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
of his Christ Above all the Nations this of England with her two sisters Scotland and Ireland is with peculiar favour seperated from the World Being an Island imbraced with armes and Seas of righteousnesse peace safety and the knowledge of God The bosome of the earth where the divine glory chuseth to treasure up his richest Jewels His private lodging whereinto he delights to retire himself and out of which he pleases first to arise and thence to proceed to visit the whole World Nothing heer but is spoken by God made by the Word of God and doth again speak God A fruitfull and beautifull Earth meeting with and married unto a pleasant and powerfull Heaven in a healthfull and temperate Spirit and Ayre doe bring forth abundance of excellent fruit Especially those rich Flocks of Sheep that cover the Earth shewes the Soyle to be the Lambs and to were his Livery and so to be his Store-house from whence he will cloath the world with garments of Salvation In the disposition of the People of England shine many sparkes and beames of divine majesty ingenuity and freedome gentlenesse and mildnes zeal and devotion gravity and wisdome stoutnes and courage noblenes and greatnes of spirit aptnes for generall and high undertakings which renders them feard honored and beloved abroad and fit instruments of good to the Vniverse As other Nations are furnisht with mines of Gold and silver England with rich minds full of true worth indeed a Race and seed of heavenly Lords obscured under earthly infirmities yet so as their luster doth discover it selfe and shine out But that which indeed exalted us to Heaven was this That this excellent People in a happy Country were by the Ministry of mighty Angels moulded into a government after the pattern of the highest and perfectest glory of God in Father Son and Spirit Or to make England a happy Canaan Father Son and Spirit agree together to dwell in it and to bestow themselves upon it in their severall fulnes and doe themselves vail'd and covered over with fleshly formes unite and govern us in righteousnesse and peace First the Father advances the King in his own likenesse and by living in him makes him to be Pater patriae the Father of his Country the Head and Supreme The Husband and Lord of the Kingdome In him as in God the Father is all the Majesty Honour Justice and Riches of the Kingdome 1. In unity bound up close in one Person all in its Center hence it comes and hither it returnes 2. In Head and Fountain the originall from whence honour and justice flowes 3. In Priority or prerogative in him as highest and Supreme 4. But more hid and deeply conceald not so outward and visible as in others Hence is the King the Anointed of God God eminently I said ye are Gods in nearest conjunction unto God The greatest representative of God His Vicegerent Next under God in immediate fellowship with God God and the King Secondly The Sonne appears in the People especially as they are form'd in one Representative the Parliament and by his fulnesse makes them the Body of the Head The Wife the Spouse And so gives them all the Majesty Honour justice and Riches of the Kingdome and that that is in the King to be in them 1. Divided and multiplied not bound up in center but drawn forth into circumference and come forth in many 2. In stream and flowing forth for the use and benefit of others 3. In second place in subordination to the first 4. Imbodied and drawn forth into open view more visible and manifest unto others Thus are they the Kings yoak-fellows a meet help have what ever he hath his Son and heire And being raised into a Parliament by the Kings Writ are then fit mediators tween the King and the People by whom the People offer up gifts to the King and the King gives favours pardons and priviledges to them Thirdly The Spirit the third Person he by the Law and by mutuall Covenants bindes these two together and is the marriage that joynes them or the house of love in which they both live in peace and happines with each other and disposes both into a just and equall distance yet a perfect agreement or give them both to subsist in proper and distinct Rights and both in union together that they both fully have what is due to them and both have what each other have the same and that equally without robbery without injury or wrong to each other The Law gives to the King his Prerogative his authority in unity in Fountain c. And diversifying or multiplying give the same in another way to the body and yet takes nothing from the King So gives it to the King as is most advantagious to the body and so to the body as is most advantagious to the head The body hath it best in the Kings having of it with that honour safety and union as shee cannot have it in her self And the head hath it best in the bodies having of it with that fruitfulnes and strength that he cannot have it out of them Yea in this Spirit and Law in this bond of perfection they both have it in each other and could not nor cannot have it long nor well if they have it not together The Royalty of a King as a fountain freely giving it self into the Authority of Parliament as a husband giving himself to his wife and the Parliament only being what shee receives from the King so they mutually nourish support uphold each other and being divided and seperated they presently wither away and dye They both have it and both give it the body gives it to the head and receives it from the head in severall waies and this is its life and perfection that it passes by vines and arteries from one to another and are knit together by nerves and sinewes so that what honour the King hath he gives to his People and what riches and substance the People had they gave it to the King the People honorable in the Prince and the prince mighty and strong in the People The body breaths sees tasts c. in the head the head workes walkes and digests in the body Thus the Trinity are truly The foundamentall Lawe constitution of the Kingdom which is the cause of ability strength and peace of the Kingdom the Pillars that kept it upright the health and soundne of it where by it was able to subsist in prosperity and florish in it self and to defend and maintain it self against enemies from abroad In this estate we for a while flourished and enjoyed a heaven upon earth or an earthly heaven a sweet figure or shadow of the Kingdome of glory and but a shadow yet such a shadow as was in union with the substance King and People being knit together by the Spirit and by the same spirit knit to God Christ Such a figure as had the original living in
of Christ or his People Paul in case of greater difference then these outward formes of Government wish'd himself accursed for his brethren but you in the spirit of Satan blaspheme and curse one another Both upon false and alike hipocriticall grounds The Bishops pretending tending the peace of the Church conformity Oath subscreption obedience to the Kings Lawes And the Presbyters Reformation Covenant uniformity and obedience to the Parliaments Ordinances but mainly t is your intolerable pride that cannot bear any to dissent from you a conscience guilty of your own weak foundation that makes you fear that every one will supplant you and earnest contending for self-honour self-security and wicked malice against your Brethren They are but fellow servants not judgess as they presume though they beat their fellows Both servants living at a distance from God in the World not upon the Throne in Heaven and but fellowes set each to do their severall works in their severall waies and that much upon equall tearmes though they admire themselves and think highly of themselves and despise others as of no use But of the two it s most strange to see the Presbyterian who the other day was opprest by the Bishop for his conscience in point of Sabbath c. who could not long since live without the favour of the Bishop should now thrust out those under whom he lived for not taking the Covenant which is contrary to their conscience and shew lesse favour to them then he received from them and doe that which he condemned in others and this upon weak and fleshly grounds admiring his own way which is to pray and preach longer and more then another to be strict in repetitions on Sabbath daies and some such poor formall things To set up this as the power of godlinesse and reformation to the ruine of another who it may be is a man of more justice ability and wisdome more sobriety more stability more patience and constancy in suffering The persecution of the Bishop was wicked and abominable but this being now acting and the other part and almost blotted out and forgotten by their sufferings is especially to be noted Did these men live in the largnesse of heavenly love that comprehends all these parties and in the light and wisdom of God who brings forth all these out of himself and for his own holy purpose manages all in order The Bishops and the Presbyters might agree as well as Christ and the Apostles and be so far from destroying as they would support each other did they know that heavenly order that is in divine things they might live in as sweet a fellowship as the one throne of Christ and twenty four Thrones of the Elders or Presbyters Rev. 4. All three might live in one Family as elder and yonger brethren as Fathers children and grand-children who while they live in Satan the accuser and in the darknesse of the World they oppose and destroy each other You are worldly live in the World and suffer the calamities of the World and are partners great sharers in the misery of the Nation being publick persons are of publick concernment these evils doe lie in a large and more generall way upon you in these desolations the Prophet that teaches lies he is the tayle The lower and baser kinde of judgements fall upon you the deep scorne of the People you are cast out by God from your honour and glory as an abominable branch as salt wanting savour to the Dunghill What 's become of the Episcopall glorious Church his lordly Palaces stately worship adorn'd Temples great Revenues Made desolate torne in peecs left to the Satire Schrich-owle to Zim Gim under what a hideous curse do they lie What 's become of the great Reformation of the other party that promised such glorious daies pure Ordinances power of godlines become a breach in a wall a rotten and putrifid sore abotch a filthy issue nothing appears in it but wretched disorder their eyes sinke in their heads while they look for salvation they inwardly cut themselves as Baals Priests crying to God to deliver them and finde no reliefe but scorne tormented with feares to be torne in peeces by the people Palenesse and blacknesse fills your faces and horrour and confusion you spirits on both sides To see your worldly glory burning in the fire of Divine jelousy your Idols broken to pouder cast into a Sea of confusion your fleshly beauty eaten up with worms of rottennesse and putrefaction To see your confidences in your Idols rejected your prophesying lyes of a glorious time by Gods hand confuted your fastings and multitude af solemne prayers cast as dung in your faces not regarded your zealous covenants wherby you thought to save your selves broken in peeces and trampled under foot your much admired worships of Directory and Service-booke Creeds Confessions Articles of no profit use-lesse and helplesse things laid by the wals scornd and despised your Churches and People taken from you scattered severall waies your gifts dying in you or dying in their use and ineffectuall The Church which is heaven shining in the light and presence of God in unity peace and order in holinesse majesty and righteousnesse through your dark and wicked government through your weaknes worldlines and want of Divine power and wisdome become a cursed field over-run with thistles briers and thornes a wildernes full of wild beasts a hel full of blasphemies malice revilings scornings derision railing errors mistakes herisies of all sorts the greatest pillars of truth Trinity Father Son and Spirit Christ his death c. defaced with foule errors so many so various so abundant as it is a confused heape of folly and madnes and coming in upon you in such a torrent that they drown you and are so high and prevalent that not a man of you dares or can appeare in any power or strength against them but are forced to lye-down and expose the truth your crown if ever you had any to be stamped in the dirt by them Chap. IX Shewing the iniquity of the Army and its judgement THE Army though but a branch of the Kingdome and a particular part yet in these civill warres the power of the sword hath been great and got the upper hand of the Civill The Army descended from the Parliament as its Childe but the Parliament growing old and weake and leand so long upon the tressels of the Army that its power at last sunk into the Army manifest in the Members flying to the Army in its approach to London The power or the King the head fell into the breast and shoulders the Parliament and thence descended into the legs the Army but there they make a swelling disease quickly and shew themselves to be in an un-naturall course The Army a company of honest and active men fitted excellently by a strong Angell for the work they were called to under whose conduct they dispatcsht their businesse speedily and honourably walking
insnared and caught in this net of trouble you are ingaged by honour self-preservation c. to go on in this hellish trade You are in darknesse and know not which way to goe having got a course of fighting you go on to fight for you know not who nor what Not for the Parliament you know if ever they have opportunity they will remember your war against them and make it Treason and if you had the same opportunity you would doe as much for them again as you have done master them So your cause is lost and you only fight because you are an Army because fighting is your businesse All that you did in your greatest undertaking against the Parliament and City is blasted and undone Members restored to the House the Tower in the same hands it was which writes vanity upon your proceedings and shewes what foolish builders you were that when you had power in your hand instead of doing good too and for all you minded nothing but your own and your friends advancement having indeed not the generall nature of the whole but the affection of a party and faction Your waies are not now paved with love and sweetnesse as heer to fore but full of briers and thornes your work hard and knotty meeting with a fierce bloody inraged Enemy sharpned and provoaked against you by a sense of their own and the Kingdomes ruine harsh and angry weather True you have subsistance still but not in honour peace greatnesse but in war in vexation and that increasing so fast upon you as threatens your overthrow or at least shew you so much worke to doe that you must go on butchering men as long as you live for as fast as one party is crusht another rises that tels you the spirit of the Nation is against you and that oppressing power upheld by you so that you must fall under their fury or the Nation be consumed by you either you must give way to their rage which you can't or continue to be the scourge of the Kingdome still a wretched life This Woolfe you have by the ears in this dark and black path you walk in If you think you are well because you live because you are not come to nothing you know not to be an Army or to be in the cnodition of private persons would be your mercy but you are ingaged to bee in dishonour in warre shame tormentors and being tormented Chap. X. Shewing the state of the Levellers THe Levellers are men that are justly sensible of the miscariage of all that are gon before them see c their corruption how they have swarved and declined c that 's not heard but in applying a remedy they are as much mistaken as any His excellencies is not great assisted he is by a discerning Angell that discovers the falshood injustice and wicked waies of others and opens this truth more then any how all power and authority ascends out of the People or descends from the People making in a kinde them the chiefe But alas this Angell is low and weak that speakes and writes in a corner but come forth into action he cannot but sinkes under the fall of the Kingdome and his own mistake Thy errors are these Thou canst not bear the Kingdomes suffering under the hand of God nor thy owne but in a carnall love of this worldly state seekest to uphold it against the justice of God and so fallest into the same evil of thy Fathers self-love and preservation in enmity to the LORD To save thy self that the over-flowing scourge may not come nigh thee thou makest a Covenant with hell and an Agreement with death the Agreement of the People who are turned by the Divine justice into a hel and death Thou art ignorant of that wisdome of God that only can save the Nation and having gathered some scraps of earthly knowledge from others thy proud heart is lifted up and thou conceivest highly of thy self as if thou art able to save the Kingdome and so presumest upon that which thou art not called unto T is true The King is by the People and the People are the originall of power but this is an imperfect peece and take it alone it is very destructive The King is of the People so is Man by the Woman yet the Woman must not shake off her yoke of subjection For as the Man is by the Woman so the Woman is of the Man and for the Man so the People are taken out of the King and are for the King as well as the KING by the People KING and Parliament are in relation to the people as Christ to David He is the root and of-spring of David Davids Son yet Davids Root and David in spirit calls him Lord. So is power in King or Parliament the root and ofspring of the People The King is Son to the People and Father too and so in spirit is called Lord. While you take one part in darknesse and leave the other you confound and disorder the whole In your actings to set up a worldly power now you are of the earth earthly The Nation ground to powder or dust dust thou art and to dust c. the Serpents meat You confess no Father acknowledge none above you and therefore art Terroe-filius or filius populi Son of the Earth or Son of the People The base Son of the Parliament begotten in her Adultery growing out of her principles The people must not be left without a remedy to save themselves c. Self-saviours your cry is the People all power is disolved and the people must judge T is according to your wish the people in divers parts do take the power and above all would mine you their greatest indignation is against you so you runne from God to hell for help T is your portion to suffer in the common calamity and to be as mad men striving with your fetters as a Bull in a net toyling your selves or agitators not resting quietly in the grave of publicke misery waiting for a resurrection but disturbed agitated dust in a whirlewinde of divine wrath Chap. XI Shewing the Judgement of the City of London LONDON the chief and Mother City of this Nation hath been the place of residence of the great glory of England the house that gives entertainment to the head the King and body the Parliament and these florishing together in peace and righteousnesse The Heaven wherein these dwell and chiefly shine forth themselves The habitation of these Majesties in which they are comprehended That is inriched by them with honour state greatnesse and doth again supply and inrich them with plenty of cloaths food c. And thou hast held up thy head high in these times and been mightily preserved by a great Angell in thy many dangers Thy evils of sinne and punishment are besides the common guilt and plagues of the Nation Thou art wholly ignorant of thy heavenly originall thy true foundation upon which thou
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
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
the Peace of God The union and agreement of Father Son and Spirit in one this is our peace and a well grounded peace settled and sure that is lasting and durable a threefold cord that cannot be broken We are one with God reconcil'd to God we dwell together in the same house he hath married us one in God one as God one amongst our selves as he is one All in the Father the Head the KING all in the Son the Body the Parliament All in Spirit in combination acting and living together in their just and lafull rights and in perfect fruit of righteousnes love and peace Secondly The Nation desires SETTLEMENT after her shakings here 's everlasting Settlement upon sure foundations The sure mercies of David upon the rock of ages he who was is and ever will be those pillars upon which England stood made cleare and bright and the Kingdome settled upon them Now the world is establisht in eternity so that it cannot be moved Thirdly The HONOVR OF THE NATION honoured indeed For glory doth dwell in our Land our Nation now is the very throne and seat of Divine glory a Royall Nation filled with Princely spirits the Kingdome it self raisd from the grave of lusts luxury coveteousnesse oppression basenesse and beastlinesse into the noblenesse and wisdome of the Spirit of God England first brought forth into that excellent and perfect righteousnesse liberty and justice that shall bee a copy to other Nations a Mother that shall bring forth salvation to all the earth Fourthly The SETLING OF RELIGION of the true Orthodox ancient Protestant Religion and the rooting out sects herisies popery This doth it compleatly and fully We now shall have sound doctrin measured by the scriptures of truth the golden line of truth it self truth derived from the bowels of eternity and constantly preserved and kept in the worst ages free from defilement giving testimony of it self successively in the darkest times and now breaking forth in undeniable and indisputable authority and evidence Not peeces but a whole body of Divinity divinity it selfe not in shadow but the body of it not maim'd but intire and whole from the highest head and glory of God to the lowest part of hell and all the variety of estates in Christ in Angels in men with their fallings and risings descendings and ascendings fully and plainly brought forth The Sun shall shine so clearly as shall discipate these mists of error that are amongst us with such power as shall compose the madnesse and disorder of peoples judgements into a beautifull Uniformity by power of the Spirit of God and in satisfaction to every minde Fiftly Another Publick interest is LIBERTY from all oppressing powers this we have here restored a glorious liberty in which all English men shall live under Authority as children not servants nor slaves some shall rule as Fathers others shall obey as Sons Nothing but love goodnesse and gentlenesse in both both to command and obey shall be sweet and delightfull no Laws but the perfect Law of liberty which the subject shal choose and desire A KING free and enlarged into the hearts and estates of his people living in all they are and have they pleased to have it all the Kings every one hating that which will not be the KINGS and Common wealths counting that base and unworthy that is not every one 's as well as his own and that only to be rich which is free for all and so men free to part with as well as to injoy estates free as well as persons and men not slaves to men nor to their wealth no not to propriety which is the greatest bondage to serve them selves and their own wealth That 's true wealth Common wealth And the People free living in the bosome of the KING in his authority and greatnesse they have a true right to it as they have anything Tbe Court is their Fathers house the Throne their own home where every subject dwels and lives in the Kings honour and presence Sixtly In this we have A RIGHT VNDERSTANDING between King and Parliament The wisdome of God to shew us a way of peace the true light shining from heaven upon us the night of our mistakes is past The prince of darknesse is thrown down we are translated out of a kingdome of darknesse into the Kingdome of God in which we shal alwaies have the true wisdome to guide us Seventhly Here likewise have we AN ACT OF OBLIVION whereby all transgressions are blotted out all carried in to the depth of the Sea where sin if it be sought for it shall not be found such a fullnesse of pleasure and satisfaction as will not admits a thought of revenge if we shall remember past things it will bee with joy and thanks to each other for in â—â—rting we have saved one another wherein we have done evill to any it is turned to their good The KING will thank the Parliament for rising against him and the Parliament thank the KING for leaving of them There is GOD and perfect good in all that every party hath suffered HAPPINES it selfe England now hath a confluence of the riches of Heaven and Earth in one blessednesse England a glorious Land the Land of God abounding in store trade justice peace amity We are fallen but as hath been expected We RISE AS ONE MAN England acted by one head one spirit is become one man every one loving another as himself rising against the COMMON ENEMY the Devil the destroyer who is and hath been our only enemy wee hate none but him and by this RISING wee free our selves from him As this satisfies the publick so every particular interest or all interests are here satisfied and brought into one interest which is the true nature of an interest to be in others a joynt or common subsistence every part made cleane and right and so inter-weaved into one intire garment which is the excellency of Divine works they are large save all that 's a humane and devilish designe that saves one by the ruin of another but that is Gods way to save all so as the salvation of one is the salvation of another Now here you see all contented The KING as all have sworne and prayed advanced into honour and greatnesse freed from prison from chains of darknesse wherein he hath been held brought out of a low dungeon of wrath and heavy affliction to the highest Throne of Majesty Person and Office restored from blacknesse and foulnesse to splendor and brightnesse into the Majesty of God and that performed which the Parliament often promised A GLORIOUS KING a KING in the glory of God or the glorious God the Immortall KING Reigning in man and over men Sir this is your true interest t is your life and soul I know t is your heart though yet lying hid T is the Key will unlock your spirit and bring it out into the light and liberty of God unlock your understanding after
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 GOD shining upon WILLIAM SEDGWICK Doe you not know that the Saints shall Judge the World LONDON Printed by H. for Giles Calvert at the black spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1648. THE PREFACE TO THE WHOLE KINGDOME REad and wonder I know thou wilt to see the Lord so soon upon English ground you are surprized taken fast asleep Awake stand up T is the Lord he is come to save us he was with us upholding our former prosperity and we knew it not he is now with us fighting against our worldly state in such a dark cloud as we are more ignorant of him he will now unvail himself and you shall see him in open face of love and Salvation and say This is the Lord. While you are under him in the World you will finde his feet as fine brasse burning in a furnance His steps will be hard to break you in peeces fiery to consume you yet fine holy and just suffer that and he will take you up into his armes and binde you to himselfe with a golden girdle of love and shew you a face as bright as the Sun shinning in his strength giving you rich love life and light he is severe that will astonish but mercifull that will comfort he is very low in the bottome of your sinnes and miseries there the flesh will despise him but your wants will rejoyce in him and say such a high Priest we need but exalted very high in the largnesse of lovingkindnesse sure that will please you and the evil one only can be troubled at it England it is thy Shepherd the Porter will and must open to him and the Sheep will hear his voice while he calleth them by their names they will follow him and he will lead them out of their misery and he goeth before them In every way of suffering and deliverance he is first sure you will not follow a stranger but flee from him he saith All that went before me are theeves and robbers they are hirelings and come for wages they come not but to steal to kill and to destroy so have all done yet They are hirelings and the sheep are not theirs But I am the good Shepherd I lay down my life for the Sheep I am come that they might have life after their death and that they might have it more abundantly then ever they had it J will seek that which is lost and bring again that which was driven away and will binde up that which was broken and will strengthen that which was sick and J will feed them in a good pasture upon the high mountains shall their fold be c. I know the narrownes of mans heart will say who hath heard such a thing Who hath seen such things Shall the earth bring forth in one day shall a Nation be born at once Will Christ appear in the earth or if in the earth in a whole Nation what Christ under the sinnes of the Kingdome his blood shed in a Nation a Saviour of the Earth and this in so short a season all at once To this I only answer My thoughts are not as your thoughts nor my waies as your waies but as far as heaven is above earth so far are my waies above your waies saith the Lord This I doe rejoyce in and so wilt thou that heer is light to be seen and eyes to see with that he can open and enlarge the mindes of men and bring them out of prison and make them able to receive the truth This is truth light to shew this truth in eyes to receve it and love to rejoyce in it Wee have no enemy but the devil and he will make all the resistance he can poor weak man may doubt fear c. but Satan will blaspheme rage and say t is impossible t is blasphemy t is against God against man But thou enemy thy discovery is thy ruine thou shalt not speake a word against this Lord but it shall be manifest t is thou a murderer a lyer a destroyer that hath no portion in this thing and therefore wouldest destroy that that will destroy thee and deliver the Kingdome out of thy destroying hands thou art cast down thy Kingdom of darknes is broken by the light of the day of God thou shalt prevail no longer in this Kingdome O Leviathan we now can draw thee out with a hook and thy tongue with a cord thou shalt now make supplications to us and speak soft words to us we now take thee for a servant play with thee as with a bird and our companions shall make a banquet of thee c. Therefore depart thou as smoak before the presence of the Lord. Heer is one that hath the Keys of David that can enter into the Kingdome bring forth the prisoners judge them and save them from Satans cruelty and wrath These are the Leaves not the fruit of the Tree of life the cure is upon the Nation in general that is the subject in hand not men in their particular and personal estate that is yet to come This is Elijah who comes before the great and dreadfull day of the Lord to turne the heart of the Fathers to the Children and the heart of the Children to their Fathers lest J come and smite the earth with a curse The Lord in the spirit of Elijah the dawning of the day upon the top of the mountain washing and cleansing the outward skin of the Nation to prepare for further and greater glory and to remove the present curse of hell and wrath that is devouring of you I have no more to say to you but stand still and patiently hear your doom from the Throne of God advancing it self in WILLIAM SEDGWICK THE LEAVES OF THE TREE of LIFE For the healing of the NATION Chap. I. Shewing the happy and flourishing condition in which the Kingdome of England once stood and the ground of it THE Earth is the Lords and the fulnesse thereof the world and all that dwelss therein For he hath founded it upon the Seas c. The divine goodnes delights to bring forth it selfe in the whole creation and upon all things stamps his own likenes Especially the heavenly man takes pleasure to bring forth a brief Epitome of himself in his image man The families of Heaven have ingraven their likenes upon the Families of the Earth The new Jerusalem the City of God bestowes her shape and beauty upon these Cities But the highest glory of God in his Kingdome is drawn forth in the Kingdomes of this world and therefore they are above all The Kingdomes of our Lord and
Parliament appeares at first assisted by a lovely and sweet Angell as the tender Mother of all our liberties as the womb in whom our Civil rights lay as Jerusalem that is from above the Mother of us all having the face of Jesus a saviour from all our troubles speaking nothing but a generall and universall love and a care of all as a rich treasury full of all blessings that might make us happy But that Angell leaving her she quickly discovers her weaknesse and inability and sinks into confusion under her sins and Divine displeasure Your evils are against Christ against the King and against the People Chiefly against your Fundamentall Law Christ the Sonne of God who is in you and with you and you know him not yea deny him and in expresse words scorne his Spirit You some times profess for the Kingdome of Christ but do indeed put him to open shame burying the Wisdome Beauty Righteousnesse of Christ and holding forth visibly nothing but an abominable heap of folly disorder and unrighteousnesse you are indeed the seat of all the fullnesse of Christ the house of God where God would dwell and so a body of Heavenly wisdome religion justice goodnesse and everything that is Excellent But you have departed from this principle yea wholly kild it and walk after the imaginations of your owne hearts after the customes of men yea worse after the will and minde of others not following the stable rule The Lord you are become subject to People City Scots Army any And having lost the true life and spirit of a Parliament the presence and Majesty of God you are become a dead Idol standing in the power of darknesse in direct opposition to God This poor empty name this vanity do you with all your might maintain zealous for your Priviledges as if all happinesse lay in them and while you labour to uphold them you doe most destroy them selling your selves for relief in any danger to any that can but seeme to help you making your selves cheap and common mercenary and so the great betrayers of your own rights In your rebellions against the holy God you have trodden in the steps of your Father the King and in his may see your own iniquities But particularly You are guilty of hipocrisy and deceit in that great pretence of Reformation seeing such a spirit acting in the People to keep them sure to you and by that to gaine advantage against your adversaries you assume this title The Cause of God and Reformation without either love to it or judgement to know how to go about it T is known you are men your selves unreformed men of corupt and loose lives and that whereupon yon insist most you are most guilty of Arbitrary power every one being in dispose of his estate a Tirant and wracking Tennants according to his own will which is the generall sin of the Nation every one labouring to oppresse others to advance himselfe And since you came together walking in a continuall course of illegall and arbitrary power You are grosly ignorant of the Heavenly Kingdome The true Patterne out of which the Kingdome was taken and form'd and into which it must bee Reformd As you want judgement so want you power having trampled under your feet the power and Spirit of Christ your Ordinances are all spiritlesse weake and despicable But having layd this Egge of Reformation you make this use of it When you want an Army to help you you carry it to Scotland to bee hatched there and thence it brings forth an imperfect earthy crawling Cockatrice Presbytery which never yet did any good but vex the Nation and help your friends to get into fat livings And because you want the help of active men heer of different judgements they sit upon the Egge and bring forth liberty of conscience and with it a monstrous heap of mis-shapen errors and opinions which you cannot suppresse by conviction nor dare restrain by power The Church t is true was extreamly corrupted full of tyranny darknesse worldly pride and great disorder But you have brought nothing to it but utter ruine and defacement Not having that Spirit of judgement and burning to seperate twixt the precious and the vile in Episcopacy c. you have in a blinde conformity with Scotland and to supply your own needs of their lands untterly demolisht all Your errors against the King are not following your foundamentall constitution He a Husband you his body he a Father you a Son Hee being plunged in his government and in necessity he cals you together and seeks your help which was a fair opportunity for you by fair carriage and dutifulnesse to regain his restranged heart but you grow upon his necessities and in stead of insinuating into him by love you at first rigidly and harshly capitulate for priority and priviledge and fell into a violent and illegall forcing the sword the Militia out of his hands a strange and un-naturall contest having no other bottom but jealousy and feare of suffering for the Wife or Sonne to disarme the Husband or Father You have unkindly unjustly requited his error who would have Reigned without you made you ciphers and kept the substance of Government from you You deal so with him would take all power from him and leave him to be a state ceremony a great nothing a gaudy thing set out with Titles for pomp and fashion sake to be looked upon a servant having power to doe neither good nor hurt And that which every man as a man contends for to be Arbitrary or to have the exercise of his will without which we are the greatest slaves in the World that is wholly denied him in Government Your endeavours is to imprison the Throne to infeeble your Lord and disable him from doing the Kingdome any good such an empty weak thing would be a heavy curse to the Nation a dishonour and shame to you and that which you would quickly be weary of T is most true you have Royalty in you in the second place being bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh the expresse image of his person but to set up this above the head or by this to thrust out the other is falshood and disloyalty to your head That any thing in you should live in distinction from or opposition to your head and Father t is to commit Adultry with your selves or shadow of your Lord to fashion up a notionall King amongst your selves When he was departed from you you should even to death have followed him and not rejoyced in his absence and shut the door upon him all jollity mirth and confidence in his going was un-naturall Then your civill life and glory went and it had been your way to have lost your selves with him or to have sat as widow till you had recovered him When there was in him a minde of returning as at Notingham you should then have opened your hosomes to him but having possession of all in
standest The new Jerusalem that is from above Neither hast thou shined with that blessednesse and holinesse but upheld a worldly and divelish darknesse and so art become a filthy Sodome a vile and poluted thing living not as the Lambs wife but in filthiness of adultery with the pomp and greatnesse of the World glorying in thy own Riches Power Multitude and not in the Lord. Thou hast been proud and lifted up and every way hast vaunted and boasted of thy government Militia wisdome c. and hast boldly pressed into the Throne of the Government of the Kingdome and at pleasure hast interposed authoritatively beyond thy place Common Citizens in great confidence of their ability to rule the state busily intermedling in things much above their understandings and quite out of the sphere of their callings You have often given check both to King and Parliament and lifted up your head above the power of the Kingdome and that rashly effeminately and without judgement in rude bold violent and tumltuous waies You have not in a Mother wisdome and moderation endeavoured the composing these differences it was thy place to spread thy Armes of love to imbrace both King and Parliament to have inclosed and begirt them both in unity But thou hast headily passionately according to thysex engaged with the Parliament and wert far too eagar and inconsiderate in promoting war and partiall in thy affection and laying out thy strength T is thy property to be rich and wanting it in a naturall and just way of trade you are many of you turned Officers publicans Excise men others buying Bishops and Irish Lands an unnaturall way of Merchant adventurers to strive to catch the ruines of the Kingdome as they fall or to grow rich upon publick miseries this is un-blest wealth there is a curse followes it Thou sufferest deeply in the common calamity and the spoyling and plundering in the Nation must be put upon thy accompt thou art pillaged in most parts of the Nation The great and intolerable losse of King Court to shine in thee in peace righteousnes proena damni the pesence of the King in thee living in agreement with his People is thy true life and glory and makes thee a heaven and the want of it is to thee intolerable and makes thee a Hell After the recovery of this happinesse doest thou insatiably thirst and canst not live without re-enjoyment of it Thy glory and reward hath been stained thy greatnesse brought down by the Army Thy trade is lost and broken thy wealth wasting and consuming there is stretched out upon thee The line of confusion and the stones of emptinesse Thou art continually shaken with fears and indignations tossed about as a Ball unstable and uncertain Fires of divisions kindled and burning fiercely in thee in all thy meetings common Councel common Hall Nothing but fire and brimstone bitter and sharp contests horrible rage one against another spitting fire in the face of each other preparing for the destruction of one another The wants of the poor threatning to tear out thy bowels a heap of disorder and confusion acting in all things in darknesse and wrath and so art of the nature of the Kingdome in the destroyer and a particular hell of thy self and to thy self mighty in malice rich in madnesse t is thy trade and busines having little else to doe but to design mischiefe to torment thy self Chap. XII Shewing the irrecoverablenesse of Englands ruine by humane waies ENgland thou art lost for ever lost Thou hast departed from God who is thy life and now thou art dead Rejected into destruction The Peace Wisdome Justice and Goodnesse of God hath left thee and the madnesse wrath injustice and malice of Satan fils thee Thou art broken like a Potters vessell into shivers into many peeces Thou art nothing but division head from body limb from limb and each party hath a peece of thee thou art by divine justice distributed and given forth into severall interests The King hath his part The Parliament their part The Army another c. and each an essentiall or integrall part without which the whole cannot subsist These severall principles or spirits of the Nation are by the breath of God blown into the severall parts of the earth scattered into the four winds as much divided as East and West North and South And all parts have distinct natures given to them severall principles of self-subsistence which sets them a contending for their own being yea such beings as can never be nulled standing upon the unmovable pillars of the decree of God and of the constitution of the Kingdome especially in the great division of King and Parliament both must subsist T is as impossible to destroy Kinglinesse wholly or to settle England without a King as t is to overthrow the first person God the Father if Heaven would dispence yet the earth would not King being as naturall unto us as a head to the body King is engraven in the spirit of the Nation If it were consumed to ten men they would have a King if the Nation were shrunk into one Family they would he governed by a King Upon the same ground stands the Parliament you may pull Christ out of Heaven as well as overthrow the interest of Parliament it may be suspended a while but quite suppressed it cannot Christ will eternally uphold it so the Nation will perpetually and restlesly require it it being the heart and life of the Nation The distinct natures or principles are strongly confirmed by Covenant Oath conscience honour on all parts whereby the Persons in whose hands these interests are are engaged to maintain and uphold their particulars to death And so bound to maintain their own both at a distance from God and from each other as while they save it they lose it being in the dark seperated from God to continue it is its certain death so that it must be and they will have it and in the way it is it cannot but be miserable But these parties are not only thus divided one from another but inplacably set to destroy one another in deadly opposition one to another and so instead of being each others life as they should they are each others death standing directly in the way to each others happines each perswaded that they might be well if their adversaries were gon There is a good and an evill in both the good of each is hid from the other and turned away the bright side the face and the back-parts the weaknesse the foule part in view and sight of each other The Kings party say if it were not for this Parliament and Army the Kingdome would be happy the Parliament and Army say if it were not for King and Cavaliers the Kingdome would be happy Being desperatly with mortall hatred enraged one against another they heartily seeke the destruction of each other and in destroying each other they do destroy them selves for indeed they are
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
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
of each ether and passing from one to the other by and in the Spirit Ministers and People Townes Corporations Manufactures Markets Grasing Feeding all but the abundant flowings forth of the fulnesse of Christ pleased to expresse it self in such formes You are all one Common-wealth of God and Christ and in you all doth Christ suffer in that deadnes disorder spoil confusion that is amongst you doth the body of Christ suffer T is the blood of Christ that gives life to all these things and in the spilling of them his blood is spilt With him you suffer as he with you The glory riches peace and comfort of England is become a troubled Sea yea mare mortuum a dead Sea There is no life in any thing you doe no joy in your labours no comfort in your lives no hope of enjoying what you have a Chaos a great grave is England become wherein is cast all her riches But by this death is Satan the Prince of death overcome the author of your miseries the destroyer of the earth that fils you with wanes suits quarrels that sowed the tears of strife amongst Gods husbandry that hot fiery Serpent that provoaked thirst to drunkennesse that empty hungry fiend that led you to gluttony that filthy one that wrought breaches in your families discontents in your relations wasting in your estates that cursed all your blessings denies you joy mirth sports recreations Thou enemy of man art slain and with thee darknesse blindnesse mistakes accusations treacheries lies falshoods that vexed English men These hatefull quarrels between Round-head and Cavalier are dead and buried with all your transgressions one against another and all will and power to mischief one another That partition wall is broken down that kept you at distance from God and from each other that made you dark ignorant and sinfull in your way And you are now raisd in a new life The old heaven and earth is fled away because it was corrupt and we have a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwels righteousnesse In all your waies businesse trade sports neighbourhood dwels the God of righteousnesse they are all in God and God in them the goodnesse of God flows forth in them and all of them shall bee filled with the peace joy and life of God Truth stall spring out of the earth and Righteousnesse look downe from heaven The Lord shall give that which is good and our Land shall yeild her increase You are sow'd in sin in darknes and shall rise now light and holynesse and with you truth it self The true and living God shall spring up in every thing The truth of God filling all your fields with corne pastures with grasse that which is good God Himselfe your corne shall be better then Manna Angels food you shall feed continually upon the bread of life you shall lye down quietly in the armes of God and none shall make you afraid God Reigns let the earth rejoyce let all that is in it be glad you shall have mirth plenty wealth food rayment and GOD all in all You shall be Govern'd by God in peace and righteousnesse the wicked one shall be destroyed for ever Our Sonnes shall be as plants grown up in their youth our Daughters as corner stones pollished after the manner of a Palace our Garners full of all manner of store our Sheep shal bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets our Oxen strong to labour there shal be no breaking in of trouble nor going out of comfort no complaining in our streets Happy are the People that is in such a case yea happy is the People whose God is the Lord. This is the Great happinesse God is our God and we his People Now ye may sit under your own Vine and under your own Figge-tree which is the love of God shadowing you and feeding of you Let the earth be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the Sea there shall be none barren of the grace of God amongst you not a dark corner of the Earth for cruelty to dwell in but all shall bee enlightened with the joy and peace of God such a power of light and heat shal shine from the Sun of righteousnesse as shall melt the churles heart into liberality the Land-lord shall not rack you nor the Vsurer grinde you Taxes and Excise shal not oppresse you The rich shall not be a prisoner to his wealth nor the poor for want he that hoorded corne shall bring it forth the buried mony shal rise trade shall revive the hungry shall be fed the naked cloathed all happy but he that refuses and resists this grace the Devill You shall all praise the Lord from the rising of the Sun to the going down of it rejoyce in the King in the Parliament all their honour greatnesse and dominion is yours you shall have the comfort and benifit of it and from them shall you receive flouds and streames of righteousnesse that none shall want the rich shall be freed from the curse in his wealth and desire no more the poor shall be satisfied and have enough every one and every thing shall be filled And your railings shall be turned into songs your fightings into daunces your feares into rejoyceings live in love in the face of God as brethren as owe family lying in the wombe of one happy Mother England a Paradice the Land of Emanuel rejoycing in the prosperity of each other and the heavens shall blesse you the God of heaven shal shine on you Christ The true Heaven is open to you Princes Magistrats look gently upon you in love smile on you and these lowring frowning clouds that have vexed you with excesse of raine shall be scattered and these heavens shall favour you with seasonable weather you shall have all blessings of heaven and earth Thus the People are recovered from slavery under Satan and wicked men into a freedome to live in the face of God into freedome with and union to their King their Parliament and amongst themselves and so are free-borne a Nation borne in one day a Royall and Princly race a blessed and happy generation Borne of GOD and of their KING Chap. XIX The restoration of the Ministry by Christs bearing their sin and by his death and resurrection THE Ministry hath been deeply defiled and wofully accursed they lye under great sinnes and heavy judgements But here is balme for them a Physitian will cure them a fire will purify the Sonnes of Levi you are the LORDS portion GOD who said you were not my People will say you are the People of the living God Idol Shepherds are you but the GREAT Shepherd is seeking after you and will restore you The Lord is under your sinnes bears your iniquities under the Luciferian pride of Episcopacy seeking to advance themselves into worldly greatnes into Princes favour into Lordlinesse it being broken in peeces we see under it the Kingly and Priestly Office of Christ in