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A92862	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 of God shining upon William Sedgwick.	Sedgwick, William, 1609 or 10-1669?	1648 (1648)	Wing S2386; Thomason E460_40; ESTC R204719	74,614	130

contempt cast upon KING or Parliament upon one side or other is flung at Christ and he that opprosseth poor England in her miseries or addes one dram of sorrowes more reproacheth his maker Yea If thou doest mock poor King Charles poor Parliament poor Cavaliers or poor Round-heads thou reproachest God in all these if thou doest goe one foot farther It is to make long furrows upon the back of Christ If men or devils should bee obdurate our God is now tender will not still go on to smite his own flesh and blood As God died so are we dead with him England is dead and all her glory greatnesse and justice is slain We departing from God who is our life cannot live and 't is well wee can't live in Gods absence If we could have saved this life we had lost it and losing it we save it For if we had kept it we had kept it against God and now it 's dead it dyes into God It returnes to him from whence it came dying with Christ being offered up by this Priest-hood it goes with Christ dead with him and he saies I go to my Father so that we are fallen indeed into God and there is nothing now but God This is our peace by this the wall of partition 'twixt God and us is broken down and of twain made one new man destroying the enmity that honour power dominion that stood at enmity against God is abolisht slaine in the slaying the earthly creature That which could not endure GOD is brought downe and wee are hereby brought into God By death is destroyed him that had the power of death the Devill his power and interest in the Nation is utterly destroyed his kingdome of darknesse and wrath is broken downe he is cast out and shall no longer destroy the Earth nor deceive the Nation into these mad fightings one against another it is now taken from him that ruled with cruelty envy wrath folly and given to Christ who will Reign in Peace and Righteousnesse in Mercy and Goodnesse And as there is a Union wrought by this death betwixt God and the Kingdome so betwixt KING and Parliament betwen all parties and of two or many we by death are made one man as truly united as head and body as a man to himself And all Ordinances Covenants c. are abolisht Prerogative Kinglinesse is slain lyes in the dust no KING a Prisoner a Captive no Parliament a Rout a Scuffle a confused heap What can you demand of the King He hath nothing to give you mock your selves and him Why are you jealous of him He can't do good or hurt Why do you labour to save your selves from his power or revenge fear a dead power Do you think he shal returne from the grave to vex you Alas it is not he but Devils that trouble you you need not fortify your Parliament with a Militia with Acts against a dead power Or Why should the King contend for a dead Crowne or the People raise Authority from the dust How foolish and vaine are the attempts of his party Being dead on both sides in the grave Heer the wicked cease from troubling The weary Be at rest The prisoners rest together they hear not the voyce of the oppressor The small and great are heer the servant is free from his Master How is it that you vex one another It 's a hel sure and you are Devils one to another Is not the grave enough to swallow up enmity Why should the Parliament insist upon Covenants Promises Ingagements Or the King upon his Honour Prerogative Friends The Law hath power over a man so long as he lived no longer There is no bands now upon you neither party can require any thing of you You have stood it out for your principles for your parties Cavaliers for KING Rounds-heads for Parliament till you and they are all lost together All your engagements for and against each other are taken away Law is slain right property righteousnesse and truth hath forsaken the Earth it is in neither side you may lye stil and be at peace for all is dead for which you contend There doth nothing live but shame sorrow folly and madnesse and that is dead too in your death The King is dead his Majesty is slain crucified and lies in the bowels of the earth that is in his Parliament and People he is descended into us dyed into the Kingdome And hence it is that Parliament men Committee men Army City and Citizens are all become petty Kings Kinglinesse being sow'd in the earth And so though we have lost our King yet we have him in us The King is dead and our life of Majesty our Kingdome died with him we cease to be a Kingdome when our head ceased to rule and are become a herd of wilde Beasts He took us all into himself and so made a rich Sacrifice of al the glory of the Kingdome in one He dyes for us they are our iniquities that denies us the blessing of government we have the benefit of his suffering it is for us By this he comes down into the meanest subject into the worst condition of a subject bonds hee empties himself into us and fills us with Royalty and gives the lowest to have fellowship with the highest by his descending from the Throne into the Prison and his ascending from the Prison to the Throne there is an open way and passage from misery to greatnesse by this the poorest creature in England shal have accesse to the Throne for mercy and justice And the KING shal acknowledge this is my fellow subject my fellow prisoner I am and was as low as meane as he This shall fill punishments with grace and make paines and judgements acceptable from a Prince that is a Brother a fellow-sufferer This is that which onely can fit a KING for Reigning to goe by the Crosse to suffer first by which trialls and temptations he is for ever able to pitty such as are tempted and doe suffer The Parliament is dead also cannot will not out-live the KING puts off her glory with the Kings and sits downe in the dust dyes into the King as the King into the Parliament goes down into his grave follows him and there lyes wrapt up in him the life union and Majesty of the Parliament and as the King arises out of the Parliament so the Parliament out of and with the King The Parliament dyes for the People so constantly adheres to the Peoples rights that She perisheth in the obtaining of them and because She cannot by life She doth and wil by death free us The Cause that She undertook though sensibly be lost yet by her shamfull suffering is confirmed and a Testimony of blood given to a work of Reformation which is more effectual then twenty Bills And so our Parliament doth us most right not being able to help us to lye downe and bear our curse her self She dyes into the Army gives up

glory fil'd both with the same life begotten by the same Spirit The same Spirit that gives majesty and power to one gives the same to the other one fountain fils both your Cisternes two streames coming from the same head two twins lying in the same wombe of the Spirit and it is the same Spirit that lives in you both There can be no difference betwen you you have indeed but one minde but one heart Englands peace honour justice and greatnesse is the substance of both your lives you haue but one subsistence but one happinesse but one breath and ayre Englands joy Englands good you are not one now by outward Oaths and Covenants but by inward Oaths and Covenants by an everlasting Covenant that cannot bee broken The same God and Spirit speaking both or swearing both by himselfe bringing forth both perpetually in the same Oath by himself While he swears to save and deliver his People in England he sweares a good KING and Parliament bringing forth himself he brings forth you or brings forth himselfe KING and Parliament Being brought forth by Gods Spirit there will not come from such a fountain bitter and sweet waters no dissenting affections and bringing forth in both nothing but himselfe but one and the same justice one and the same goodnesse wisdome love to the People ther 's no feare of disagreeing and bringing this forth not in a dark and misty world where you have been subject to mistakes but in the cleare light of the Spirit in the calmnes quietnes opennes freenes of the Spirit there can be nothing but pleasure and mutuall delight in all As you are brought forth by one and in one Spirit so by one another as Man and Woman The same Spirit producing the KING out of the Parliament and so out of the People and the Parliament and People out of the KING As Man is by Woman and Woman of Man The Parliament and People is of the King taken out of his side and from thence formd and built The King is Father and we his children he is the first man in the Kingdome is before all Adam in whose loynes we all were and from him and of him we are our true Civill Father from whom we all receive our Civill beings in whom liberty property peace order honour authority is first originally and chiefly and so from him derived to us Especially the Parliament is taken out of him by his Writ from his heart is the Product of the deep thoughts of his minde which being gathered together are a Parliament As he is ours so we his originall Man is by the Woman The Parliament and People in their fullnesse of time when grown up into maturity bring forth a Government a KING The first-borne their vigor and strength and so property liberty order c. are first in us and then they arise out of us into him And by this continuall motion of the blood life and spirits of the body in a circular course the whole shall be preserved in a lively and lovely state All the strength and power of the Nation continually ascending and descending passing from us upward to the King and thence removes down again to us and so takes the nature of all perfectly refreshes the lowest and taking his meannesse and carries it to the highest to the head being there in-nobled and raised carries its Majesty down into inferiour parts againe and is the same River called by severall names in severall places as the Sea is one only distinct by the shore it washes upon This union by the wisdome and fulness of the spirit is brought forth not in a rude heap but in judgement and proportion in a sweet variety and in such harmony as they are the joy and delight of each other as Husband and Wife one flesh yet two persons so ordered and composed with a pleasant variety that the same which were it only the same and not another would be dull and fruitlesse being thus varied gives delightfull fellowship and profit Such is the fullnesse of this heavenly glory that it is One and not lesse but more in making another The King hath all power and authority and the Parliament hath the same without robbing the King the Parliament having in another way viz a second shall never clash against the first but being one the King hath it in the Parliament in another way then he hath it in himselfe and so his power is enriched and strengthened by it and t is no losse to the Parliament to give it to the KING her Husband whilst she gives it him he being hers shee hath it in him in a more excellent way then she can have it in her self And for either of these to have it alone would be unpleasant solitary and burthensome It s delightfull to see it and enjoy it in another we not so perfectly beholding our selves or loving our selves in our selves as in another sight love and enjoyment requiring another It is the content of greatnes not to be but to propagate greatnes For the King to rule alone can't be so acceptable to him as to conferre Dignity upon his own body his Seed It would bee irksome to have his greatnesse included in himself this is the most proper way of his propagating himself his Parliament and so a Parliament is his own choise his meet help by which he is free and without which he were bound to himself and in himselfe and so to be a King were but to be a pack-horse and for the Woman the Parliament to rule by assistance being called in the bosome and heart of her head pleases her should shee be alwaies in it and necessitated to it it would be her bondage she would desire to resigne it up to her Lord and her selfe choose an easie and pleasant subjection Thus divided it is encreased and nothing lessened but the burthen which while thus equally ballanced is no burthen but the safety of the whole For the King to be the root out of which the body of the tree grows the Parliament and out of her the People the branches and to send forth sap freely whereby the dody is supplied and so every arme branch and twigge that it brings forth good fruit wealth peace content honour power al kindes of prosperity for the King then the people to be the root the Parliament the body the King the head or top and the people to send up by the body riches honour greatnesse as sap into the head whereby he may bring forth fruits of Majesty Justice Greatnesse unto them and so the burthen and the fruit is divided and both be the pleasure and profit ef each other And so is England a Treee of life under which we shall sit and eat the fruit of it in peace and out of which we shall all grow and bring forth fruit of righteousnesse c. The order and manner of this distribution is excellent into a superiour and inferiour a first and second

two without this subordination would not be so safe so profitable nor so delightfull But being two subordinate one to another without offending each other yea to the advantage of each other is exceeding delightfull the King the Father hath all retained People the Son al dispenced in the first its absolute and intire in the second it s propagated enlarged spread-forth The Husband gives the Wife receives hee hath all and bestowes it she hath all and receives it The King saies ask what you will and it shall be given unto you so GOD saies to Christ chuse what Laws and Priviledges you will I le grant it That 's my word and Oath I have no negative voice I can't deny you But this is no wrong to the King for the Parliament being one spirit with him can ask nothing but what he is minded to give as prayers in the Church though GOD bee bound to give yet it s no losse to him because his own Spirit asks for we know not what to ask So the KING is the originall of asking and gives the desire of the thing that which moves the inferiour to desire is most excellent in the superiour and in this is the fulnesse of the King hee shall still call ask of ME and shall still out-goe the desires of the Petitioners and give more then they can ask his heart being more large towards his Spouse or Childe then his Spouse or Childe can bee to it selfe and that minde that is in the Spouse or Childe of good to it selfe is in the Father before it was in the Son and more excellently Neither can the Sonne ask any thing in this spirit that can derogate from the Father for thereby he should prejudice himself and weaken or lessen that power that conveighs good to him and so wrong himself most to wrong his head or fountaine from whence he is supplyed Neither is it any wrong to the Son to have it this way but t is the most perfect way of having it by asking it of another for thus there is a stock and treasure in which is store layd up that is the Sonnes riches the surest and sweetest way of having is by the easy way of asking T is the excellency of it that it 's a gift and that t is free or that it hath the Royall stamp of love and Authority upon it by which it is not a stolne and forced but lawfull and pleasant favour T is a free and ingenious subordination where the inferiour hath power to chuse what it will and chuses to have it in that way and not in another and hath that freedome in asking that is powerfull The woman hath power over the head to command by love and to say as Christ I will have it so and then t is most acceptable to the Father when it is most boldly and freely ask'd it being the great joy of the head to have the wife confident in his love And in this way there is and shal be a river of pleasure running betwen King and people or from King and Parliament and People wherein they shal do nothing but please one another The fulnes of the one compleatly answering the largenesse of the other And the KING having to give what ever the Parliament or People can desire and desiring them to receive as much as they desire him to give and taking more pleasure in creating greatnesse and freedome in them then in possessing of it himself it being his nature and place to give forth and without their receiving honour from him he were not a King and it being as pleasant to the People to receive it from a King it would not content them to have it in themselves but their Kings gift sets the price upon all favours they doe enjoy it s therefore sweet because their Lord bestowes it upon them This is the florishing estate of King and Parliament in their restored life living now in the glory of the Spirit and in union As God and Christ are of themselves are in each other and neither without each other but the Kingdome of both is compleated in their dwelling together in the third the Spirit where they doe continually delight in each other in bestowing themselves upon each other and are most happy in fellowship so 't is a heavenly blessednesse for Head and Body to be thus united and to give and take largely and openly to communicate themselves to each other The King in prosperity in health strength and pleasure is in breaking forth his Majesty upon his Nobles that have affinity to his greatnesse thence to derive it to the People this is a full King in hight bredth and a People ascending through the Lords into the bosome of the King is a People in hight and depth the body in prosperity and pleasure three states in one and one in three in perfect agreement and in compleat unity all make up but one fulnesse one Kingdome Thus each is a Heaven to himself and a Heaven to the other and this conjunction by this righteous law of Spirit the highest Heavens being all in the light and face of the eternall majestty This is the great and main pillar of Englands happinesse the foundation of our comfort which as its most excellent in its self so it will effectually change the whole Kingdome into its forme all parts must follow the condition of King and Parliament yea all are included in it in this our whole happinesse lies The body being thus in health it cannot but send forth nourishment into every part not a man in England but shall presently finde a reviving upon this agreement a new spirit of love joy comfort trade and prosperity is immediatly dispersed into the whole Nation every one leaping for joy in the goodnesse of God and the happinesse of the Nation Chap. XVIII Of the Cure of the People of the Land by this Death and Resurrection THE God of the whole Earth delights to doe great things and to fill the whole earth with his glory The great favour of divine presence of love and peace is not reserved for Princes alone but to be communicated generally to all People That all the ends of the earth may see the salvation of our God You the People of England have sinned Wee have all like sheep gon astray but God laies on him the iniquities of us all Wee see the zeale of Christ under your blinde rage one against another Christ in you in weaknesse and infirmity The Lord saith of you You are my People all my children your families relations comforts and persons are the Lords not one English man or woman but carries the Lord with him and in him The Land-Lord is the Lord of the Earth the Tennant is the Son holding of the Father all he hath The buyer the seller the rich the poor Master and Servant Father and Son Husband and Wife are all but various breakings forth of God and Christ and the severall enjoyments they have