In the Parliament Now is manifest the Son of GOD made flesh and dwelling amongst us Thou art here our Lord incompassed about with infirmities in abundance of weaknesse in temptations feares distresses in so poor a body as thou art not known to them they deny thee kill thee and know not what they do In this forme Thou comest to thy own and thy own receive the not Thou art in them speaking in such dark parables in such confused and un-understood wayes with such a rabble of oppressing Publicans Harlots and sinners about thee that thou art judged a Devil and to mention thee here is blasphemy to all men T is the cry of King and People Away with him away with him he is not worthy to live thou art here loaded with iniquity made sin indeed In the Parliaments assuming the power of the King his Prerogative his revenue we hear the Lord say All that the Father hath hath he given unto me All power in Heaven and in Earth The King is with us we have his power c. Christ saies in this dark poor forme The Father and I am one the Father is me the words that I speak are his and the works that I do He gives me to do them I come from the Father Thus the Son goes forth for a while appeares amongst men and the Father conceals himselfe and is not seen but in the Son and the Son challenging the honour name and power of the Father In the Parliaments undertaking the work of reformation and failing in it We now see the Lord in flesh coming amongst us and entering into The Temple and over turning the mony changers turning out those buiers and sellers those worldly Episcopall party that turn'd religion into a trade and worship into meer gaine and preferment prophesying anew forme a Kingdome but at last lost in it saying I have laboured in vaine I have spent my strength for nought and suffering under this accusation that he would destroy the Templets c. yea the Kingdome too And so the Romans come in and take away both our Place and Nation That he was a rebel to Caesar so crucified in shame betrayed sold and his Disciples leaving of him doubting his word saying We thought he would at this time have Redeemed Israel Our Lord is here in weaknesse failing in his attempts marred in his vizage more then any man so that all turne away their faces from him In the oppressing and confused Government of the Parliament We now see our LORD come not to send peace but a sword to set Father against Son and Son against Father c. Setting two against three and three against two requiring us to leave Father and Mother Houses and Lands for his Name threatning to undoe us and to strip us of all bringing of us to nothing wasting and spoiling the riches of the Nation so disolving of us that we must be borne again new-moulded in a baptisme of bloud In the Parliaments endeavour to preserve the Kingdome to uphold and maintain the freedome of it wee see the love of Christ to the World and his desire of saving it we hear him say Oh England England how often would I have gathered thee c. In the zeal and rage of both parties against each other we see darkly come forth the wrath of God against his enemies God fighting with those that fight against him the fiercenesse of the vengeance of Heaven against his adversaries cursing them raining snares and fire and brimstone upon them Thus doth the holy God dwell with and under the roofe of sinfull man Thou that knowest no sin art made sin Thou livest in those fleshly formes Thou sendest forth spirit and they are created And then doth blow upon them and they dye and wither lose their goodnesse and beauty and are tossed about as vanity as chaffe in the wind That thou mightest destroy them thou commest into the likenesse of sinfull flesh that thou migtest consume sin in the flesh appearest in flesh and so against it and under it that thou mayest at last save it And unfoldest the brightness of thy face and glory to be in perfect and undefiled purity in and under the vilenesse and basenesse of the creatures Chap. XIIII Of the second thing in saving of the Nation The Death of Christ and our fellowship in it AS God bears our sinnes so he suffers under them and we suffer in and with him and thereby is iniquity taken away T is by blood that we have remission of sinne God dwelt in the Kingdom The power of the King it was Gods God was in that majesty and dominion God was in the right and freedome of the Parliament in the peace and happinesse of the Nation in the wealth and honour of the City in the power and strength of the Army in the glory and order of the Church And God suffers in the death of all these he suffers with us loses in our losses not our blood alone but his is shed not our goods onely wasted but the Lords his they are and were and God is in union with them and suffers in them The Lord is made a curse for us our sin hath brought this curse upon God This is a sacrifice well pleasing unto God sufficient for ever to take away iniquity and to appease divine justice Though destruction should for ever wast England it would never be satisfyed but feeding upon the glory of God eating so deep into Englands sides as to reach the heart of God t is time for it to say I have enough let anger cease it doth feed upon God himself Cease to trample upon the head of King Charles God is there thou tramples upon God in him Cease to confound our Parliament Christ is there Cease to destroy the Nation t is a holy and heavenly Nation Now we are reconciled to God we were divided by death now one in death or God so loves us and is so neer to us as to suffer with us and for us our friend indeed that hath layd down his life for us The glorious love of our God is triumphing with us in and over death God is in our misery insulting over it O death I le be thy plague c. and so makes death sweet to us thou art now a lovely bed wherein our Lord and we being uncloathed of life lie down together death rends the vail and takes us into a naked enjoyment of GOD because wee could not live together our earthly in Gods heavenly Kingdome therefore must we die together we die because we have left God and he comes and dyes with us will not live without us but comes into the grave to us so that he might deliver us thence Thou destroying Angell proceed no farther The blood of God cries peace and you English mad to destroy cease crucifying the Lord of glory every wound you make Pierces the heart of God every sad and grieved spirit afflicts God every stone of scorne or
receive law honour justice and protection from my selfe you shall now see the beauty sweetnesse and goodness of my government I le be a King to and in every one of you And I le reign over you in and by King Charles I will take him out of the prison of Satans darknesse out of the pit of the world from all his vilenesse of lusts of oppression coveteousnesse folly fiercnesse wrath and from all his shame and dishonour from his evill counsellers wicked spirits that have seduced him to evil into my bosome and turne his heart as a river of water It shal no longer be mudded with evill counsellers nor with pride coveteousnesse cruelty but run in a pure stream of Divine justice and goodnesse and so largely and plentifully that it shall flow forth freely upon you Righteousnesse shall run down your streets A fountain of honour as wel as justice that shal give reall true not titular honour to his People that shal stream forth Majesty and greatnesse as freely into the whole Nation as the Sun doth beames he shall freely communicate Royalty that it shal be every ones and every one shal live in the view and enjoyment of it and fully satisfied with it it being truly his own A King enlarged with the largenesse of God that comprehends all his People as the sands on the Sea shore and is an Ocean of goodnesse and righteousnesse to cover those sands whose Armes of love can at Once imbrace the whole Kingdome every party and person that carries every English man in his bosome That impartially wil communicate favour to every one according to his true worth and ability to receive it of large wisdome fil'd with the wisdome of God of quick and piercing understanding to execute judgement in all causes one living in the light of GOD shin'd upon with the Majesty of God that he shal not be deceiv'd by flatterers but shal scatter all such mists from before the Throne that of all places wicked men and wicked things shal fly from the Court and presence of the King Of such tendernes that he shall really bear the burthens of all his subjects and every mans trouble shal make him restlesse that cannot be fully content til he hath fully satisfied all the wants of his People That is all mildnesse and gentlenesse to his own People as a Father and terrible only to your adversaries whose indignation is bent continually against the enemies of his People and his childrens peace a Lion to them but a Lambe a Shepherd to you A Prince Mighty with the Mightinesse of God able to do you good mighty in word and deed able to save you and to destroy them that hate you A King that hath no joy or delight but the good and prosperity of his People T is your happynesse only that is his Crowne that knows no glory but a loyall and loving People that is King only to make you happy and your happinesse is his Kingdome or health and prosperity in the People grows up into a lively flower of glory a King or breaths out it selfe in his Majesty So the KING is the breath of our nostrils That is indeed a King Anointed by God by and in the grace of God that is covered over with Divine grace that is nothing but what God is and hath all the Kinglines of God shining in him With whom and in whom you shal nakedly see the face of Divine justice and in whom the glory of God doth take pleasure to shew it self and not as another from him but in perfect Vnion in truth and righteousnesse where there is nothing to seperate nor part the earthly from the heavenly King but the earthly is in agreement in covenant with the heavenly living together in the same Spirit The heavenly God being intire himself and the King intire himself yet both but one in true marriage and conjunction for ever a bond and covenant that never shall be broken the King in God God in the King The King is what God is and God is what the King is neither alone God all in him he all in God He that opposeth one opposth both hee that loveth one loveth both exclude one you exclude both deny one you deny both disobey one you disobey both This is heaven and earth married together in harmony and agreement and the King that once appeared an Image of God a shadow in which he was weak and which he hath dyed to and the evill and corrupt part left in the grave hee is raised up in the very substance in Vnion in Spirit in Truth in Eternall fellowship with GOD. Chap. XVI Of the Parliament in its Raised estate ALL things are made new a new King and a new Parliament a new Head and a new Body a Heavenly body a Host of Divine excellencies in which all the perfections of the Son of GOD shines An assembly or body of Christ The fullnes of him who fills all in all not only a company of weak men But this is thy new name The LORD is there GOD is with us Christ in glory in Majesty Highly exalted Thou in whom are hid The treasures of wisdome thou sittest in Councell to draw forth excellent Laws for us and to rule in the midst of us One chosen out of the People in which meet in one the life spirit and wisdome of heaven The LORD is here challenging the Kingdome to be his here is gathered the heads of the Tribes a congregation of the first borne the chief and choisest Saints and Angels collected and imbodied into one Son of God The LORDS Christ he saith I am here your flesh and blood one of you I 'le provide and constitute wholsome Laws for you in this Parliament And this Parliament taken out of all its filth and guilt out of all its madnesse and disfraction folly and confusion out of the hands of the envious man that divides destroies from under cursed darknesse violence and oppression from the Peoples woe and curse I 'le wash it and cleanse it and fill it with Majesty and goodnesse make it a mountain of holinesse a City of Righteousnesse Arise shine for thy light is come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee Thou shalt no longer sit in darknesse Thy Sun shall go down no more thou shalt not stumble nor fall for want of light thou shalt not dash thy foot against a stone The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory The Sun of righteousnesse is Risen in thee with healing under his wings Thou now art Divine justice A habitation of justice where justice it selfe shal delight to dwell No unclean thing shall be found in thee living alwaies in the righteousnesse of Christ thou shalt be seperated from sinners blamelesse live in a hight of righteousnesse above accusation The Lord Our Righteousnesse The Saviour of the People thy walls shall be called salvation and thy gates praise sending forth saving health
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
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
quarters which threatens famine upon you Squeesd by taxes wrack'd with war the anvill indeed of misery upon which all the stroakes of vengeance fall A wofull Nation once the freest people in the world now the veriest slaves slaves not to one but to many Masters and those many of various and different tempers by whom you are forced to be sometimes one way sometimes another And the Church which is the joy of Saints strangely confounded that none almost knows his owne or his Neighbours Religion in such a mist of darknesse are you Chap. VIII Shewing the wickednesse of the Ministry or Clergy and their judgement THe Clergy so called have a great hand in the evills of these times and require an especiall discovery But I purpose more fully herafter to open the state of the Church and to shew the particular evils and good of every sect with their defects the reason of their difference and so reduce them all to their proper place and order which is the true vniformity And therefore shall only at this time take notice of them briefly and as respecting these evill distractions The Clergy are deeply concernd and especially eyed by Divine justice a corrupt generation and horribly departed from their Lord and Rule Christ The Son of God the Prophet the Prest the Bishop is the life original and true patterne of al Ministry And there is no true office that Christ doth not constitute by his owne presence nor no right dispensation of that office if Christ himselfe do not administer and be the thing administred and therefore all others are Antichristian and Babylonian In whom the Spirit and power of the Holy Anointing lives not It s true that the Clergy of England all sorts of them that have appeared upon this preset stage Episcopacy Presbytery and Independency have their particular excellencies from particular Angels assisting them The Bishops grave Magisteriall Authoratative Honourable and having imprinted upon them a dark and earthly form of Christ The great Bishop and of him in his Lordly or Royall priest-hood as he is exalted The Presbyters being laborious painfull zealous earnest affectionate carrying an image of the Elders and Apostles of the Church The Independent delighting in a more particular and intire union with his people of greater strictnesse and exactnesse and personal care of his flock is more truely in the Pastors or Teachers place But they are all earthly and carnall darkning the true light of Christ in their ministry and holding forth the name of Christ but not the power but their owne parts opinions readings humane and weak affections yea have wickedly departed from their Master and do not worship in the Temple in Heaven in the new Jerusalem but in Aegypt and Babylon of this world where the Lord is crucified and stand at a distance from and enmity to the Spirit of Christ They professe Christ in their way that is in enmity to him they professe they are not with him nor he with them glory in their shame which is a Worldly and a Devillish life They are ignorant of heaven came not from heaven are not in heaven neither returne they to heaven they judge not things in the light of heaven nor know things as they are in the booke of life the Scriptures of truth as they are in the Spirit of God but as they are written and spoken of in the world and so are blinde guides and have led the blinde people of this Nation into a ditch of destruction on all sides Their great unlikenes to Christ appeares in these things First Christ is Anointed with the Spirit of God he is sent of God he comes from the Father Hath all power given him in Heaven and Earth But these men all of them derive not their ministry but from men at best according to the outward fashion of the letter of the Word and so from Paul c. and that they follow most lamely and so far only as serves their turne taking indeed their ministry themselves from their earthly Fathers according to the customes and traditions of men therefore have no power at all but the power of their own reason which being weaknes it self they presently run to the power of the Magistrate and strengthen themselves with that whithout which they are most contemptible and despisable things The Bishops take away the King and what becomes of them The Presbyters if the Parliament fail they fall into the ditch Secondly Christ emptied himself and became of no reputation took upon him the form of a servant but these men are one all sides stickling for worldly greatnesse contending by all waies of cunning and policy to raise themselves to the highest point of preferment in their severall spheres pleading for their honour from the People urging and forcing from the People respect to the Ministers each party in their seasons labouring might and main with blood to uphold that interest in the Nation that they have gotten and pressing upon mens consciences to fight for Religion which is their means places honours and safeguards Thirdly Christ fore-told and desired his sufferings The Baptisme that he was to be baptized with But these men never knew their own or the Kingdomes sufferings to give or take warning but fild with the visions of their own hearts prophesie pleasing things in their seasons The glory of the Church blessed times great and wonderfull things And if their sufferings hath been declared to them by God they would not hear it but as Peter in his satanicall pride Master be it far from thee and when they had gotten into the mount of Court and Parliament favour then they cry It s good to be heer abhorring the thoughts of suffering And would be reigning upon the Throne before they touch upon the Crosse These carnall Gospellers are in all their thoughts enemies to the Crosse of Christ 4. Christs Ministry was glory to God on high on Earth Peace c. But these mens is glory to themselves and to their King and their Parliament and for want of this a sword fighting like Satans Priests Preaching and speaking the fire of their rage Pulpit incendiaries pronouncing curses and judgements upon their brethren and so giving them up to the sword of one another Priests indeed not to offer up their honours places preferments and lives to purchase peace a Christ did and they should But have offered up the Kingdome a Sacrifice to their own blinde zeale and carnall lusts together In stead of standing in the gap have made a gap and increased the divisions of the times casting not water to quench but Oyle to inflame the differences of the Nation not laying down their lives but seeking the lives of others to serve their ends Fifthly Your bitter and violent persecuting each other when you have gotten power into your hands You have been in your severall seasons the ruine of each other denying each other subsistance or the exercise of each others gifts Far from the love
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
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
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