefore it s snapt asunder and the LORD now shews such a union as disjunction doth confirme and multiply while they are parted they are doubly one each upholding union in their being distinct and so manifests that they are so one as they are two likwise and in being two they are twice one each carrying the other along with him The King carries with him the power and spirit of the Parliament it being his and the Parliament the matter and body of kinglynesse that being hers the King hath the Parliament in night and eminency of forme the Parliament hath the King in lownesse and grosnesse of matter yea the Parliament hath the KING in his hight and spirit but covered over and hid under unity and lownesse of the matter so the King hath the matter in the excellency and unity of the forme And they so are in one another as manifests their union both languishing in desire after each other in such an absolute necessity of being together that the King can't act the busines of a King will not assume the work of a King but with his Parliament and the Parliament can't act in the power of a Parliament til they have the King Which shews that the union is still good so strong that they cannot bee but together in affection though parted in place and will not bee happy til they are fully together Their love lives at distance and distance is slain by unions being in distance their distance opening the foundation of their union and awakning the strength of love to shew it selfe in re-union so by a temporary division comes an eternall and inseperable conjunction as that parting of Christ from his Disciples It is expedient that I goe from you that the Comforter may come and he shall abide with you for ever Thus doth the Sea of the spirits love drown al your divisions and it abundantly triumphs over your breaches flowing in upon and in your breaches to the utter destruction of that plague of enmity You are one in originall in one Cause yea you are the cause of each other you are descended and derived from the same Father from the same Heaven and are again taken into the same Heaven joynt heires of the same
glory fil'd both with the same life begotten by the same Spirit The same Spirit that gives majesty and power to one gives the same to the other one fountain fils both your Cisternes two streames coming from the same head two twins lying in the same wombe of the Spirit and it is the same Spirit that lives in you both There can be no difference betwen you you have indeed but one minde but one heart Englands peace honour justice and greatnesse is the substance of both your lives you haue but one subsistence but one happinesse but one breath and ayre Englands joy Englands good you are not one now by outward Oaths and Covenants but by inward Oaths and Covenants by an everlasting Covenant that cannot bee broken The same God and Spirit speaking both or swearing both by himselfe bringing forth both perpetually in the same Oath by himself While he swears to save and deliver his People in England he sweares a good KING and Parliament bringing forth himself he brings forth you or brings forth himselfe KING and Parliament Being brought forth by Gods Spirit there will not come from such a fountain bitter and sweet waters no dissenting affections and bringing forth in both nothing but himselfe but one and the same justice one and the same goodnesse wisdome love to the People ther 's no feare of disagreeing and bringing this forth not in a dark and misty world where you have been subject to mistakes but in the cleare light of the Spirit in the calmnes quietnes opennes freenes of the Spirit there can be nothing but pleasure and mutuall delight in all As you are brought forth by one and in one Spirit so by one another as Man and Woman The same Spirit producing the KING out of the Parliament and so out of the People and the Parliament and People out of the KING As Man is by Woman and Woman of Man The Parliament and People is of the King taken out of his side and from thence formd and built The King is Father and we his children he is the first man in the Kingdome is before all Adam in whose loynes we all were and from him and of him we are our true Civill Father from whom we all receive our Civill beings in whom liberty property peace order honour authority is first originally and chiefly and so from him derived to us Especially the Parliament is taken out of him by his Writ from his heart is the Product of the deep thoughts of his minde which being gathered together are a Parliament As he is ours so we his originall Man is by the Woman The Parliament and People in their fullnesse of time when grown up into maturity bring forth a Government a KING The first-borne their vigor and strength and so property liberty order c. are first in us and then they arise out of us into him And by this continuall motion of the blood life and spirits of the body in a circular course the whole shall be preserved in a lively and lovely state All the strength and power of the Nation continually ascending and descending passing from us upward to the King and thence removes down again to us and so takes the nature of all perfectly refreshes the lowest and taking his meannesse and carries it to the highest to the head being there in-nobled and raised carries its Majesty down into inferiour parts againe and is the same River called by severall names in severall places as the Sea is one only distinct by the shore it washes upon This union by the wisdome and fulness of the spirit is brought forth not in a rude heap but in judgement and proportion in a sweet variety and in such harmony as they are the joy and delight of each other as Husband and Wife one flesh yet two persons so ordered and composed with a pleasant variety that the same which were it only the same and not another would be dull and fruitlesse being thus varied gives delightfull fellowship and profit Such is the fullnesse of this heavenly glory that it is One and not lesse but more in making another The King hath all power and authority and the Parliament hath the same without robbing the King the Parliament having in another way viz a second shall never clash against the first but being one the King hath it in the Parliament in another way then he hath it in himselfe and so his power is enriched and strengthened by it and t is no losse to the Parliament to give it to the KING her Husband whilst she gives it him he being hers shee hath it in him in a more excellent way then she can have it in her self And for either of these to have it alone would be unpleasant solitary and burthensome It s delightfull to see it and enjoy it in another we not so perfectly beholding our selves or loving our selves in our selves as in another sight love and enjoyment requiring another It is the content of greatnes not to be but to propagate greatnes For the King to rule alone can't be so acceptable to him as to conferre Dignity upon his own body his Seed It would bee irksome to have his greatnesse included in himself this is the most proper way of his propagating himself his Parliament and so a Parliament is his own choise his meet help by which he is free and without which he were bound to himself and in himselfe and so to be a King were but to be a pack-horse and for the Woman the Parliament to rule by assistance being called in the bosome and heart of her head pleases her should shee be alwaies in it and necessitated to it it would be her bondage she would desire to resigne it up to her Lord and her selfe choose an easie and pleasant subjection Thus divided it is encreased and nothing lessened but the burthen which while thus equally ballanced is no burthen but the safety of the whole For the King to be the root out of which the body of the tree grows the Parliament and out of her the People the branches and to send forth sap freely whereby the dody is supplied and so every arme branch and twigge that it brings forth good fruit wealth peace content honour power al kindes of prosperity for the King then the people to be the root the Parliament the body the King the head or top and the people to send up by the body riches honour greatnesse as sap into the head whereby he may bring forth fruits of Majesty Justice Greatnesse unto them and so the burthen and the fruit is divided and both be the pleasure and profit ef each other And so is England a Treee of life under which we shall sit and eat the fruit of it in peace and out of which we shall all grow and bring forth fruit of righteousnesse c. The order and manner of this distribution is excellent into a superiour and inferiour a first and second
two without this subordination would not be so safe so profitable nor so delightfull But being two subordinate one to another without offending each other yea to the advantage of each other is exceeding delightfull the King the Father hath all retained People the Son al dispenced in the first its absolute and intire in the second it s propagated enlarged spread-forth The Husband gives the Wife receives hee hath all and bestowes it she hath all and receives it The King saies ask what you will and it shall be given unto you so GOD saies to Christ chuse what Laws and Priviledges you will I le grant it That 's my word and Oath I have no negative voice I can't deny you But this is no wrong to the King for the Parliament being one spirit with him can ask nothing but what he is minded to give as prayers in the Church though GOD bee bound to give yet it s no losse to him because his own Spirit asks for we know not what to ask So the KING is the originall of asking and gives the desire of the thing that which moves the inferiour to desire is most excellent in the superiour and in this is the fulnesse of the King hee shall still call ask of ME and shall still out-goe the desires of the Petitioners and give more then they can ask his heart being more large towards his Spouse or Childe then his Spouse or Childe can bee to it selfe and that minde that is in the Spouse or Childe of good to it selfe is in the Father before it was in the Son and more excellently Neither can the Sonne ask any thing in this spirit that can derogate from the Father for thereby he should prejudice himself and weaken or lessen that power that conveighs good to him and so wrong himself most to wrong his head or fountaine from whence he is supplyed Neither is it any wrong to the Son to have it this way but t is the most perfect way of having it by asking it of another for thus there is a stock and treasure in which is store layd up that is the Sonnes riches the surest and sweetest way of having is by the easy way of asking T is the excellency of it that it 's a gift and that t is free or that it hath the Royall stamp of love and Authority upon it by which it is not a stolne and forced but lawfull and pleasant favour T is a free and ingenious subordination where the inferiour hath power to chuse what it will and chuses to have it in that way and not in another and hath that freedome in asking that is powerfull The woman hath power over the head to command by love and to say as Christ I will have it so and then t is most acceptable to the Father when it is most boldly and freely ask'd it being the great joy of the head to have the wife confident in his love And in this way there is and shal be a river of pleasure running betwen King and people or from King and Parliament and People wherein they shal do nothing but please one another The fulnes of the one compleatly answering the largenesse of the other And the KING having to give what ever the Parliament or People can desire and desiring them to receive as much as they desire him to give and taking more pleasure in creating greatnesse and freedome in them then in possessing of it himself it being his nature and place to give forth and without their receiving honour from him he were not a King and it being as pleasant to the People to receive it from a King it would not content them to have it in themselves but their Kings gift sets the price upon all favours they doe enjoy it s therefore sweet because their Lord bestowes it upon them This is the florishing estate of King and Parliament in their restored life living now in the glory of the Spirit and in union As God and Christ are of themselves are in each other and neither without each other but the Kingdome of both is compleated in their dwelling together in the third the Spirit where they doe continually delight in each other in bestowing themselves upon each other and are most happy in fellowship so 't is a heavenly blessednesse for Head and Body to be thus united and to give and take largely and openly to communicate themselves to each other The King in prosperity in health strength and pleasure is in breaking forth his Majesty upon his Nobles that have affinity to his greatnesse thence to derive it to the People this is a full King in hight bredth and a People ascending through the Lords into the bosome of the King is a People in hight and depth the body in prosperity and pleasure three states in one and one in three in perfect agreement and in compleat unity all make up but one fulnesse one Kingdome Thus each is a Heaven to himself and a Heaven to the other and this conjunction by this righteous law of Spirit the highest Heavens being all in the light and face of the eternall majestty This is the great and main pillar of Englands happinesse the foundation of our comfort which as its most excellent in its self so it will effectually change the whole Kingdome into its forme all parts must follow the condition of King and Parliament yea all are included in it in this our whole happinesse lies The body being thus in health it cannot but send forth nourishment into every part not a man in England but shall presently finde a reviving upon this agreement a new spirit of love joy comfort trade and prosperity is immediatly dispersed into the whole Nation every one leaping for joy in the goodnesse of God and the happinesse of the Nation Chap. XVIII Of the Cure of the People of the Land by this Death and Resurrection THE God of the whole Earth delights to doe great things and to fill the whole earth with his glory The great favour of divine presence of love and peace is not reserved for Princes alone but to be communicated generally to all People That all the ends of the earth may see the salvation of our God You the People of England have sinned Wee have all like sheep gon astray but God laies on him the iniquities of us all Wee see the zeale of Christ under your blinde rage one against another Christ in you in weaknesse and infirmity The Lord saith of you You are my People all my children your families relations comforts and persons are the Lords not one English man or woman but carries the Lord with him and in him The Land-Lord is the Lord of the Earth the Tennant is the Son holding of the Father all he hath The buyer the seller the rich the poor Master and Servant Father and Son Husband and Wife are all but various breakings forth of God and Christ and the severall enjoyments they have
with God God with him drink of this health freely and the whole Kingdome shall PLEDGE be bound to fill it again and drink down this heavenly liquor of the Majesty of God in the King into them and the whole people shall say and see it performed GOD SAVE THE KING The King is saved in God and God the salvation of the king This restoration fully satisfies the Parliaments Interest gives her high PRIVILEDGES She is called to an honourable state to live in the Lord Christ to sit with Christ in heavenly places to be one with the Son the body of God to be Jerusalem above the mother of us all and therefore FREE free with God and in God with the King freedome to enter into his heart and bosome to lye there continually The king shall greatly desire thy beauty Thou now hast POWER as well as liberty to make Righteous Lawes in perfect Righteousnesse that shall stand for ever such a King and such a Parliament as we have long beg'd to agree together in just things and in both we shall reap the fruit of our prayers which though they were sowed in weaknesse and now seem dead and rotting in the earth yet shall rise in power The great Interest of the Parliament the COVENANT is here fully satisfied The end that we looked upon HAVING THE GLORY OF GOD IN OUR EYES that glory is now manifest God in glory All Popery c. rooted out and the root of it Satan a thorow and perfect REFORMATION God once formed the Kingdome after himself in his owne likenesse in which it corrupted he hath taken down the old forme and sets up a new reformes us in State and Church now we shall have doctrin and disciplin according to the WORD OF GOD the true and eternall Word the Word it self brought forth and according to the example of the BEST REFORMED CHURCH The generall assembly in heaven c. We have the KING in honour the KINGDOMES heavenly and earthly UNITED and a strong bond that will binde these three and all the Kingdomes of the earth in one life law and peace By this THE POWER OF GODLINES is set up Godlines likenesse of God in Spirit in Power or God himselfe all things else being but a forme We have here PROPRIETY God our own God we restored to him and hee to us his own Vineyard Every one shall enjoy what he hath in peace and coveteousnesse the root of oppression destroyed every one shall have enough every one shall bee satisfied have so much as hee hath ability to beare and others shall freely part with that which hath been burthensome to them selves none have more then they want and all that they want all in such a condition place office as they are fit for as they are capable of Every one having a minde to his condition and a condition to his minde every one by Divine wisdome so disposed as he shall rest in it and not move after others there being no discontent but in hel which is in perpetuall motion after every thing and attains to nothing THE LORD SHALL BE ONE AND HIS NAME ONE in both Kingdomes There is now but one LORD all gathered into Christ hee is LORD indeed and his name written upon every thing in Church and State nothing but the Lord spoken and done amongst us in heaven and earth in England and Scotland The Spirit of the Lord running through these Kingdomes and through all persons in it ruling over all in and by himself the whole shall be called by this Name The Lord and so not only one man but one Lord there being nothing but the glory and righteousnesse of the Lord amongst us This is that which we have desired and attempted to set up THE KINGDOME OF CHRIST THE REIGN OE THE SAINTS The holy God holy Christ holy Spirit with holy men and Angels Reigning together This rich LO RD filling all Magistracy with justice all People with love our Ministry with truth our hearts with heavenly joy all our Laws with life and light our Cities with unity and wealth our Villages with plenty our Families with content our Persons with happinesse our King especially with honour glory safety ease of heart clearness of understanding a sweet injoyment of his Queen and Children the Parliament LORDS and COMMONS with perfect agreement majesty goodnesse love of the King and peoples prosperity This is a true PERSONAL TREATY wherein King and Parliament and all the people are together one person one body living in one Spirit Thus the Lord is Englands desire and Englands joy him we sought for him we finde God gives us all that we desir'd and more then we could ask or think of and that too in a more excellent way then we could imagine T is the Lords doing and t is marvellous in our eies T is the day of the Lord we will rejoyce and be glad in it T is thy self O God Englands life and soul and England is thy delight thy first-borne of all the Nations of the earth T is thy self out saviour and salvation T is thy justice hath took vengeance upon our inventions and saved in that vengeance T is thy power triumphing in our weaknesse thy mercy rejoyces in our deliverance thy wisdome shines forth that brings light out of darknesse turnes mourning into rejoycing makes our Tragedy end in a Comedy a seasonable deliverance now when all miseries and destructions are met together in our bowels a cleare Sun to break forth of a suddain out of such blackensse of darknesse as covered us Thou hast carried us through death to life yea through thy own death to thy own life T is by blood wee are saved by the blood of Christ Thou hast done all things well thy workes are all excellent and perfect Let the People praise thee O God yea let all the People praise THEE FINIS Poscript THese are the Leaves of the tree of Life that will give a new life to this Nation and will heale all her deadly maladies but the leaves not the fruit yet effectuall It 's written here weakely it shall be mighty in operation imperfectly expressed now but fully and accurately will it write forth it self in action T is death to resist them The rebellious do dwell in a dry land in hel Particular persons may be confounded the Nation is the Lords and shall be recovered hee that opposeth all the evils of the Kingdome shall gather into his heart and hee shall bee the common shore into which the Nation shall empty forth all ber plagues wrath and destruction leave the Kingdome and dwell there thou shalt cease tormenting the Nation and torment them that resist You see the Leaves I know you desire the Fruit that is indeeed the life of all you shall speedily injoy it all the glory and happinesse of this Nation beer expressed and of all the Nations of the earth and heaven too shall in its highest perfection dwell in every particular soul This and every peece of it and more ten thousand times then this shall in the purest and fullest glory of Father Son and Spirit Grown every Saint and fill his soul body relations calling businesse recreation and all with the Righteousnesse and Light of Heaven and the Face of God Errata Page 2. line 21. for were read weare p. 16. l. 25. for Mame r. Name p. 45. l. 2. for see their r. see their p. 55. l. 16. for Mation r. Nation l. 22. for them selves and families r. himself and family p. 57. for Chap. 11. r. Chap. 13. p. 81. l. last for a second r. as a second p. 82. l. 29. for dody r. body p. 88. 13. for stall r. shall The Contents CHAPTER I. SHewing the happy and flourishing condition in which the kingdome of England once stood and the ground of it pag. 1. CHAP. II. Shewing the kingdome of England in its corrupt and declining estate pag. 6. CHAP. III. Shewing the kings errours pag. 10 CHAP. V. Shewing the Parliaments errours pag. 18 CHAP. VI. Shewing the judgement upon the Parliament pag. 26 CHAP. VII Shewing the sinne and punishment of the People of both partyes pag. 29 CHAP. VIII Shewing the wickdnesse of the Ministery or Clergy and their judgement pag. 32 CHAP. IX Shewing the iniquity of the Army and its judgement pag. 39 CHAP. X. Shewing the state of the Levellers pag. 45 CHAP. XI Shewing the judgment of the City of London pag. 47 CHAP. XII Shewing the irrecoverablenesse of Englands ruine by humane wayes pag. 50 CHAP. XIII Shewing the method of God in curing the Nation viz. first to take our sinne upon himself pag. 57 CHAP. XIV Of the second thing in saving of the Nation The death of Christ and our fellowship in it pag. 62 CHAP. XV. Of the compleat cure of the Nation shewing it in its raised state and particularly the king pag. 69 CHAP. XVI Of the Parliament in its raised estate pag. 74 CHAP. XVII Of the perfect union betwixt king and Parliament and by them with his People in this new and raised estate pag. 76 CHAP XVIII Of the cure of the people of the Land by this death and resurrection pag. 87 CHAP. XIX The restoration of the Ministrie by Christs bearing their sin and by his death and resurrection pag. 90 CHAP. XX. Of the restoration of the Army Levellers and City of London pag. 97 CHAP. XXI Of the admirable fulnesse of this restoration satisfying all Interests FINIS