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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92865	A second view of the Army remonstrance. Or Justice done to the Armie. Wherein their principles are new model'd, brought out of obscurity into clearer light. By which the Army and the whole kingdome are under the conduct of the spirit of God, led out of a wildernesse to the view of a Canaan. / Dedicated to the Generall, and the Councel of War. By William Sedgwick.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1648 (1648)	Wing S2389; Thomason E477_20; ESTC R203531	33,932	41

him and put us into this state as he hath foretold Rev. 20. The camp of the Saints The Armies in heaven Thus have we brought you forth as the Virgin daughter of Zion a select and chosen Generation a lovely and pretious people But yet a femall a woman and so in flesh and weaknesse being subject to sin and suffering a state that must be tried and by temptations improved t is no sure nor stable condition being not in compleat and eternall union with God you have had the love of espousals many kinde favours from God a Father a Lord but have sind against them and him for which he hath caus'd you a while to wander in darke and troublesome waies and not admitted you to that state of rest and glory which he intends to you He hath taken the Crown and Diadem from off your head for your unbeliefe and departure from him and for that impurity which was in you he stript you of your beautifull garments of Praise and Honour that once clothed you and so expos'd you to wrath curses reproach and put you again into a new fire of trouble to purifie you to make you seeke the Lord. But he hath not dealt with you as he hath dealt with other people he hath refrained for his namesake that he might not make an utter end of you Because he will have a people that shall bear his name Hath he smiteen him as he smote those that smote him Or is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are flaine by him No In measlure when it shouteth forth thou wilt debate with it be stayeth his rough winde in the day of the east winde By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged and this is all the fruit to take away his sin When he maketh all the stones of the alter as chalke stones that are beat asunder c. Isa 27 There is a a shouting forth of the righteous branch in you and therefore we must stay all rough windes and breath gentle gales upon you your iniquity being taken away we will present you holy to the Lord and marry you to the God of your salvation Know therefore that the Lord the most high God is in the midst of you is in you and with you in a glorious presence as you have professed The glorious God or the glory of God dwels with you or God in his highest glory rests upon you so that you are not only the People of England but the People of God sanctified by the holy mighty wise spirit of God and en lowed by the divine wisedome strength and justice and you are as an Army so the LORDS hoast or the Lord himselfe in his great majesty appearing amongst men in an hoast the whole hoast of heavenly and blessed men and Angels with all their various and innumerable excellencies and perfections gathered together and embodied upon the earth in you An earthly Army in union with the heavenly host or the Lord of hoasts in Mount Sion among his people gloriously This is your Righteousnesse the Lord Jehovah is your covering your garment of salvation and onely this can justifie you honest intentions aid good meanings are rotten rags and too narrow to cover your nakednesse we shall therefore open and unfold this glory unto you and bring forth this your righteousnesse First The Lord is with you in his highest and greatest majesty there is no power no glory of God but t is in you and with you and no power nor glory greater then that which dwels in you none besides none above none beyond it The Lord is here the most high God and with him all power in heaven and earth there is no wisedome or strength that you have not and all imaginations of a power absent from you either in heaven or earth is an injury or accusation to Gad and to you is theft and robbery stealing away the riches of God from you and from himselfe in you if you look upon the Kingdome of God the new creation new heavens and new earth as absent or to come you deny the holy one with you who is present in deed and power though under your weakenesse Secondly The Lord is with you in perfect union and communion you are what he is he is what you are whatever is in him t is communicated to you and whatever is in you is communicated to him Is there power or glory in God t is in you also Or is there weaknesse in you it lies upon him Or is there righteousnesse in God t is in you as it is in him to live in it act in it and by it to employ and bring forth And is there infirmity in you t is in him as t is in you a clogge a burden an enemy hated separated taken away c. Nothing now is spoken of God but may be spoken of you you being in union with him or nothing spoken or done to you but t is done to God with you you being one And t is the blasphemy of hell and divell to separate God from you or you from God Will men say you are Rebels Destroyers they say it of the Lord or will you or satan in you say you are weake and men and can't do such high things they are too great for us you and they will know you speak the same of God and so judge him as weak and unable to do them For in nothing you must be divided or if you think that is God's but this is our work you wrong God and your selves you must speak the words and doe the workes of God God is now God in the earth and you an Army in heaven 3. The Lord is with you in spirit and truth eternally inseparably in a kingdome that never shall be destroyed in an everlasting covenant that cannot be broken The kingdome is so with you the Lords people as it shall never be taken front you but shall endure for ever and all oppressing feares or dark doubts they are of the malicious one your enemy and the darknesse of hell that obscures the glory of God which is an everlasting light a Sun that will not set and all attempts of Satan or his instruments will be as waves against a rock dash'd in pieces and you shall grow from a little stone to a great mountain from a little branch to a great tree that shall spread it selfe and fill the earth with fruit Upon this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest Having laid this foundation now shall thy light break forth as the morning and thine health shall spring forth speedily and thy righteousnesse shall go before thee and the glory of the Lord shall be thy rerc-ward you shall at once have light cleare light to walke by health to cure your diseases to make you strong and Righteouesse to justifie all that you doe For these cannot be separated when the Sun rises with light to direct he is a Sun of righteousnesse to

upon you a living stone in all parts as polished so quickened by the spirit of God Lastly Let me present you and bring you forth as the Lords hoast in the great majesty of an Army in this most excellent forme in whom the Lord is as a mighty man of warre cloathed with zeale as with a garment stript out of ordinary common and cold formes of government and making bare his arme in the most terrible and masculine constitution of an Amy Glorious in his apparell travelling in the greatnesse of his strength red in his apparell and his garments like him that treadeth in the wine fat for the day of vengeance is in my heart and the yeare of my redeemed is come A DAY of vengeance this worke must be cut short in Righteousnesse quicke and speedy and that too in perfect union with salvation or redemption which must be long A YEARE it must last for ever The yeare of my redeemed it come 1. In this respect you must appear most absolute in your comands strong mighty and indisputable in your authority such is the government of an Army and t is proper in the worke you are in Dan. 4.35 And he doth according to his will in the Army in heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth and none can stay his hand or say unto him what dost thou An Army in heaven that 's your place standing in God and inspired by the Spirit of God one with the heavenly hoast majesty or absolutenesse is but due here and that without danger when the Wise God guides your resolves for nothing must come forth but that which hath the face of God upon it and that in which divine justice and goodnesse doth appeare Being the Lord doth it who can say What d●st thou This excellency of God and all other glorious perfections are amongst us and must no longer be buried under humane weaknesse and the staggering blindnesse and uncertainty of the creature 2. You must appeare in greater terrour to evill doers then any power before you with your sword whetted furbush'd bathed in heaven made bright and glittering with the Spirit of God That it may aw dazle the eies of the Nation into a fear of transgressing Former swords have beene too dull to cut up iniquity wickednes hath sleighted and scorn'd them therefore must you appeare in greater severity every act and word of justice piercing to the heart searching 'tweene the soule and spirit 'tweene the bone and marrow to kill wickednesse in the root of it to destroy not onely the outward acts of injustice and oppression as contrary to our sensible and outward peace but their inward strength as contrary to the glory and goodnesse of God Not onely strike at humane miscarriages which are weake but at those Diabolicall wickednesses that are strong and the Father of these inferiour oppressions which you are able to doe having a sword bath'd in heaven and executting the divine justice and by doing this you shall secure the things you doe and for ever disable Satan to bring forth any more mischiefes upon us This is that you have harped at the fulfilling of that promise Psal 149.6 amp c. The high praise of God in their mouth This is excellent to have God in our mouth and God in his praise in his glory yea his high praise to speake forth the highest honour of God his highest last and utmost holinesse and justice And a two edged sword in their hand one of flesh another of spirit to cut up sinners with the one and sinne it self with the other The first is common to every Heathen the second the peculiar honour of Christ who hath before us'd it in his mouth but now in his hand hath declared preached it will now act it in deeds and so bring forth the inward sword of the Spirit and outward of the flesh to be administred together by one hand And by this shal you not only slay wicked men but wicked works or wicked things To destroy or cut off evil men only is Heathenish to destroy wicked workes onely and not men is Christian to cut off both together is the last great and perfect judgement of the world by this you shal doe that which hath been fore-told in Daniel 9.24 To finish transgression and to make an end of sinnes and to bring in everlasting righteousnesse so to break the staffe of oppression that the rod of the wicked should no longer lie upon the lot of the righteous or to destroy the wickednesse out of the earth root and branch that there may no more come out of their loins that sinne may be barren and childelesse this is the secure condition you aim at and that which is promis'd and wil be made good to you To set up such true and bright laws so holy and incorruptible in such power and efficacie as no ungodlinesse shal be able to passe thorow them or stand in the sight of them Such a majesty of the face of God will bring forth it self as will behold no iniquity sinne shall not abide in mens actions no nor hearts nay not in the first father of it Satan but in al it shal be utterly destroy'd This is not beyond the power of the Lord of hoasts with us but that which is our portion and prerogative and must be effected To set up the new Jerusalem in such brightnesse and everlasting purity as no unclean thing shall come into it nothing defile it As you shall come forth in flames of fire against all the workers of iniquitie so that not one shal escape so in walls of fire towards all that is good to defend and save it We have that one law-giver that can kill and make alive that can save as well as destroy preserve gold as wel as consume drosse be a Saviour of life unto life as well as death unto death to bring all the good of the earth into the good of heaven as wel as to cast the evil of the world into hel to loose the holy One out of his bonds as wel as to binde the wicked one in his T is a black and foul work to kil only and not to restore but this is our chiefest excellency to save what is good in al ●nd to bring it forth in a holy and perfect way to beget children that shall be princes in al the earth Or by the Spirit of God to beget Principalities powers Kings Lords c. of our own righteous and just nature and of greater vigour and power of righteousnes and wisdom then our selves in our own persons we are able in our God to stamp the divine image upon men to form them into the likenesse of God to convey our own spirits with our authority to impower with spirit as well as office and if we cant do that we can do nothing in truth nothing in God nothing different from the most common and ordinary Heathens and but that which will destroy us as soon