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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

seven times have passed over you you shal returne to your Throne and true Majesty shall be given to you and your Nobles and Kingdomes shall honour you all shall freely bow to you and you shall command and Reign againe to the terrour of your adversaries and joy of your friends now the prison doors stand open to you and you shall returne to your Royall Parliament and City after seaven yeares banishment We have now a King in whom we can confide as in God now the LORD lives in him t is impiety and wickednesse to have a thought of distrust concerning him the sure justice and righteousnesse of God inhabits in the Throne as its proper place We have a King according to our own hearts hee lives in our hearts arises out of our hearts and our hearts give him his dominion hee hath all we have and hath not too much because he hath us too and nothing but what we freely give one higher by the head then all the People having the wisdome of the whole in him of the largest understanding and therefore King because he doth in true worth excell any in the Nation and is of all men fittest to reign fitted by his great suffering and Gods fulnesse dwelling in him This is the QVEENS interest she may return to the King there is no fear now she cannot hurt either Parliament or Religion both being in such a condition as cannot be hurt besides living in this light of all she shall most love the Parliament it being the same with her self the Kings Consort and she being the same with it concurring together in severall wayes to help and honour the King if she should attempt any thing against it it would be against the King and her self The Parliament administring about the affairs of the kingdom that the King may enjoy his Queen and Family with greatest plenty honour ease and pleasure and the Queen administring in the domesticall affairs of the King about his Person that the king may enjoy his Parliament and people in greatest content and freedom The Parliament in businesse of State a Queen lying in the bosome of the king and the Queen in private and personall affairs a Parliament and so Parliament and Queen interested joynd in one interest And for her religion we are now so far from being afraid of it that we rejoyce in it and in her great interest in the Papacie For as the Papists had by her designs upon us so now the streame being turned we shall by her design upon them and over-runne the whole Papacie with light and truth she shall be the doore by which we shall enter into all the riches and honours of the Papacie and without injury to them we shal spoyle them of all their glory or rather bring a glorious fire amongst them that shall out-shine theirs and burn up theirs into it self The PRINCE his Interest is here satisfied he is indeed one with the Parliament they he are brethren descended both from the loyns of the king and are one in various forms each being the glory of the king the staffe of his age Christened at the same Font the Spirit of Christ both the hope and joy of England both being the glory of the King propagated unto eternity a never failing off-spring and flourishing in the vigour and youthfulnesse of the Son of God both interested into Christ or the interest of Christ and so of each other The LORDS who have lost their Nobility sunck in disgrace scattered and almost buried in dishonour by this shall be restored not to airy empty Titles but to true Nobility The Lord doth appear Lord of Lords your Lord owning Lordlinesse and filling of it with himself as well as king of kings and as he sets a Crown of pure gold upon the head of the King so Coronets of pure Gold upon yours you shall shine as stars in this Firmament in wisdome holinesse justice and goodnesse and be in affinity to the King that head ennobled with heavenly Majesty fit to be about the Throne and advanced to be the shoulders and brest of the Nation next the head The Kings party are here fully satisfied to see their King restored to the honour and greatnesse of his Ancestors his Progenitors which is into the glory of God the great king the Kings true Father They that contend for KNOWNE LAWES by this the Laws are known by God brought out of the dust of the earth in which they were trampled upon and restored into the brightnesse and life of God And now we shall see the whole body of the English Lawes interpreted and opened to us by the wisdome of God and all drawn forth into life and power by the Spirit of God as we see the fundament all Law of King and Parliament written in the face of God and Christ by the Spirit You shall have Religion in the OLD WAY in the good old way DIVINE SERVICE wherein every part of it shall be irradiated with the Beams of Divinity and in every thing you shall see the Face of God and have fellowship with the Divine Nature Religion shall be adorned with Solemnity State Pomp Glory Ease Musick all Heavenly and Earthly together such as may allure and please the mindes of men and there shall be nothing harsh or rude in it yea rudenesse it self shal have its comlinesse You shall have your sports pleasures we will sing together in the hight of Zion young men maids daunce together without offence or iniquity all in the innocency holinesse and joy of God your whole life a course of pleasure all things yea labour and pains shall be recreations God recreating all things or making all things new they shall be sweet and delightfull you shall have your Holy-dayes yea your whole life shall be spent in holy-daies a continuall rest the great Jubile You the more civil and solid of that party that sincke into a retired condition in these tempestuous times that lie quietly and patiently in your graves of your owne and the Kindomes sufferings your resurrection is come and you shall revive and in a new spirit act for and in the prosperity of the Nation And you mad Lads shall SWEARE Now the Lord lives in truth righteousnesse and judgement and know him present with you sweare by the eternall God the Spirit filling every oath with truth you shall curse your enemy the Devil with all plagues to the pit of hell and so dam him and ram him in that he shal no more come forth to trouble you you shall eate and drink freely and forget your selves and your sorrow and in it be filled with the Spirit of the Lord be raisd into high mirth and jollity drink so freely of this new wine of the kingdome till you are drunk out of your own wits into the Princely Spirit of God and then ever speak and act things of love worth bravery and excellency This is the KINGS HEALTH his saving health his union

it in infirmity and weaknesse T was the true light shining in darknesse but the darknesse comprehended it not We knew not our own filicity God was nigh to us the Kingdome of God in all his glory was in the mid'st of us and we were not aware of it The Lord did Reign amongst the Children of men and they knew it not while he was present they set him of a distance and would not receive their own life but in enmity did cover the face of God the majesty and Kingdome of God and gloried in their poor shadow T was a beautifull but earthly vessel raised up for a time a temporary greatnes a corruptible Crowne that we have seen standing and flourishing in prosperity but its period of happinesse is come and you shall now see it in its declining diseased corrupt estate end falling Chap. II. Shewing the Kingdome of England in its corrupt and declining estate YOu have seen the fair inside of England now you shall see the filthy outside of it The holy God took it into conjunction and felowship now casts it off into rejection and reprobation In the first his glory shin'd in this its abominable wickednesse and wofull ruine appear This Heavenly glory being in love with the earthly shadow of it self desires to approach nearer unto it and to dwell with it in a more intire and perfect union and to swallow it up into it self that it might no longer subsist out of him but be found in him But as God approaches this earth fled from his brightnes being a fraid to be swallowed into its own Life and being weake and jealous of the great love of God chose rather to continue its old form and its earthly happinesse The goodlines and majesty of God was cloathed and hid in this worldly Kingdome as a treasure in an earthen vessel T was his pleasure to break the vessel to rend and tear the old garment that he might come forth and cloath that with his glory that cloathed him with its basenes But the Pot-sherd did strive with his Maker and would not yeeld or offer up it self to God but doated upon it selfe and its own beauty Therefore God threw it off into a dark and inordinate idolizing it self to a worldly and satanicall seperation from God and love of it self making it self the substance and God the shadow and so grew to an earnest minding of its present happines and threw off God into a strangenesse and distance not to be conversed with in this world but referd him to another making those two which God hath made one Hence grew in the whole Nation King and People in all parts an eagar love of worldly things and as God threatens to take it down that he might set up the heavenly so much the more earnestly did they cleave to it and fall further and further from God and more and more laboured to load themselves with thick clay and so the whole Kingdome in opposition to the divine will are in ambition and covetuousnesse set to advance their worldly state heer is the fatall breach betwixt God and man twixt Heaven and England This breach is made by the Devil the wicked one the God of this World by which the Kingdome is become Satans and divided from God And being thus cut off from its head and life God it cannot but fall into divisions The Spirit of God fayling the band of union it must quickly be in distraction There was a destroying in the whole but it first appeared twixt head and body Thus. All parts finding their foundation fayling and some disease and disturbance in the body each begin to stickle for it self and its own interest as distinct from the other The King having a misgiving that his greatnes did not increase but rather sinck thirsts after more absolutenesse thinks it a debasing to his Royalty to have any in conduction with him as good be no King as to be in dependance upon others and so growes weary of the Parliament The People finding their liberty and priviledge sinking too begin to be jealous of their Prince and accounting him a Tyrant afraid they were going into slavery finding an obstruction in the body that favour did not flow so freely from the head as it use to doe disdaining to be kept at a distance from Government and the affaires of States growing impatient of the Princes waies censure his actions and to have a longing itch after government Drawing thus severall waies there growes of head and members two factions The Count and Royall and episcopall party and the Country People and puritan party These two grow from jealousies and discontents to malignity one against another to watch for advantages one against the other and to seek the advancing themselves and the ruining of each other labouring all that the could to rob each other and to pull and snatch from each other to strengthen themselves and so growing to a deadly enmity and when the body meet in a Parliament and so head that party they are strongly divided and the whole Kingdome being shaken and broken fall to peeces according to the working of their severall and various principles To the King goes men of honour as the Nobility and Gentry much whose honour is predominate over their reason and Religion The Episcopall patty being Monarchicall growing out of the root of the King and paternall much the Fathers of the Church men of implissit Faith whose conscience is much regulated by their superiours men that are high and great admirers of Kinglinesse taken much with that Ordinance of a King And a vast number of loose men men of no Religion but the King To the Parliament men who of a lower state and exercising their own reasons in Religion zealous and wel-affected People men of industry and labour that love freedome and to be somthing themselves Men whose consciences are their owne and so strict in them Cities Corporations Bodies and men that highly honour the Parliament men zealous for generall and common Good And by the accesse of these Parties to each other they are strengthened in their opposition of each other and fitted for their mutuall ruine Chap. III. Shewing the Kings Errors The Kingdome being divided into two parties the King first carries away The Golden ball of Government who though taken off and seperated from his true Basis The King of Kings yet is assisted by a mighty Angell by whose help he rules awhile alone and with more good and lesse evill then those that succeed In which hee appeares in High and masculine vertue as a Father mighty severe and terrible The great and undoubted Image of God living in a supremacy beyond and above all questons honoured with fear and devotion But alas being alone he soon declines his good Angel leaves him and so not able long to manage the Scepter But oppressed with his owne guilt and the curse of GOD quickly is forced to resigne it to others It hath been the Kings

the mutuall health and welfare of each other The KING it he could ruine the Parliament should but destroy his own body himself in another his own flesh and the Parliament in destroying the KING destroy themselves in their head The Parliament have conquered the King but have gotten onely this by it to be a confused head-lesse heap and put off their naturall head to put on another to be headed by an Army a faction and if the King should doe as much and conquer the Parliament he would be unhappy in it and he would be the head not of a body but a confused rabble not a King indeed but a friend his party would Levell with him and expect to be Kings with him he would be in as great a confusion without a Parliament as the Parliament without the King As they are broken divided set in enmity and malignancy one against another so are the parts disordered The head the King laid in the bottom the Parliament upon him the Army hath been and when occasion serves can be uppermost The Kingdome stands upon his head The Parliament came forth of the King and Army forth of Parliament now the King can't come forth but it must bee from the Parliament as the Parliament comes forth of the Army Divided and subdivided broken into King and Parliament Parliament and Army Army and City City and Parliament England and Scotland Scotland their divisions Ireland divided from both and subdivided amongst themselves But the destroyer hath most shewed his cunning in our divisions so perfectly and artificially are we intangled and perplext in distractions as there is no escaping The KINGS party divided and some fallen in with the Scotch and Presbyterian which they perfectly hate and yet are joyned to them Others rather chuse to sit stil or have better love to the Independent interest ther 's another conjunction in dislike dis-junction The Parliament is divided some look back to the KING others had rather stand against him both jealous of him yet forced to looke towards him The Presbyterian joyning part to the Cavaliers and part to the Independent and both hating those they joyne too The City falling to peeces too Thus doth God shake the Nations jumbles their principles together scatters them as dried bones that none knows whether to go to joyne The King is shut up in his pit in his prison under the Army and Parliament he must make his way through their blood to come to the Crown and when he hath done that he must again ruine those by whom he riseth the Scots and when he hath done that he is yet but miserable and is worse then where he is The Parliament must goe through the Kings party to their end by the Army and when they have done that they must ruine the Army and Independent intolerable to them and then they arrive but at confusion The Army must destroy the Kings party first and then the Parliament and at last it gains nothing but to be a wretched nothing The City must ruine the Kings party or else wo be to them and the Independent too or else they can have no settlement and then the Parliament and they may have leasure to fight alone Hambletons Scots have the English Nation wholly to destroy before they can come to his end both Army Parliament and KING and their own Nation at home And what then Then there will be roome to fight with the Irish so that wee are involved in destruction shut up under severall locks and bolts and to get out of one is but to be out of a lesse into a greater or larger hell Therefore its impossible to recover your selves by force you may wrastle and tug with your fates and weary your selves with toyling but by all you will but sink your selves deeper and by your false hipocritical and unnaturall conjunctions of heterogeneous bodies make new matter of difference and increase your own misery Neither can a Treaty compose you in the condition in which you are you are in death and under the curse and all your actions are and shall be accursed The Nation is not only broken but as dried bones have lost their marrow of Vnion their spirit of Love it hath neither flesh of softnesse and gentlenesse nor sinews of agreement Neither doth there appeare that wisdome and skill to binde up these breaches King lost disabled Nobles scattered weake inconsiderable things Commons distracted hurried after their vaine imaginations Of all the sonnes that the kingdome hath brought forth there is none to guide her to take her by the hand to lead her out of this pit The end of Treating at best is but to settle the Kingdome in its former worldly estate T is looking back to Aegypt we are in the wildernesse and must on to Canaan It were woefull if wee should lose the fruit of all our blood and misery that we have suffered and only be where we were which will quickly fall back into the condition we are now in No the Divine purpose is of some higher favour to us and short of it we must not sit down Besides This Treaty is not voluntary but forced not open and plaine but false each seeking to catch advantages and in darknesse and jealousie fearfull and unblieving which will blast them sin and iniquity unpardoned the wrath of God still flaming against the Nation unquenchable by all the art of man that will render all humane attempts vaine and fruitlesse Heer lies England as Sodom burning in the displeasure of God in Civil bloody warres in madnesse and folly The Majesty and honour of the Mation confounded and lost in the KING the liberty and justice of it in the Parliament the power and might of it in the Armies the religion and truth of it in the Church the wealth and trade in the City the fruits of the earth by warre and unseasonable weather and ALL in the losse of Gods favour Heer is the Kings curses of his people and imprecations of judgements upon themselves and families brought forth to the life That mad party that cry Dam me and Ram me that drink healths to the confusion of the Parliament t is done you live to see it The other side that have Covenanted the exterpation of Episcopacy root and branch t is finished fully The Parliament and the KING their root or the Laws of the Land out of which they grew the Nation her self the Church all rooted out And all sects and schismes Presbytery it self for one pul'd up by the rootes Your fears have brought forth the thing you feard is upon you The removing of the Candlestick the losse of the Gospell The whole Kingdome is left in Hideous darknesse And the glory of it is gon from you That persecution feared by Independents is come Satan the destroyer is upon you wasting killing imprisoning all true glory light righteousnesse peace And the answer of your many prayers for destruction upon the enemies of Christ your selves and