THE LEAVES OF THE TREE OF LIFE: For the healing of THE NATIONS. Opening all the wounds of this Kingdom, 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 settled upon a sure and unmoveable Foundation:  
By the Light GOD shining upon WILLIAM SEDGWICK.  
Do you not know that the Saints shall Judge the World?  
LONDON, Printed by H. for Giles Calvert, at the black spread-Eagle, at the West end of Paul's. 1648.   

THE PREFACE TO THE WHOLE KINGDOM.  
REad, and wonder, I know thou wilt, to see the Lord so soon upon English ground: you are surprised, taken fast asleep: Awake, stand up, 'tis the Lord: he is come to save us: he was with us upholding our former prosperity, and we knew it not; he is now with us fight against our worldly state, in such a dark cloud as we are more ignorant of him; he will now unveil himself, and you shall see him in open face of love and Salvation, and say, This is the Lord. While you are under him in the World, you will find his feet as fine brass burning in a furnance:: His steps will be hard to break you in pieces; fiery to consume you; yet fine, holy and just: suffer that and he will take you up into his arms, and bind you to himself with a golden girdle of love, and show you a face as bright as the Sun shining in his strength, giving you rich love, life and light: he is severe that will astonish; but merciful that will comfort: he is very low in the bottom of your sins and miseries; there the flesh will despise him, but your wants will rejoice in him and say, such a high Priest we need: but exalted very high in the largeness of lovingkindnesse, sure that will please you, and the evil one only can be troubled at it: England it is thy Shepherd, the Porter will and must open to him: and the Sheep will hear his voice, while he calleth them by their names, they will follow him, and he will lead them out of their misery: and he goeth before them (In every way of suffering and deliverance he is first) sure you will not follow a stranger, but flee from him: he saith, All that went before me are thiefs and robbers: they are hirelings (and come for wages) they come not but to steal, to kill and to destroy (so have all done yet) They are hirelings, and the sheep are not theirs: But I am the good Shepherd, I lay down my life for the Sheep: I am come that they might have life (after their death) and that they might, have it more abundantly (than ever they had it) I will seek that which is lost, and bring again that which was driven away; and will bind up that which was broken; and will strengthen that which was sick: and I will feed them in a good pasture, upon the high mountains shall their fold be etc. I know the narrownes of man's heart will say, who hath heard such a thing? Who hath seen such things? Shall the earth bring forth in one day? shall a Nation be born at once? Will Christ appear in the earth? or if in the earth, in a whole Nation? what Christ under the sins of the Kingdom? his blood shed in a Nation? a Saviour of the Earth? and this in so short a season, all at once? To this I only answer: My thoughts are not as your thoughts, nor my ways as your ways: but as far as heaven is above earth; so far are my ways above your ways, saith the Lord: This I do rejoice in, and so wilt thou, that here is light to be seen, and eyes to see with: that he can open and enlarge the minds of men, and bring them out of prison, and make them able to receive the truth, This is truth, light to show this truth in, eyes to receve it, and love to rejoice in it.  
We have no enemy but the devil, and he will make all the resistance he can: poor, weak man may doubt, fear, etc. but Satan will blaspheme, rage and say, 'tis impossible, 'tis blasphemy, 'tis against God, against man: But thou enemy thy discovery is thy ruin: thou shalt not speak a word against this Lord but it shall be manifest 'tis thou a murderer, a liar, a destroyer, that hath no portion in this thing, and therefore wouldst destroy that that will destroy thee, and deliver the Kingdom out of thy destroying hands: thou art cast down; thy Kingdom of darkness is broken by the light of the day of God: thou shalt prevail no longer in this Kingdom: O Leviathan we now can draw thee out with a hook, and thy tongue with a cord; thou shalt now make supplications to us, and speak soft words to us: we now take thee for a servant, play with thee as with a bird, and our companions shall make a banquet of thee, etc. Therefore depart thou as smoak before the presence of the Lord.  
Here is one that hath the Keys of David that can enter into the Kingdom, bring forth the prisoners, judge them and save them from Satan's cruelty and wrath: These are the Leaves, not the fruit of the Tree of life; the cure is upon the Nation in general, that is the subject in hand; not men in their particular and personal estate, that is yet to come: This is Elijah who comes before the great and dreadful day of the Lord: to turn the heart of the Fathers to the Children, and the heart of the Children to their Fathers; lest I come and smite the earth with a curse: The Lord in the spirit of Elijah, the dawning of the day upon the top of the mountain, washing and cleansing the outward skin of the Nation, to prepare for further and greater glory, and to remove the present curse of hell, and wrath that is devouring of you▪ I have no more to say to you, but stand still and patiently hear your doom from the Throne of God advancing itself in  
WILLIAM SEDGWICK.   
THE LEAVES OF THE TREE of LIFE, For the healing of the NATION.  

Chap. I.  
Showing the happy and flourishing condition in which the Kingdom of England once stood, and the ground of it.  
THE Earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof, the world and all that dwelss therein: For he hath founded it upon the Seas, etc. The divine goodness delights to bring forth itself in the whole creation: and upon all things stamps his own likeness.  
Especially the heavenly man, taketh pleasure to bring forth a brief Epitome of himself in his image man: The families of Heaven have engraven their likeness upon the Families of the Earth: The new Jerusalem the City of God, bestows her shape and beauty upon these Cities: But the highest glory of God in his Kingdom, is drawn forth in the Kingdoms of this world, and therefore they are above all, The Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ.  
Above all the Nations, this of England (with her two sisters Scotland and Ireland) is with peculiar favour separated from the World: Being an Island embraced with arms and Seas of righteousness, peace, safety, and the knowledge of God: The bosom of the earth where the divine glory chooseth 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 here but is spoken by God; made by the Word of God; and doth again speak God. A fruitful and beautiful Earth, meeting with and married unto a pleasant and powerful Heaven, in a healthful and temperate Spirit and Air do bring forth abundance of excellent fruit: Especially those rich Flocks of Sheep that cover the Earth, shows the Soil to be the Lambs, and to were his Livery; and so to be his Storehouse, from whence he will  the world with garments of Salvation.  
In the disposition of the People of England shine many sparks and beams of divine majesty, ingenuity and freedom; gentleness and mildness; zeal and devotion; gravity and wisdom; stoutness and courage; nobleness, and greatness of spirit; aptness for general and high undertake: which renders them feared, honoured and beloved abroad; and fit instruments of good to the Universe. As other Nations are furnished 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 lustre doth discover itself 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 several fullness: and do themselves, veiled and covered over with fleshly forms, unite and govern us in righteousness and peace.  
First, the Father advances the King in his own likeness, 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 Kingdom. In him (as in God the Father) is all the Majesty, Honour, Justice and Riches of the Kingdom.  

1. In unity, bound up close in one Person: all in its Centre: hence it comes, and hither it returns.  
2. In Head and Fountain; the original from whence honour and justice flows.  
3. In Priority or prerogative: in him as highest and Supreme.  
4. But more hid and deeply concealed, 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 Son appears in the People (especially as they are formed in one Representative the Parliament) and by his fullness, makes them the Body of the Head: The Wife, the Spouse; And so gives them all the Majesty, Honour, justice and Riches of the Kingdom: and that that is in the King to be in them.  

1. Divided and multiplied; not bound up in centre, 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. Embodied and drawn forth into open view, more visible and manifest unto others.   
Thus are they the King's yoak-fellows, a meet help & have what ever he hath; his Son and heir. And being raised into a Parliament by the King's 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 privileges to them.  
Thirdly, The Spirit the third Person, he by the Law, and by mutual Covenants binds these two together, and is the marriage that joins them, or the house of love in which they both live in peace and happiness with each other, and disposes both into a just and equal 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, etc. 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 advantageous to the body; and so to the body as is most advantageous to the head. The body hath it best in the Kings having of it, with that honour, safety and union as she cannot have it in herself. And the head hath it best in the bodies having of it with that fruitfulness 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 itself into the Authority of Parliament, as a husband giving himself to his wife: and the Parliament only being what she receives from the King; so they mutually nourish, support & uphold each other; and being divided and separated, they presently whither away and die. They both have it and both give it; the body gives it to the head, and receives it from the head in several ways; 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 sinews; 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 honourable in the Prince, and the prince mighty and strong in the People. The body breaths, sees, tastes, etc. in the head; & the head works, walks, and digests in the body.  
Thus the Trinity are truly The foundamentall Law & 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 flourish in itself, and to defend and maintain itself 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 Kingdom 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 it in infirmity and weakness. 'twas the true light shining in darkness; but the darkness comprehended it not: We knew not our own felicity: God was nigh to us, the Kingdom of God in all his glory was in the midst of us and we were not ware 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 Kingdom of God, and gloried in their poor shadow.  
'twas a beautiful but earthly vessel raised up for a time, a temporary greatness, a corruptible Crown: that we have seen standing and flourishing in prosperity, but its period of happiness is come: and you shall now see it in its declining, diseased, corrupt estate end falling.   

Chap. II.  
Showing the Kingdom 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 fellowship: now casts it off into rejection and reprobation. In the first, his glory shined: in this its abominable wickedness and woeful ruin appear.  
This Heavenly glory, being in love with the earthly shadow of itself, desires to approach nearer unto it, and to dwell with it, in a more entire and perfect union, and to swallow it up into itself, that it might no longer subsist out of him, but be found in him: But as God approaches, this earth fled from his brightness, being a afraid to be swallowed into its own Life: and being weak and jealous of the great love of God; chose rather to continue its old form, and its earthly happiness. The goodliness and majesty of God was clothed and hid in this worldly Kingdom; as a treasure in an earthen vessel: 'twas his pleasure to break the vessel, to rend and tear the old garment, that he might come forth and  that with his glory, that clothed him with its baseness: But the Pot-sherd did strive with his Maker, and would not yield or offer up itself to God: but doted upon itself and its own beauty: Therefore God threw it off into a dark and inordinate idolising itself: to a worldly and satanical separation from God; and love of itself: making itself the substance, and God the shadow; and so grew to an earnest minding of its present happiness, and threw off God into a strangeness and distance; not to be conversed with in this world; but referred 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 Kingdom in opposition to the divine will, are in ambition and covetousness set to advance their worldly state: here is the fatal 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 Kingdom is become Satan's, 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 failing 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 failing, and some disease and disturbance in the body, each begin to stickle for itself and its own interest, as distinct from the other.  
The King having a misgiving that his greatness did not increase, but rather sink; thirsts after more absoluteness: thinks it a debasing to his Royalty to have any in conduction with him: as good be no King as to be in dependence upon others: and so grows weary of the Parliament.  
The People finding their liberty and privilege 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 do, disdaining to be kept at a distance from Government and the affairs of States; growing impatient of the Prince's ways, censure his actions, and to have a longing itch after government.  
Drawing thus several ways, there grows of head and members two factions. The Count and Royal, and episcopal 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 Kingdom being shaken and broken fall to pieces according to the working of their several 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 Episcopal patty being Monarchical; growing out of the root of the King; and paternal much the Fathers of the Church; men of implissit Faith, whose conscience is much regulated by their superiors; men that are high and great admirers of kingliness; taken much with that Ordinance of a King. And a vast number of lose 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 well-affected People; men of industry and labour, that love freedom and to be something themselves: Men whose consciences are their own and so strict in them: Cities, Corporations, Bodies; and men that highly honour the Parliament; men zealous for general and common Good.  
And by the access of these Parties to each other, they are strengthened in their opposition of each other, and fitted for their mutual ruin.   

Chap. III.  
Showing the King's Errors.  
The Kingdom being divided into two parties, the King first carries away The Golden ball of Government; who (though taken off, and separated from his true Basis, The King of Kings) yet is assisted by a mighty Angel, by whose help he rules awhile alone; and with more good, and less evil than those that succeed: In which he appears in High and masculine virtue: 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 Sceptre; But oppressed with his own guilt, and the curse of GOD, quickly is forced to resign it to others.  
It hath been the King's plea That he is accountable for his actions to none but God; and therefore hath frequently in his Declarations appealed from man to GOD. And Divine justice hath reserved your cause to Himself, and kept your Parliament a long while from accusing you of any thing, only charging your instruments. And when they attempted to bring forth any thing against you, as they did in their Declaration upon their Votes to make no more addresses to you: They were manifestly weak and mistaken; and not being to prove any thing, they were forced presently to retract what they had done; and show they produced nothing but their own shame.  
You stand therefore before the Throne of God, and are found guilty of transgressing against that foundamental Law from which thou holdest thy Crown, The majesty of God the Father, and hast broke Covenant first, with God, secondly with thy People.  
First, Thou haft slain and killed thy Father, The Lord of glory; this is thy Parricide; That the great King lies to this day buried in thee, as in his Sepulchre. That in all thy Reign, thou hast not suffered the Majesty of God to break forth; but hast smothered and denied his light to shine through thee amongst men. Thou hast owned the title and name of the Lords Anointed, CHARLES by the Grace of God, but hast not owned the substance of that Anointing and that Grace.  
Hadst thou known and owned that fountain of Divine light and wisdom which lives in thy sacred Head and Breast, Thou wouldst have understood the meaning of that Principle, The King cannot Err; and so wouldst always walk by a certain and neverfailing rule: But thou (forsaking, yea, professing against that Spirit) hast followed the false and crooked rule of thy own carnal reason, and customs and examples of other Princes, and the dark counsel of poor petty Politicians.  
Hadst thou known that Immortal fountain of Majesty, that is in thee, thou wouldst have known the meaning of that position, The King cannot die; and would never through fear and jealousy fled from thy People and Parliament because of Tumults: Was not that a turning away that Royal face of God that is able to have allayed and stilled the raging of those waves? Had you known that Divine power that is in you, you would have met such tumults, as Christ met those that came to apprehend him; and said as he did, I am he, whom seek ye? And then you had had the same effect, They would have fallen before you. Or if you had suffered, you had laid down your Crown in dishonour, it would have been raised in honour as his.  
But to fly to a place of strength, Digbies counsel, who taught Majesty to Dig, to earth itself into by and indirect paths of darkness. there's no place of strength equal to your own Royal heart: It was to teach the Sun to hid itself in the earth for fear of clouds, or to departed from his sphere to avoid mists. Or hadst thou lived in the Anointing that is in thee, thou hadst not needed to have feared, or denied the high demands of thy subjects seeking thy prerogatives from thee, or the diminishing thy greatness by it; but mightest have freely poured forth to much honour as would have burst them if they had been corrupt and wicked in their design; or it would have assured thee that there is such a Sun of Majesty in thee, as could not be less by shining upon them; and that Majesty is not in titles, names, customs, the power of a Militia; but naturally inherent in thee, fixed and sure as God, and so inseparable from thee.  
It was meanness and poorness of spirit that did not give more fully than they could ask, and so have overcome them; or if thou hadst made them Kings, thou hadst been, as truly thy copy is, KING of KINGS; so that indeed thy Error hath been, Thou hast not been Majestical enough: or lived in the height and absoluteness of God.  
Secondly, When thou hadst broken the bond of union twixt the Eternal and thy Kingdom, by which thy Kingdom was become a Kingdom of darkness, a Worldly one; and so ruled by the god of this World, the Devil.  
Thou hast in opposition to the judge of all men contended to the uttermost to uphold and maintain that vain Idol, and false power, when the holy one hath sent out Watchers to destroy it, and hast Pertenaciously refused to give it up to be slain by God's justice: The more God shown himself against it to break it, the more didst thou persist in striving for it: And not committing it to him whose it first was, and from whom thou didst receive it, hast gone into base, carnal and filthy ways to preserve it: This is the reason that a long time thou hast run a course of weak, dark and black ways, being lead about by Satan at his pleasure.  
It was this that sent thee in secret ways to beg aid and assistance of Foreign Princes, and not of Princes only, but by thy agents hast unworthily sought to private persons for reilefe, the alms houses, called religious houses.  
Thou hast been dealing in a close and underground way with the Bloody Irish and that party; Hast wandered from thy steadiness, to all interests and parties in Scotland and England, and so been forced to most unstable and unequal shifts, denying thy actions, false saying and swaring, to various forms and shapes, to save thy Worldly Greatness from Divine justice.  
Thou in pursuance of it hast pawned thy word, engaged thy estate, thy Crown, jewels, undone thy friends; and all these things eaten up with contending against a curse doomed by God; not knowing yet, that he that saveth his Crown, shall lose it, and he that loseth it now shall save it.  
As thou hast sinned against the holy God, so against thy People, and hast failed in thy Government towards them; not answering your heavenly pattern and foundamentall Law.  
First, Thou hast not lived with thy wife, thy body, the People in the love of a Head: Thou shouldst have loved her as Christ loved his Church, and gave himself for it, to sanctify it etc. 'tis true thy spouse was unclean, proud, high in demands, striving with thee; the true way to have washed her was to have given thyself freely for her. Thy Majesty envied while detained from her; If it had been shedabroad amongst them would have healed their distempers, and pierced and overcome their hearts.  
Thou hast slighted and neglected thy body, not honoured her; and hast withheld thyself and thy favour from thy People in General, and hast narrowed thyself into a few friends, and hast heaped all thy favours upon them. Thou hast broken the Marriage knot, and hast accepted others into thy wife's bed to be sharers in thy Government. Thou hast refused thy Parliament, and hast admitted into thy bosom and heart of Government, thy Wife, a Woman a Stranger; thy minions, favourites and friends, That's thy own and her Adultery: Herein thou hast prostituted thy Royalty to every flatterer, and given the swaying of the great affairs of your Kingdom, to private and inferior persons, who have brought forth, instead of Noble and Righteous Laws, a brood of low juggling tricks, a rabble of Monopolies, Patents and such brats. True, thou hast exactly served thy personal relations, a loving Husband, a tender Father, a constant Friend; but hast been short in thy Office as a Prince; the greatness of a KING'S heart hath been shrunk up and withered into the nature of a private man: And thy private and Domestical state hath drowned thy Public and Royal.  
As thou hast been defective in love and faithfulness, so in sufficiency and ability of a Head: Thou hast not dwelled with her as a man of knoweldge. There hath been in the Nation many high and strong workings of spirit towards a greater perfection in Religion and Justice, which (though mingled with many unwholesome vaporus, and clogged with great weakness) might by an able head have been digested (the evil being purged out) into good spirits, advantageous for the further growth and increase of the body; These are spilt, and for want of wisdom to manage them, the Kingdom spilt with them.  
This Nation was of a fruitful and teeming constitution, apt to bring forth gallant and noble increase of light, knowledge, government; great improvement in virtue: which you in weakness of fear and jealousy laboured to stifle, and in a superstitious opinion of former times, confine this age to their example: And being shy, and not understanding the ways of God, have left the body to herself, or to other persons; whence ariseth this hideous and misshapen birth, in Church and Common wealth. This universal disorder and confusion, which the wisdom only of the Head, and Father of the family can, or could, prevent.  
I'll but add this one, When thou hadst provoaked thy Parliament into a distemper by thy misgovernment, and estrangeing thyself from her; then un-naturally, un-Kingly, irrationally, un-christianly, to forsake her, & betake yourself to force; an act so full of folly, revenge, so unbelieving, so unlike God as along time durst not look up, would not be confessed: This cropped the sweet flower of England's peace, broke that great vein from whence such streams of blood have flowed.  
In sum, The majesty, justice, mercy and goodness of the great God hath not been held forth in thy Government: but hid and buried in thee: their appearing visibly in thee nothing but the weakness, inconstancy, injustice, and oppression of vile man.  
Your evils have been great, and so are your Judgements: you are fallen into a deep pit of misery: the chief offender, and the chief sufferer: great now in nothing but in loss and affliction.  
You have slain the Kingly glory, or the true glory of a King; and therefore your Authority and dominion must needs die: you have laboured to save an earthly greatness against Heaven's displeasure; the only way to have it ruined: to expose it to a multitude of strokes of warth.  
You have divided yourself from your People, your Parliament, and so they become of a help, a plague to you, and are by others rend and detained from you. You Idolised your Wife and friends, and are therefore separated from them. Blasted and accursed in all your attempts. Your Kingdom is full of miseries, and you the Centre of them all, and must bear in all and for all: Become the shame of the World, by horrid confusion and distraction. Deprived of all power of dominion. Thy Revenue and dignity shared by others. The majesty of thy Government like a Potter's vessel dashed in pieces into Committees; etc. Thy Mame wounded, yea, buried under foul and black obliqne: become the scorn of Pampletters: Thy Prerogatives and the highest privileges of the Crown, banded and tossed about the Kingdom in the mouths and hands of common men.  
When thou hadst left the Lord thy stability, see what a race of misery thou hast run: When thou didst leave the Parliament, and wentest into the North; Thy Sun set, and another rose in England: From that time its a dark night with majesty; & kingliness is laid upon a sick bed, and those Nobles & gentlemen like blazing torches attending upon you: All your ways then were weak, faint, sick-snatches at a Crown, unnatural and violent, striving after a fading glory, while your Kingdom lay wallowing in its own blood: At last the Lamp wants Oil, and Majesty dies and gives up the Ghost; when you left your Regalia, your Seal▪ Crown, Council etc. at Oxford; now you indeed put of the state of a King, and in the condition of a private person, wander as a spirit in the Air, till at last found in the North Apud inferos: thrown amongst those lean hungry hags the Scots, who greedily devour this sweet morsel, a King: and in their ambitious and covetous lust's prey upon him. Forced amongst those that he had little before proclaimed traitors and enemies to his Crown and dignity, and were devils in his thoughts to him. here he is for a while tormented; mocked with the title of a King, but indeed a Captive; nipped, scourged and lashed with their rebukes; tempted to blaspheme God in his own Royaltlty: and at last valued at less than his quoin; sold for money into another hell.  
He is resigned up into other hands, Commissioners of the Parliament, where he is again to be squeesd and wracked by Propositions to give up the heart of Regal power: ground 'tween the Milsiones of both Nations: not admitted to come to his Parliament; but Holdenby; thrust into a corner while others frolic in his Dominion.  
Now hurried into another hell; snatched out of this as too honourable, and taken away by agitators and common soldiers: They must have their turn to vex this piece of misery; They that had often chased him, pursued him with death, he must be their prey, and be carried about as Army baggage: They now will have the moulding of him, and will cut out a new garnent of Royalty to cover his nakedness, But 'tis shrunk in the making, and they have disposed of the cloth to their own turns.  
Poor wretch, frighted from hence by a new and strange fiend to regality, Levellers: and after another Pilgrimage, he arrives at the Isle of Wight; where he is again Imprisoned. Labouring to please his masters, studying how to content all parties, and seeking favour and relief of all, not forbearing (being in great torment) to ask the Levellers, a drop of water to cool his tongue.  
At last the pit shuts her mouth upon him in the Parliaments Votes to make no more addresses to him; which is confirmed by the power of the Army; and so forever rejected as an abominable thing, never to be meddled with.   

Chap. V.  
Showing the Parliaments errors.  
WHen the King had involved himself in difficulties and weary of toiling, to extaicate himself, he seeks at length to lay down his head in the lap of the Parliament, and to seek help of his own Spouse to compose the disorders of his Family.  
And the Parliament appears at first, assisted by a lovely and sweet Angel, as the tender Mother of all our liberties, as the womb in whom our Civil rights lay; as Jerusalem that is from above, the Mother of us all: having the face of Jesus, a saviour from all our troubles; speaking nothing but a general and universal love, and a care of all; as a rich treasury full of all blessings that might make us happy: But that Angel leaving her, she quickly discovers her weakness and inability, and sinks into confusion under her sins, and Divine displeasure.  
Your evils are against Christ, against the King, and against the People.  
Chief against your Fundamental Law, Christ the Son of God, who is in you, and with you, and you know him not; yea, deny him, and in express words, scorn his Spirit. You some times profess for the Kingdom of Christ, but do indeed put him to open shame; burying the Wisdom, Beauty, Righteousness of Christ; and holding forth visibly nothing but an abominable heap of folly, disorder and unrighteousness: you are indeed the seat of all the fullness of Christ, the house of God where God would dwell; and so a body of Heavenly wisdom, religion, justice, goodness, and everything that is Excellent: But you have departed from this principle, yea, wholly killed it; and walk after the imaginations of your own hearts, after the customs of men; yea worse, after the will and mind of others; not following the stable rule, The Lord; you are become subject to People, City, Scots, Army, any.  
And having lost the true life and spirit of a Parliament, the presence and Majesty of God; you are become a dead Idol, standing in the power of darkness, in direct opposition to God: This poor empty name, this vanity do you with all your might maintain, zealous for your Privileges, as if all happiness lay in them; and while you labour to uphold them, you do most destroy them; selling yourselves for relief in any danger to any that can but seem to help you; making yourselves cheap and common, mercenary; and so the great betrayers of your own rights.  
In your rebellions against the holy God you have trodden in the steps of your Father the King, and in his may see your own iniquities.  
But particularly, You are guilty of hypocrisy and deceit in that great pretence of Reformation, seeing such a spirit acting in the People, to keep them sure to you; and by that to gain advantage against your adversaries: you assume this title, The Cause of God, and Reformation; without either love to it, or judgement to know how to go about it.  
'tis known you are men yourselves unreformed, men of corrupt and lose lives; and that whereupon yond insist most, you are most guilty of, Arbitrary power; every one being in dispose of his estate a Tyrant, and wracking Tenants according to his own will; which is the general sin of the Nation, every one labouring to oppress others to advance himself: And since you came together walking in a continual course of illegal and arbitrary power. You are grossly ignorant of the Heavenly Kingdom, The true Pattern out of which the Kingdom was taken and formed, and into which it must be Reformed.  
As you want judgement, so want you power, having trampled under your feet the power and Spirit of Christ, your Ordinances are all spiritless, weak and despicable.  
But having laid this Egg of Reformation, you make this use of it, When you want an Army to help you, you carry it to Scotland to be hatched there; and thence it brings forth an imperfect, earthy, crawling Cockatrice, Presbytery, which never yet did any good, but vex the Nation and help your friends to get into fat live: And because you want the help of active men here of different judgements, they sit upon the Egg, and bring forth liberty of conscience, and with it, a monstrous heap of misshapen errors and opinions; which you cannot suppress by conviction, nor dare restrain by power.  
The Church, 'tis true, was extremely corrupted, full of tyranny, darkness, worldly pride, and great disorder; But you have brought nothing to it but utter ruin and defacement: Not having that Spirit of judgement and burning, to separate twixt the precious and the vile in Episcopacy etc. you have in a blind conformity with Scotland, and to supply your own needs of their lands, untterly demolished all.  
Your errors against the King are, not following your foundamentall constitution; He a Husband, you his body; he a Father, you a Son.  
He being plunged in his government, and in necessity, he calls you together and seeks your help; which was a fair opportunity for you by fair carriage and dutifulness to regain his restranged heart: but you grow upon his necessities, and in stead of insinuating into him by love, you at first rigidly and harshly capitulate for priority and privilege; and fell into a violent and illegal forcing, the sword, the Militia, out of his hands; a strange and unnatural contest (having no other bottom but jealousy and fear of suffering) for the Wife or Son to disarm the Husband or Father. You have unkindly, unjustly requited his error: who would have Reigned without you, made you ciphers, and kept the substance of Government from you. You deal so with him, would take all power from him, and leave him to be a state ceremony, a great nothing; a gaudy thing set out with Titles, for pomp and fashion sake to be looked upon; a servant having power to do neither good nor hurt. And that which every man as a man contends for, to be Arbitrary, or to have the exercise of his will, without which we are the greatest slaves in the World; that is wholly denied him in Government. Your endeavours is to imprison the Throne; to enfeeble your Lord, and disable him from doing the Kingdom any good: such an empty weak thing, would be a heavy curse to the Nation; a dishonour and shame to you, and that which you would quickly be weary of.  
'tis most true you have Royalty in you in the second place, being bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh; the express image of his person: but to set up this above the head, or by this to thrust out the other, is falsehood, and disloyalty to your head: That any thing in you should live in distinction from, or opposition to your head and Father; 'tis to commit Adultery with your selves, or shadow of your Lord: to fashion up a notional King amongst yourselves.  
When he was departed from you, you should even to death have followed him: and not rejoiced in his absence, and shut the door upon him: all jollity, mirth and confidence in his going was unnatural: Then your civil life and glory went; and it had been your way to have lost yourselves with him; or to have sat as widow till you had recovered him.  
When there was in him a mind of returning, as at Nottingham, you should then have opened your hosomes to him: but having possession of all in your hands, you were high, peremptory, churlish and froward towards him, and so refused him,  
He hath done you wrong, and since offered you satisfaction, which you have not accepted: but require unjust and unreasonable terms: he offended in personal acts; but you insist upon hereditary satisfaction from him and his Children: He hath offended himself, and suffers for it: but you would have restitution from the Office, which is Gods, and that never offended. You have quite lost that reverence and honour that is due to him, and look not upon him as he is in the Book of God: you Lord and Head, and his Anointed: never minding God in him (though buried under a heap of dross) and so never durst put any confidence in him or in the Divine Ordinance: but looking upon him through the Glass of your own weak jealousies and fears, in which he is still presented to you, as a black▪ f●ul mischievous person: you count it the greatest safety to keep at distance from him.  
To satisfy the People and your own consciences, you promised to make him the greatest Prince in the World; and always swore and Covenanted to defend his Person, honour, etc. and since you have conquered his Armies, and gotten all into your possession there appears nothing but high neglect or him: instead of putting any honour on him; because he doth not tamely sit down under your weak and absurd frame of government, of Church and common wealth; you imprison his person and honour.  
You have greatly transgressed against the People who have entrusted you.  
You have by your folly and weakness, and unworthy managing that trust committed to you; betrayed the honour and greatness of Parliaments into scorn and contempt, and for ever (except the hand of God wonderfully appear) ruind and destroyed, the Kingdom's great interest and the People's right, a Parliament.  
You have grossly disowned the People of England, and have been led after others to save yourselves; becoming not ours, but now the Armies; then the Cities; then the Scots Parliament.  
You are cut off and disjointed from us; making use of us for no other purpose, but to bear your intolerable burdens of Excise, Taxes etc. by which yond have almost wasted us; and mind only yourselves: we receive not acts of favour, justice, Peace or honour from you: you doing nothing effectually but reward your own Members: suck and draw into yourselves, the honour, wealth and places of the Kingdom: the whole Kingdom languishing in misery; you only and some few of your creatures getting wealth: Not a Parliament; but a trade now, a great Menopoly of honour, wealth, Law, dignity, and every thing that's good in the Nation.  
You never would or durst suffer any thing for us; if you would (as by right you should) have suffered for the People, we might have been saved from ruin; but you constantly avoid it in yourselves and expose us to it: so cowardly that you dare not stand by your own Votes, Ordinances, Principles; but upon all occasions for fear disert them, justice and us.  
We charge you with weakness and inability to manage the affairs in your hands; for want of judgement and sore-sight, you have brought yourselves into a maze of confusion, and know not which way to go either backwards or forwards, and so will lose yourselves and us at last in a wilderness of woe and perplexity.  
As you waste our estates, so are you prodigal of our bloods; you never were tender enough of peace; but too forward in war. As the King was guilty of beginning; so you of upholding the plague of war: as not in seeking peace, so not in accepting of it when it was offered: especially in continuing of an Army in the Kingdom when there was no enemy to hurt; wherein you shown your distrust of God's protection; & the People's affection: your feeling the guilt of your unreasonable and unjust Government; which made you keep up force to defend your Turkish Tyranny. This being certain, public justice & righteousness requires no protection but itself in a Kingdom Had you universally distributed right to all, and established peace and righteousness you needed no force. So that as the King begun the former, you are the beginners of the second war in England, and so guilty of the blood that is shed.  
Your gross and constant breach of faith and Covenant with all; whereby the Faith of the Kingdom is become a scorn and reproach; and our expectations of good from you are continually frustrated: and for all our losses of estate and blood we are repaid with nothing but shameful confusion in Church and common wealth.   

Chap. VI  
Showing the Judgement upon the Parliament.  
NO Error can be small in a Parliament; yours have been exceeding great: and great evils must bring great Plagues: and your evils hold proportion with your sins and standing; the greatest evils that can befall such a body as you are.  
Along while you have laboured under the disease and distempers of blindnesses, malice, frightings, faction, etc. wasting by them into faintness and feebleness; and carried into many indirect and false ways: but at last comes your dissolution, when you were rend and torn a pieces by women and boys, Apprentices: forced by them to their pleasure, and so broken into two pieces, one part flying, and another part staying, and both in arms one against another; showing by open war your former inward contests: so broken as none could tell which was the Parliament: neither part (being in deed but parts) able to challenge the being of the whole Parliament: the standing piece pretends most right; but the other the best sword: this breach not healed, but smothered up: as they were broken, so composed by force: and so to this day they stand not a natural, free; but a violent forced Parliament: not bottombed upon Christ, or standing upon the Pillars of the Kings writ, the People's free choice, and their own joint consent; but as an accursed broken Idol; upheld by necessity and Armies force, and in profess enmity one against another: A body of death in the Kingdom of darkness, subsisting and acting in Satan; standing not to save the Nation; but to be a perpetual plague to themselves and others. They have the nature of hell, a civil hell, full of gross darkness; in chains of darkness; in such a thick mist they cannot tell how to take one right step, but 'tis into misery; void of true wisdom; all their actions poor petty shifts, weak devices, improper, independent, irrational things. Already miserable, undone, labouring under their own & the Nations ruin: but so encompassed with misery, that attempting to get out, they meet with greater. The destroyer hath the upper hand of them and is their master; they are in a pit of destruction, and so shut up that that which should save them is destruction to them. If they look to the King; their evil consciences (the great difference 'tween him and them) assures them if he come to have power will be revenged of them.  
If they look to the People, they are filled with indignation against them. If to the Army, that's misery enough to have the sword to be their Lord; they know they then must be their slaves; 'ttwere well they could not be; but that's dreadful too; and therefore they must continue, in the great wrath of an angry God, who hath left them, & given them up to this wretched state; blasted & accursed in every thing they take in hand: setting a stamp and mark of dispeasure upon all their undertake; every thing that come forth from them, signed with vengeance, that we may read vanity and death upon all that passes from them; and so cold and ineffectual that it's buried in neglect, as soon as 'tis brought forth. In great shame and confusion, fallen from great honour and Majesty, to be the scorn and contempt of the meanest People; utterly spoilt of all renown, and laid open to the revile of the basest. And in hideous confusion, not knowing where they are; how they come in, or which way to get out; not knowing the state of the Kingdom, or their own affairs; fallen into a vast wilderness of numberless evils, not knowing how to settle King, People, Army or any on piece in his right place.  
In perpetual distraction and division, continually gripped and pained with the rending of their own bowels being tormentors to themselves, they need not others to mischief them; if they were alone they would continually mischief themselves: they are in perfect hatred, and deadly fear one of another: and broke and shattered into such variety of factions that they can't handsomely sided; but every side hath his subdivisions; and so his own side (when he hath joined to ruin others) will ruin him.  
There is this of hell too, They are restless; perpetually agitated and tossed about from side to side, from party to party; from one thing to another: full of contradiction to themselves; drunk with the wine of the wrath of God, they reel and stagger to and fro from one thing to another: condemn a thing for Treason one while justify it another: a King and no King; Vote and un-vote; and that not in trivial, but in the weightiest things of the Kingdom, childishly and miserably uncertain.  
Thus are you, of a remedy, become a woeful disease; of Saviour's, destroyers of Church and Commonwealth. Our great fence against tyranny and oppression, become the strength of tyranny and opression. Mighty and strong in nothing but to keep misery and destruction together that it leave us not. Evil embodied; ruin formed into a state; wickedness in a Law; all folly and confusion inthroning itself; securing it felse; and sitting in the great Council of Parliament to contrive for the People new vexations.  
This is your doom, For leaving the light and wisdom of the Lord Jesus, and for exalting yourselves above him, left in wrath, cast off, and become the Kings, your own, and the people's hell.   

Chap. VII.  
Showing the sin and punishment of the people of both parties.  
HAving seen the sin & judgement of these two great earthly powers, let us descend lower and view the People of England as they are divided by these two heads King and Parliament, into two streams, Roundheads and Cavaliers.  
You are both deeply guilty of the evil of both your heads, and therefore justly fall into the same condemnation: look upon your King, and in him see your transgressions, and proportionably your sufferings from a righteous God. Look you upon your Parliament, and in them behold your wickedness, and your just afflictions: you have joined yourselves to them, or leaned upon them, and are fallen with them; or you upheld them and supported them in their wicked ways, and they are fallen with all the burden of God's wrath upon you, and so break you to pieces.  
But particularly, and besides theirs, you are guilty,  
First of the same things in a lesser way: You are tyrants and oppressors in your estates, in your families; as husband & wife, father and children; and do all live, not in the light of God and Christ, but in the darkness of Satan and this world: & if you had not a general, you would be devoured with private vexations; the same evils being broken forth upon the world in families, trades, bargains; deceits, cozenage, suits, strife, wars, jars, differences; & if the light of God appear not for your deliverance you will be utterly ruined, and the joy and comfort of these things utterly wasted; for the whole frame of things is out of course, and there is secret curses stolen into all relations and things; which much shakes and distracts, though not quite overthrows their peace.  
There is in your taking of parts, blind zeal, ignorance of God and of the Kingdom's constitution, and gross Idolising man. Every one hurrying on in his way without judgement or consideration; forgetting God and making flesh your arm; mad of your particular Idols, KING and Parliament, which now you see are empty, vain and helpless things.  
In taking sides, you are carried much by sinister and by respects, each seeking to make himself something by the war, and to advance themselves whilst they seek to advance their party; all aiming at a worldly and carnal ease, prosperity, and preferment; and while you strove to exalt yourselves, you have lost the ground and foundation of all your hopes; and every one seeking to make himself something, hath made the whole nothing; in seeking to add to what you had, you have lost the whole.  
There was also much revenge, bloody malice against your neighbours, and malignancy against each other; thirsty after the ruin of each other, and glad of oppertunities of doing mischief one against another.  
And for these wicked things are become partners in the misery of the King and Parliament; as you have their and your own sins, so you suffer their and your own plagues: Their destruction is yours, you can't but be miserable in their misery; in their divisions your very hearts are divided; The very foundations are out of course; and you are left in a state of calamity without means or hopes of recovery.  
Besides, The wrath of God is daily wasting of you, and you are wasting one another; the Nation becoming such a hell of confusion, that men are Devils one to another; maligning and hating each other to death: These ways would utterly waste you if you had ten thousand times more than you have. The fruit of all your long labours swept away from you in a moment by mischievous villains; to have your bread taken from you, and yourselves, and wives and children tirannized over by free quarterers.  
Honest industry quite discouraged, being almost use-less: most men that have estates betrayed by one side or other, plundered, sequestered. Trading (the life and subsistence of thousands) decaying, eaten up with taxes: your poor ready to famish, or to rise to pull relief from the rich men's hands by violence: the heavens and earth jarring in unseasonable weather; and summer and winter fight together, and invading each others quarters; which threatens famine upon you. Squeesd by taxes, wracked with war, the anvil indeed of misery, upon which all the strokes of vengeance fall. A woeful 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 own, or his Neighbour's Religion; in such a mist of darkness are you.   

Chap. VIII.  
Showing the wickedness of the Ministry, or Clergy and their judgement.  
THe Clergy (so called) have a great hand in the evils of these times, and require an especial discovery; But I purpose more fully hereafter to open the state of the Church, and to show 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 uniformity; And therefore, shall only at this time take notice of them briefly, and as respecting these evil distractions.  
The Clergy are deeply concerned, 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 Pressed, the Bishop, is the life, original and true pattern of all Ministry: And there is no true office that Christ doth not constitute by his own presence, nor no right dispensation of that office, if Christ himself do not administer, and be the thing administered; 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 Bishop's 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 Royal priesthood as he is exalted.  
The Presbyters being laborious, painful, zealous, earnest, affectionate; carrying an image of the Elders and Apostles of the Church.  
The Independent delighting in a more particular and entire union with his people, of greater strictness and exactness; and personal care of his flock; is more truly in the Pastors or Teacher's place: But they are all earthly and carnal, darkening the true light of Christ in their ministry; and holding forth the name of Christ, but not the power; but their own 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 Egypt and Babylon of this world, where the Lord is crucified: and stand at a distance from, and enmity to the Spirit of Christ. They profess Christ in their way; that is in enmity to him, they profess they are not with him nor he with them; glory in their shame, which is a Worldly, and a Devilish life. They are ignorant of heaven; came not from heaven; are not in heaven; neither return they to heaven: they judge not things in the light of heaven, nor know things as they are in the book 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 blind guides, and have led the blind people of this Nation into a ditch of destruction on all sides.  
Their great unlikenes to Christ appears 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 etc. and that they follow most lamely, and so far only as serves their turn; taking indeed their ministry themselves from their earthly Fathers, according to the customs and traditions of men: & therefore have no power at all but the power of their own reason, which being weakness itself, they presently run to the power of the Magistrate, and strengthen themselves with that, without 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 greatness; contending by all ways of cunning and policy to raise themselves to the highest point of preferment, in their several 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 men's consciences to fight for Religion, which is, their means, places, honours and safeguards.  
Thirdly, Christ foretell and desired his sufferings: The Baptism that he was to be baptised with. But these men never knew their own or the Kingdom's sufferings, to give or take warning: but filled with the visions of their own hearts, prophesy pleasing things in their seasons: The glory of the Church; blessed times; great and wonderful things. And if their sufferings hath been declared to them by God, they would not hear it; but as Peter, in his satanical pride: Master be it far from thee: and when they had gotten into the mount of Court and Parliament favour, than they cry, It's good to be here; abhorring the thoughts of suffering: And would be reigning upon the Throne, before they touch upon the Cross. These carnal Gospelers are in all their thoughts enemies to the Cross of Christ.  
4. Christ's Ministry was glory to God on high: on Earth Peace, etc. But these men's is glory to themselves, and to their King and their Parliament, and for want of this a sword, fighting; like Satan's 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 Kingdom a Sacrifice to their own blind zeal and carnal 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 Oil 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 several seasons the ruin of each other; denying each other subsistence, or the exercise of each others gifts: Far from the love of Christ or his People. Paul in case of greater difference than these outward forms of Government, wished himself accursed for his brethren: but you in the spirit of Satan, blaspheme and curse one another: Both upon false and alike hypocritical grounds. The Bishops pretending tending the peace of the Church, conformity, Oath, subscreption, obedience to the King's Laws. And the Presbyters, Reformation, Covenant, uniformity, and obedience to the Parliaments Ordinances: but mainly 'tis your intolerable pride, that cannot bear any to descent from you: a conscience guilty of your own weak foundation; that makes you fear that every one will supplant you: and earnest contending for self-honour, self-security; and wicked malice against your Brethren.  
They are but fellow servants, not judgess as they presume though they beat their fellows. Both servants, living at a distance from God; in the World; not upon the Throne in Heaven: and but fellows; set each to do their several works in their several ways, and that much upon equal terms: though they admire themselves, and think highly of themselves, and despise others as of no use.  
But of the two, it's most strange to see the Presbyterian, who the other day was oppressed by the Bishop for his conscience in point of Sabbath, etc. who could not long since live without the favour of the Bishop; should now thrust out those (under whom he lived) for not taking the Covenant; which is contrary to their conscience; and show less favour to them then he received from them; and do that which he condemned in others; and this upon weak and fleshly grounds; admiring his own way, which is to pray and preach longer and more than another: to be strict in repetitions on Sabbath days, and some such poor, formal things: To set up this as the power of godliness and reformation, to the ruin of another who it may be is a man of more justice, ability, and wisdom; more sobriety; more stability; more patience, and constancy in suffering. The persecution of the Bishop was wicked and abominable: but this being now acting (and the other part and almost blotted out and forgotten by their sufferings) is especially to be noted.  
Did these men live in the largeness of heavenly love that comprehends all these parties; and in the light and wisdom of God, who brings forth all these out of himself, and for his own holy purpose manages all in order. The Bishops and the Presbyters might agree, as well as Christ and the Apostles: and be so far from destroying, as they would support each other; did they know that heavenly order, that is in divine things, they might live in as sweet a fellowship, as the one throne of Christ and twenty four Thrones of the Elders or Presbyters, Rev. 4. All three might live in one Family, as elder and younger brethren; as Fathers, children and grandchildren; who while they live in Satan the accuser, and in the darkness of the World, they oppose and destroy each other.  
You are worldly; live in the World, and suffer the calamities of the World: and are partners, great sharers in the misery of the Nation: being public persons are of public concernment; these evils do lie in a large and more general way upon you: in these desolations, the Prophet that teaches lies he is the tail: The lower and base kind of judgements fall upon you; the deep scorn of the People: you are cast out by God from your honour and glory as an abominable branch, as salt wanting savour, to the Dunghill.  
What's become of the Episcopal glorious Church, his lordly Palaces, stately worship, adorned Temples, great Revenues? Made desolate torn in peecs, left to the Satire, Schrich-owle, to Zim & Gim; under what a hideous curse do they lie? What's become of the great Reformation of the other party that promised such glorious days: pure Ordinances; power of godliness? become a breach in a wall; a rotten and putrifid sore; abotch; a filthy issue: nothing appears in it but wretched disorder: their eyes sink in their heads while they look for salvation: they inwardly cut themselves as Baal's Priests, crying to God to deliver them, and find no relief but scorn; tormented with fears to be torn in pieces by the people.  
Paleness and blackness fills your faces, and horror and confusion you spirits on both sides; To see your worldly glory burning in the fire of Divine jealousy; your Idols broken to powder & cast into a Sea of confusion, your fleshly beauty eaten up with worms of rottenness and putrefaction: To see your confidences in your Idols rejected; your prophesying lies of a glorious time, by God's hand confuted; your fastings and multitude of solemn prayers cast as dung in your faces, not regarded: your zealous covenants whereby you thought to save yourselves, broken in pieces and trampled under foot; your much admired worships of Directory and Service-booke, Creeds, Confessions, Articles, of no profit; useless and helpless things, laid by the walls, scorned and despised: your Churches and People taken from you, scattered several ways: your gifts dying in you, or dying in their use, and ineffectual.  
The Church which is heaven, shining in the light and presence of God, in unity peace and order, in holiness' majesty and righteousness; through your dark and wicked government, through your weakness, worldliness, and want of Divine power and wisdom, become a cursed field overrun with thistles, briers and thorns; a wilderness full of wild beasts; a hell full of blasphemies, malice, revile, scorn, derision, railing, errors, mistakes, heresies of all sorts: the greatest pillars of truth, Trinity, Father Son and Spirit, Christ his death, etc. defaced with foul errors; so many, so various, so abundant, as it is a confused heap of folly and madness; and coming in upon you in such a torrent that they drown you; and are so high and prevalent that not a man of you dares, or can appear in any power or strength against them; but are forced to lye-down and expose the truth, your crown, if ever you had any, to be stamped in the dirt by them.   

Chap. IX.  
Showing the iniquity of the Army and its judgement.  
THE Army, though but a branch of the Kingdom, and a particular part, yet in these civil wars the power of the sword hath been great, and got the upper hand of the Civil. The Army descended from the Parliament as its Child, but the Parliament growing old and weak, and leaned so long upon the trestles of the Army that its power at last, sunk into the Army: (manifest in the Members flying to the Army in its approach to London.) The power or the King, the head, fell into the breast and shoulders, the Parliament; and thence descended into the legs, the Army; but there they make a swelling disease quickly, and show themselves to be in an unnatural course.  
The Army a company of honest and active men, fitted excellently by a strong Angel▪ for the work they were called to: under whose conduct they dispatcsht their business speedily, and honourably; walking in ways of justice, courage, industry, love, mercy, they were favoured with admirable mirable success; relieving the Kingdom from war. And while they were contented with their state, the condition of servants to the Parliament, they shined in honour and reputation (though malignd and envied) while their masters daily impaired: I hay shine in the eyes of the Nation, and were the people's hopes; yea an Idol, upon whom many had placed their confidence of a worldly deliverance.  
When the Parliament, or a party of them, in ingratitude and malice against the favours God bestowed on them, would have them disbanded, as standing in the way of some malicious design; They united, emboldened, and strengthened by their just and honest intentions, refuse; and so grew to be a body of their own, independent; and to stand upon their own bottom.  
For a while they appear in this form very fair and clear, Proposing honest and general good, fixing upon just and good things; and obtain (by the assistance of their good Angel) success against their adversaries: But alas, How short lived is thy goodness? A very morning dew that presently passes. Thou hast only the power to propose and offer good, but none to perform; or a scourge to others, a sickle to cut down the withered King & Parliament but no power to build up: when thou didst begin a new frame, thy folly, self-love, in-justice worldliness quickly appears; and thou art left and forsaken in the same pit of darkness with others.  
Thy Iniquities and Judgements are,  
First, Thou wast ignorant of the presence of the Lord of Hosts with thee, and of that extraordinary power that guided thee: thou didst talk of it, but falsely; and didst not simply and absolutely follow the LORD, and walk in his power; but didst mingled God and Baal, do things haltingly and imperfectly; in base fear, respect and stooping to men: and declining the noble, high actings of the Spirit of God, didst consult with flesh and blood, with sense and reason, worldly customs and ways; which disabled thee to bring forth any excellent or honourable thing: Thou durst not trust in GOD alone, but deceitfully turned away from him to thy own sense and reason.  
Thou wert weak and unable to manage the affairs of state in this storm in which it is; but being called to it, hast in thy insufficiency brought it to another, and worse wrack.  
Thou undertookest a work beyond thy power, and losest thyself and the Kingdom by it: When the Nation lay at thy door begging for relief, and thou hadst an opportunity to restore it, a prize in thy hand and knewest it not: But didst stifle, and by unbelief and carnal policy smother the wisdom and power of the Lord in thee, and not suffer him to come forth for the Nations salvation; but bring forth thy own foolish ways to the Nations farther ruin.  
When thou begun thy work through fear of the King's party (whom thou hadst conquered and brought to thy feet) thou didst weakly and without judgement, take up the King in his filthy curse, and as a piece of a ruind wall, to strengthen yourselves: and when you had foully promised, you as foully broke with him; and so become guilty of all his iniquity in taking him unwashed; and of his unjust sufferings in leaving of him.  
When you had broken the Parliament, trampled upon it, defiled its authority, besmeared it with your disobedience, dishonoured it, enslaved it by force; you then in hope to secure yourselves by it, in confidence in it, set up this broken Idol again in all its mass of folly and weakness injustice and oppression; without giving any satisfaction to God or man.  
You in opposition to the Spirit of the Lord, that is pulling down worldly power, set them up, patch and bodge them together in a confused and broken way; and set yourselves to heal the breaches that God makes; and so stand in the way of Divine displeasure to be consumed by it. And now employ your Army, which God set to pull down unjust and corrupt powers (in which you did prevail) to uphold and maintain those powers no whit better (in which you cannot prevail) your Army is now the girdle of strength that holds together the ungodly, and oppressing power of Parliament: or the fence, and wall to keep out the vengeance of God from coming farther in upon men; and it is so far from keeping it out, that it keeps vengeance in, or upholds them in a state of wrath.  
You, when you were lifted up, begun to please yourselves, to admire and bless the Army; to magnify yourselves as the Kingdom's Lords and conqerors; to make your Army entire; to conceive a necessity of continuing an Army, to get preferments in it; to bethink yourselves of living richly in it; of recovering your Pay and arrears: And upon these grounds to continue the Army upon the Kingdom, with taxes and freequarter; the greatest oppression that England, or any other Nation ever bore: so that now you are the last, and heaviest of the Nations burdens; that promised to save and deliver, and turn the greatest Tyrants; lose all the good you have done; set up a forcible Government; turn war into a trade, England into a Camp; perpetuate desteruction, and provoak new commotions.  
You have at last, deceived all parties; promised much, but done nothing; broken your word; frustrated all expectations of good from you: become a broken reed, which while men leaned upon, run into their hands; and so become of a remedy a great disease.  
You judgement is the same with your Mother, the Parliament; and with all Power upholding itself, and maintaining itself in enmity to God; Accursed of God: your standing is in the darkness of Satan and the World. The King in the pit; the Parliament the pit itself of confusion; and you shut the mouth of it; the Porters of this Nationall hell; to keep them in torment that are there; to conjure down those keep them in torment that are there; to conjure down those spirits that would come forth by these rise; and to set bounds to this Sea of confusion that it do not overflow: The rock against which these proud waves dash themselves in pieces; the walls to contain, and instruments to inflict evil on the People; against which they continually foam and fret: or the fetters and shakels of the Nation in prison under you: the chain in which the mad Kingdom is bound and tied: for their folly and rage you are to inflict more evil on them; and because they will not bear what is laid on them patiently, you are to lay on more; and as you lay plagues on them; so you receive some blows from them.  
And so are sunk from that great favour to be the Kingdom's hope, a saviour, to be a jailor; vexing and being vexed: able to keep men in misery, but in no way at all to deliver them.  
And to this are you tied and bound. A way of peace and quietness hath been set before you▪ & that way of peace you have not known; but being ensnared and caught in this net of trouble, you are engaged by honour, self-preservation etc. to go on in this hellish trade.  
You are in darkness and know not which way to go; having got a course of fight, you go on to fight, for you know not who, nor what: Not for the Parliament; you know if ever they have opportunity, they will remember your war against them, and make it Treason: and if you had the same opportunity you would do as much for them again as you have done; master them. So your cause is lost: and you only fight because you are an Army; because fight is your business.  
All that you did in your greatest undertaking against the Parliament and City is blasted and undone: Members restored to the House; the Tower in the same hands it was; which writes vanity upon your proceed: and shows what foolish bvilders you were, that when you had power in your hand instead of doing good too and for all, you minded nothing but your own, and your friend's advancement; having indeed not the general nature of the whole, but the affection of a party and faction. Your ways are not now paved with love and sweetness, as here to fore: but full of briers and thorns: your work hard and knotty, meeting with a fierce, bloody, enraged Enemy, sharpened and provoaked against you, by a sense of their own and the Kingdom's ruin: harsh and angry weather.  
True, you have subsistence still: but not in honour, peace, greatness; but in war, in vexation: and that increasing so fast upon you, as threatens your overthrow, or at least show you so much work to do, that you must go on butchering men as long as you live: for as fast as one party is crushed another riseth: that tells you the spirit of the Nation is against you and that oppressing power upheld by you: so that you must fall under their fury, or the Nation be consumed by you: either you must give way to their rage, which you can't; or continue to be the scourge of the Kingdom still; a wretched life: This Wolf you have by the ears in this dark and black path you walk in.  
If you think you are well because you live, because you are not come to nothing; you know, not to be an Army, or to be in the cnodition of private persons would be your mercy; but you are engaged to be in dishonour, in war, shame, tormentors and being tormented.   

Chap. X.  
Showing the state of the Levellers.  
THe Levellers are men that are justly sensible of the miscarriage of all that are gone before them, see &c their corruption, how they have swarved and declined, &c that's not heard; but in applying a remedy, they are as much mistaken as any. His excellencies is not great; assisted he is by a discerning Angel, that discovers the falsehood, injustice and wicked ways of others; and opens this truth more than any, how all power and authority ascends out of the People; or descends from the People; making in a kind them the chief: But alas, this Angel is low and weak that speaks and writes in a corner; but come forth into action he cannot; but sinks under the fall of the Kingdom, and his own mistake.  
Thy errors are these,  
Thou canst not bear the Kingdoms suffering under the hand of God, nor thy own; but in a carnal love of this worldly state, seekest to uphold it against the justice of God; and so fallest into the same evil of thy Fathers, self-love and preservation, in enmity to the LORD. To save thyself, that the overflowing scourge may not come nigh thee; thou makest a Covenant with hell, and an Agreement with death: the Agreement of the People, who are turned by the Divine justice into a hell and death.  
Thou art ignorant of that wisdom of God, that only can save the Nation; and having gathered some scraps of earthly knowledge from others, thy proud heart is lifted up, and thou conceivest highly of thyself, as if thou art able to save the Kingdom; and so presumest upon that which thou art not called unto.  
'tis true, The King is by the People; and the People are the original of power: but this is an imperfect piece; and take it alone it is very destructive. The King is of the People; so is Man by the Woman; yet the Woman must not shake off her yoke of subjection; For as the Man is by the Woman, so the Woman is of the Man, and for the Man: so the People are taken out of the King, and are for the King; as well as the KING by the People.  
KING and Parliament are, in relation to the people, as Christ to David; He is the root and offspring of David. David's Son, yet David's Root; and David in spirit calls him Lord. So is power in King or Parliament; the root and offspring of the People. The King is Son to the People, and Father too; and so in spirit is called Lord.  
While you take one part in darkness and leave the other, you confound and disorder the whole.  
In your actings (to set up a worldly power now) you are of the earth earthly: The Nation ground to powder, or dust: dust thou art, and to dust etc. the Serpent's meat. You confess no Father, acknowledge none above you; and therefore art, Terroe-filius; or filius populi; Son of the Earth; or Son of the People. The base Son of the Parliament; begotten in her Adultery; growing out of her principles: The people must not be left without a remedy to save themselves etc. Self-saviours; your cry is the People; all power is dissolved, and the people must judge. 'tis according to your wish: the people in divers parts do take the power; and above all, would mine you; their greatest indignation is against you: so you run from God to hell for help.  
'tis your portion to suffer in the common calamity, and to be as mad men, striving with your fetters as a Bull in a net, toiling yourselves: or agitators not resting quietly in the grave of public misery, waiting for a resurrection: but disturbed, agitated dust in a whirlwind of divine wrath.   

Chap. XI.  
Showing the Judgement of the City of London.  
LONDON the chief and Mother City of this Nation; hath been the place of residence of the great glory of England; the house that gives entertainment to the head the King, and body the Parliament; and these flourishing together in peace and righteousness: The Heaven wherein these dwell, and chief shine forth themselves: The habitation of these Majesties, in which they are comprehended: That is enriched by them with honour, state, greatness; and doth again supply and enrich them with plenty of , food, etc. And thou hast held up thy head high in these times, and been mightily preserved by a great Angel in thy many dangers.  
Thy evils of sin and punishment are; besides the common guilt and plagues of the Nation.  
Thou art wholly ignorant of thy heavenly original; thy true foundation upon which thou standest: The new Jerusalem that is from above. Neither hast thou shined with that blessedness and holiness; but upheld a worldly and devilish darkness, and so art become a filthy Sodom; a vile and polluted thing; living not as the Lamb's wife; but in filthiness of adultery, with the pomp and greatness 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, wisdom etc. and hast boldly pressed into the Throne of the Government of the Kingdom; and at pleasure hast interposed authoritatively beyond thy place: Common Citizens in great confidence of their ability to rule the state, busily intermeddling 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 Kingdom, and that rashly, effeminately, and without judgement; in rude, bold, violent and tumltuous ways.  
You have not in a Mother wisdom and moderation endeavoured the composing these differences, it was thy place to spread thy Arms of love to embrace both King and Parliament, to have enclosed 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 partial in thy affection and laying out thy strength.  
'tis thy property to be rich: and wanting it in a natural and just way of trade; you are many of you turned Officers, publicans, Excise men, others buying Bishops and Irish Lands: an unnatural way of Merchant adventurers; to strive to catch the ruins of the Kingdom as they fall; or to grow rich upon public miseries; this is unblessed wealth: there is a curse follows it.  
Thou sufferest deeply in the common calamity: and the spoiling and plundering in the Nation, must be put upon thy account; thou art pillaged in most parts of the Nation.  
The great and intolerable loss of King & Court to shine in thee in peace & righteousness; proena damni: the presence 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 happiness dost thou insatiably thirst, and canst not live without re-enjoyment of it.  
Thy glory and reward hath been stained; thy greatness 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 emptiness.  
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 Council, 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 threatening to tear out thy bowels; a heap of disorder and confusion, acting in all things in darkness and wrath, and so art of the nature of the Kingdom in the destroyer: and a particular hell of thyself and to thyself: mighty in malice; rich in madness; 'tis thy trade and business having little else to do, but to design mischief to torment thyself.   

Chap. XII.  
Showing the irrecoverableness of England's ruin by humane ways.  
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, Wisdom, Justice, and Goodness of God hath left thee; and the madness, wrath, injustice, and malice of Satan fills thee: Thou art broken like a Potter's vessel into shivers, into many pieces: Thou art nothing but division: head from body, limb from limb: and each party hath a piece of thee; thou art by divine justice distributed and given forth into several interests: The King hath his part. The Parliament their part. The Army another, etc. and each an essential or integral part, without which the whole cannot subsist.  
These several principles, or spirits of the Nation; are by the breath of God blown into the several 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, several 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 Kingdom: especially in the great division of King and Parliament: both must subsist. 'tis as impossible to destroy kingliness wholly, or to settle England without a King; as 'tis to overthrow the first person God the Father: if Heaven would dispense, yet the earth would not; King being as natural 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 restlessly 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 separated 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 happiness; each persuaded that they might be well if their adversaries were gone; There is a good and an evil in both; the good of each is hid from the other, and turned away the bright side, the face; and the backparts, the weakness, the foul part in view and sight of each other. The King's party say, if it were not for this Parliament and Army, the Kingdom would be happy: the Parliament and Army say, if it were not for King, and Cavaliers the Kingdom would be happy.  
Being desperately with mortal hatred enraged one against another, they hearty seek the destruction of each other; and in destroying each other, they do destroy themselves; for indeed, they are the mutual health and welfare of each other.  
The KING it he could ruin 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 only this by it, to be a confused headless heap; and put off their natural head, to put on another; to be headed by an Army, a faction: and if the King should do 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 Level 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 Kingdom 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 be 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 showed his cunning in our divisions; so perfectly and artificially are we entangled, and perplexed in distractions, as there is no escaping.  
The KING'S party divided, and some fallen in with the Scotch and Presbyterian, which they perfectly hate and yet are joined to them. Others rather choose to sit still; or have better love to the Independent interest: & there'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 look towards him: The Presbyterian joining part to the Cavaliers, and part to the Independent; and both hating those they join too: The City falling to pieces too. Thus doth God shake the Nations; jumbles their principles together; scatters them as dried bones that none knows whether to go to join.  
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 ruin those by whom he riseth, the Scots; and when he hath done that he is yet but miserable; and is worse than where he is.  
The Parliament must go through the King's party to their end by the Army; and when they have done that, they must ruin the Army and Independent, intolerable to them; and then they arrive but at confusion.  
The Army must destroy the King's party first, and then the Parliament; and at last it gains nothing but to be a wretched nothing.  
The City must ruin the King's party; or else woe be to them, and the Independent too, or else they can have no settlement; and then the Parliament and they may have leisure 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 room to fight with the Irish: so that we are involved in destruction, shut up under several locks and bolts: and to get out of one, is but to be out of a less into a greater or larger hell.  
Therefore its impossible to recover yourselves by force; you may wrestle and tug with your fates, and weary yourselves with toiling, but by all you will but sink yourselves deeper; and by your false hipocritical and unnatural 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 Union, their spirit of Love; it hath neither flesh of softness and gentleness, nor sinews of agreement. Neither doth there appear that wisdom and skill to bind up these breaches. King lost, disabled; Nobleses scattered, weak inconsiderable things; Commons distracted, hurried after their vain imaginations. Of all the sons that the kingdom 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 Kingdom in its former worldly estate: 'tis looking back to Egypt: we are in the wilderness, and must on to Canaan. It were woeful if we 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 plain, but false; each seeking to catch advantages, and in darkness and jealousy, fearful 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 vain and fruitless.  
Here lies England as Sodom, burning in the displeasure of God; in Civil bloody wars, in madness 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 war and unseasonable weather: and ALL in the loss of God's favour.  
Here is the King's curses of his people, and imprecations of judgements upon themselves and families brought forth to the life. That mad party that cry Damn me and Ram me; that drink healths to the confusion of the Parliament; 'tis done, you live to see it.  
The other side that have Covenanted the exterpation of Episcopacy root and branch; 'tis finished fully: The Parliament and the KING their root; or the Laws of the Land out of which they grew: the Nation herself, the Church, all rooted out: And all sects and schisms (Presbytery itself for one) pulled up by the roots. Your fears have brought forth, the thing you feared is upon you; The removing of the Candlestick; the loss of the Gospel: The whole Kingdom is left in Hideous darkness; And the glory of it is gone from you.  
That persecution feared by Independents is come; Satan, the destroyer is upon you, wasting, kill, imprisoning all true glory, light, righteousness, peace; And the answer of your many prayers for destruction upon the enemies of Christ; yourselves and the whole Nation, in all parts of it, are found fighters against Christ; and for it are destroyed: You have all been big with this misery; it hath been within you, declared itself in your several forms of curse; and because you loved it, it's come upon you; as a girdle about your loins: it cleaves fast to you.  
Thy Sores are opened from head to foot, and lanced to let out the filth & corruption; and if you suffer it to come forth, you will immediately find ease: He that confesseth his sins and forsaketh, findeth mercy: If you would you cannot hid them: all your reasons pleading your good intentions; the clearness of your consciences can't justify you; Here's one greater than your consciences; a sentence so Authoratative as will not be resisted.  
Neither can you by cunning or force escape out of this prison; not the stoutest of you: not your friends, Armies, multitudes; none can help you.  
King's are bound in chains of Iron, and Nobles in fetters: Such honour have all the Saints.   

Chap. XI.  
Showing the method of God in curing the Nation, (viz) First, to take our sin upon himself.  
'tIS written in your hearts, and spoken in your mouths, That none can save us but God. 'tis the happiness of the extremity of our misery, that we are passed the wisdom and strength of man; and so fall only and immediately upon the mercy and goodness of God. Cease from man: Behold your LORD: The LORD is our Judge; The LORD is our Law giver; The LORD is our KING; He will save us. He that hath opened hell and death to let you in, can and will open it to let you out. He hath the Keys, and opens, and none shuts, and shuts, and none opens. All this sin and wrath was in us in our best estate though it appeared not; 'tis good 'tis broken forth; 'tis in order to perfect health: our recovery was designed in it; and the foundation of a mighty salvation is laid in these deep miseries.  
The method of our cure must be this,  
First, to take away sin and curse; so long as they lie at the door, there is no passage for mercy to come in, or man to go out: Now the only way to do this is, to lay them upon one that can bear them; The LORD Himself: they have lain upon the Nation and sunk it, utterly destroyed it: But now we see there is one will bear England's sins, and the sin and curse of the whole world; and there we must charge them: yea, The LORD charges himself, and says, Is there any evil in the City that I have not done? Why hast thou caused us to Err from thy ways? Thou hast blinded us that we might not see; and hardened our hearts that we might not understand. 'tis thou that hast mingled a perverse spirit amongst our Princes; that hast given the Nation the wine of astonishment to drink; The cup of thy wrath, that they may Err in judgement; that they may stagger and reel, vomit up their own filth; and fall, and not rise again: And in all this thou hast been just.  
There hath been two great evils amongst us, our being divided from God, and amongst ourselves; and this the LORD hath done; especially in the great divisions of King and Parliament.  
The day dawning after this dark night of sorrow, we can say of England, GOD is in thee and none else: In these clouds is the Lord and nothing but the Lord; Here is God in the lower parts of the earth; and the earth shall disclose her blood, and no longer cover her slain. Verily, God is in this place, and we knew it not.  
Thou hast always dwelled in the Majesty and greatness of the King: It is thou that hast Reigned in him; But verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, under vanity and a lie; under a poor, sinful, unstable, weak creature; in a crawling worm: thou art there covered with corruption, falsehood, wilfulness; made sin; clothed with filthy garments: so vailed under a thick covering, that he himself knew thee not: had he known thee, he would not have denied thee, and crucified the Lord of glory: he did it ignorantly; thou didst not come forth, nor act out thyself in thy own brightness and power; but didst retire, withdraw thyself; and lie down in weakness: and so lived in sinful flesh.  
Thou wert in him, dwelling in such thick darkness; in such storms and tempests of wrath; in such a thick mist & fog of wicked men; lying down there in such a hell of a Dam me crew, that his own body did not know thee there. His People Rebelled against him and thee, when dressed in this deformed shape.  
Thou wert in him, raising up his heart into an absoluteness and greatness: 'tis thou that say dost in him, I am alone, and there is none besides me: I'll do what I will, and none shall resist it. Thou wert there most Righteously, and according to thy nature, gathering up all thy glory into thyself, keeping thyself incommunicable; minding only thyself and thy own Majesty, and rejecting all things else; refusing to stoop to any thing that is mean, or below thyself; disdaining that any should excel but thyself: magnifying thy self; and being confident of thy own sufficiency. This now we see darkly shadowing out itself in the King's Prerogatives.  
Now we see it is Thee, The LORD, that in his leaving his Parliament, leavest thy own Son; thy own spouse; because she is unclean; because she was filthy and polluted: This is righteous in God to leave a diseased body, labouring under the guilt of the Nations sin; to give her up to be tormented, to be left desolate for her iniquities.  
In the Kings flying from his Council, to strength; We now see Divine jealousy, that is impatient of having his Majesty sullied and stained by common hands. The indignation of the Lord of hosts hurried the King away in violence: and taught him to begird himself with power to uphold Royalty: yea, rather to bury it in the earth then that another should wear the Crown. It is the Lord that stiffens and hardens the spirit of the King against all Propositions that may lessen his Greatness; here God says, My glory will I not give unto another. To retain golden Royalty in the flames; to be a King still while hated, opposed, denied, Is the Divine Spirit: When it is most opposed to contend for it: This the Lord doth.  
In the King's dark and unknown ways, in his secret practices, We now see Our LORDS obscuring himself: when fleshly man would find him out to prey upon him; when wicked and rebellious man would rob him of his glory; he mists himself in the privacy of darkness; he hath a long while concealed himself in the midst of us, and so kept himself from the world (who have always been in pursuit of him) because he sees they are not fit to enjoy him: This is the Lords doing in the darkness of man; the Highest Majesty of God under the shameful vilenesses of man.  
In the Parliament Now, is manifest the Son of GOD made flesh, and dwelling amongst us: Thou art here our Lord encompassed about with infirmities; in abundance of weakness, in temptations, fears, 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 form, 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 ways, 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: 'tis 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 etc. Christ says in this dark poor form, The Father and I am one; the Father is me; the words that I speak are his; and the works that I do, He giveth me to do them. I come from the Father; Thus the Son goes forth; for a while appears amongst men, and the Father conceals himself, 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 money changers; turning out those buyers and sellers; those worldly Episcopal party, that turned religion into a trade, and worship into mere gain and preferment; prophesying anew form, a Kingdom; but at last, lost in it; saying, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought; and suffering under this accusation, that he would destroy the Templets etc. yea, the Kingdom 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 weakness, failing in his attempts; marred in his visage more than any man; so that all turn 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, etc. Setting two against three, and three against two; requiring us to leave Father and Mother, Houses and Lands for his Name: threatening to undo 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 baptism of blood.  
In the Parliaments endeavour to preserve the Kingdom, to uphold and maintain the freedom of it: we 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 etc.  
In the zeal and rage of both parties against each other, we see darkly, come forth the wrath of God against his enemies: God fight with those that fight against him: the fierceness 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 roof of sinful man. Thou that knowest no sin, art made sin: Thou livest in those fleshly forms: Thou sendest forth spirit and they are created, And then doth blow upon them and they die and whither, lose their goodness and beauty, and are tossed about as vanity, as chaff in the wind. That thou mightest destroy them, thou comest into the likeness of sinful 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 vileness and baseness 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 sins, so he suffers under them, and we suffer in and with him, and thereby is iniquity taken away: 'tis by blood that we have remission of sin.  
God dwelled in the Kingdom: The power of the King it was Gods; God was in that majesty and dominion; God was in the right and freedom of the Parliament: in the peace and happiness 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 only 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 waist England, it would never be satisfied; but feeding upon the glory of God, eating so deep into England's sides as to reach the heart of God; 'tis 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; 'tis 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 near to us, as to suffer with us and for us: our friend indeed that hath laid 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'll be thy plague, etc. and so makes death sweet to us; thou art now a lovely bed wherein our Lord and we, being unclothed of life, lie down together; death rends the vail and takes us into a naked enjoyment of GOD: because we could not live together, our earthly in Gods heavenly Kingdom; therefore must we die together; we die because we have left God, and he comes and dies with us; will not live without us; but comes into the grave to us, so that he might deliver us thence: Thou destroying Angel 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 scorn or contempt cast upon KING or Parliament, upon one side or other, is fling at Christ: and he that opprosseth poor England in her miseries, or adds one dram of sorrows more, reproacheth his maker. Yea, If thou dost mock poor King Charles, poor Parliament, poor Cavaliers, or poor Roundheads; thou reproachest God in all these: if thou dost go one foot farther, It is to make long furrows upon the back of Christ. If men or devils should be 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, greatness and justice is slain. We departing from God, who is our life, cannot live; and 'tis well we can't live in God's 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 dies into God; It returns to him from whence it came; dying with Christ; being offered up by this Priesthood; it goes with Christ; dead with him: and he says, 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 abolished, slain in the slaying the earthly creature. That which could not endure GOD, is brought down; and we are hereby brought into God.  
By death, is destroyed him that had the power of death, the Devil; his power and interest in the Nation is utterly destroyed; his kingdom of darkness and wrath is broken down: 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 Righteousness, in Mercy and Goodness.  
And as there is a Union wrought by this death betwixt God and the Kingdom, so betwixt KING and Parliament; between 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, etc. are abolished: Prerogative, kingliness is slain, lies 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 yourselves and him. Why are you jealous of him? He can't do good or hurt. Why do you labour to save yourselves from his power, or revenge; fear a dead power? Do you think he shall return 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 Crown? or the People raise Authority from the dust? How foolish and vain are the attempts of his party? Being dead on both sides in the grave; Here the wicked cease from troubling; The weary Be at rest: The prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor: The small and great are here; the servant is free from his Master. How is it, that you vex one another? It's a hell 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, Engagements? 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, righteousness and truth hath forsaken the Earth; it is in neither side: you may lie still and be at peace; for all is dead for which you contend: There doth nothing live but shame, sorrow, folly and madness; 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, died into the Kingdom: And hence it is that Parliament men, Committee men, Army, City, and Citizens are all become petty Kings: kingliness being sowed 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 Kingdom died with him; we cease to be a Kingdom, when our head ceased to rule; and are become a herd of wild Beasts. He took us all into himself, and so made a rich Sacrifice of all the glory of the Kingdom in one.  
He dies 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: he 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 greatness: by this the poorest creature in England shall have access to the Throne for mercy and justice: And the KING shall acknowledge, this is my fellow subject, my fellow prisoner. I am, and was as low, as mean as he: This shall fill punishments with grace, and make pains and judgements acceptable from a Prince that is a Brother, a fellow-sufferer: This is that which only can fit a KING for Reigning, to go by the Cross, to suffer first; by which trials and temptations he is for ever able to pity such as are tempted and do suffer.  
The Parliament is dead also; cannot, will not, outlive the KING; puts off her glory with the Kings; and sits down in the dust: dies into the King, as the King into the Parliament; goes down into his grave, follows him; and there lies wrapped 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 dies for the People; so constantly adheres to the People's rights, that She perisheth in the obtaining of them; and because She cannot by life, She doth and will by death free us. The Cause that She undertook though sensibly be lost yet by her shameful suffering is confirmed▪ and a Testimony of blood given to a work of Reformation, which is more effectual than twenty Bills: And so our Parliament doth us most right, not being able to help us, to lie down and bear our curse herself.  
She dies into the Army, gives up her Ghost into the Army's bosom; and leaves the Army Executor of her will: dies into the People, and all dying together and tumbled into one grave of confusion.  
By this death there is a perfect Remission of sin; here is a true Act of oblivion on all sides; a blotting out of transgressions: Hath the King transgressed, he lies in the dust for it; he is in your own bowels, devoured by you: if you accuse him, you accuse yourselves: look upon him now as pierced by you, and you can't think of his sins, but of your own shame with self-piercing, self-wounding hearts. Neither can the King remember the Parliaments injuries, but he must in those thoughts be oppressed; they are in him, and if he should think of revenge, he must be revenged upon himself; death wholly overcomes and spoils revenge; and leaves it nothing at all to feed upon: Or if any party do look back, they see all these mutual violences in the Divine wisdom and goodness, the sting of them being taken away, with pleasure and content; and glory in these marks, not of hatred, but love; glory in the Cross, and rejoice in your mutual sufferings together, and one for another; all bitterness and envy being slain thereby: Every one (as now in the accuser) you see your own good, and your adversaries weakness and sin, so shall you by this change of death, see all the evil as your own, and be able to bear it; every one accusing himself, and acquitting others: so that the greatest enmity will be against yourselves, or any thing that makes a division; and nothing remaining to be hated but enmity or hatred itself. There cannot a thought of strife or enmity arise now, but it must appear in blood; in the blood of Kings, Queens, Princes, Parliaments: enmity being slain, at first look you do see death in it, and so abhor to change a word with it; look upon it as a murderer, and immediately fly from it into each others bosoms.  
Here is away too to pay all debts, to cancel all obligations on both sides; in this pit of death must all be swallowed up. Debts are forgiven a dead man: Here is a death of the Old man, The old Quarrel, the old terms of enmity; the old man and his lusts: The lustings of the KING'S party after honour, greatness, preferment: the Parliament after places, Bishops Lands, etc. the Armies lustings after arrears: the lusts of envy, malice, tyranny, oppression, covetousness, desiring each others goods (the fuel of this flame in all) is buried.  
Thus, as before our remedies were our diseases, so now our diseases, our miseries become our remedy: in saving we lost, now in losing we save: Our gain was loss, and our loss is become gain through the riches of the wisdom and mercy of the Lord our GOD: Now we must say, we had perished, if we had not perished.   

Chap. XV.  
Of the complete cure of the Nation, showing it in its Raised state; and parrticularly the King.  
NOw, through the tender mercy of our God, doth the day sparing from on high, visit us; To give light to them that sit in darkness, & in the shadow of death; to guide our feet in the way of peace: The bright day of England's Redemption is come; the sweet morning of our Resurrection. A rise, let us go from this pit of misery: Let us wrap up all our grave  of shame, sin and sorrow; and leave them with their Father, the destroyer, in this dark night of hell and death.  
The Lord saith it, and in the power of the Lord, we do break open Iron gates of death, and let go these poor prisoners of hope: and before we go we will spoil the spoiler, trample Satan under foot: laugh and mock at thy power: ruin thy Kingdom of darkness; take away from thee thy power to vex, wholly destroy thy destruction; Oh thou enemy, destruction is come to a perpetual end: We smite thee upon the cheekbone, thou canst by't no more: Now we lead captivity captive; we were under thee; now thou thyself art a prisoner and a servant: thou hast not hurt us, but done us good in destroying us; thy curses are turned to blessings; to our infinite advantage: Thou thyself shall be under the burden of divine wrath; We are escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowler: your snare is broken, and we are delivered: and thou fallest into the pit thou diggest for others: by thy wounding us we are healed: thou hast bruised our heel; but we have broke thy head: thy whole design of England's ruin; and thy plots are discovered, and turned against thyself: upon thee and thy wrath as a footstool do we ascend into the blessed throne of God. We lock thee up in chains of darkness, and throw thee under the earth: get thee hence and all thy darkness with thee, that keeps Englishmen from seeing God in one another: take with thee all thy bitterness, rage, madness, oppression, tyranny, all thy lies and falsehood, thy false Oaths, and breach of Covenant; all thy disorder and confusion; thy mischievous plots, and all thy scorn and reproach; and all thy false accusing Father to Son, and Son to Father, etc. Thy railing and revile, blasphemies, with every thing that is cursed; and go headlong into the deep Sea of thy perdition: we will live in heavenly peace, love and righteousness, in the light and glory of our own God. Shake thyself from thy dust captive daughter, this cloud of dust that darkens thee, from divisions, emptiness, barrenness, vanity, instability, and ascend into the light, majesty, union and strength of God.  
England is become the Kingdom of the Lord and of his Christ; God reigns in her; she is become a holy Nation, a heavenly Kingdom: God is in her and none else: The tabernacle of God is with men: he now takes his great reign upon earth: he is come, he is come to judge the People righteously, and to govern the Nation upon Earth.  
The majesty of the Trinity dwelling before in weakness, that is sowed, died, it's raised in power; before in flesh, now in Spirit; before covered and vailed, hiding himself, now in open and naked face: We are now a new creature, a new Kingdom of righteousness; living in the immediate brightness of the face of God.  
God is with us, with all his host of power and goodness, mercy and wisdom, to establish us in peace and justice: there is nothing amongst us but God, who is exalted alone: and saith, I am and there is none besides me; and hath taken the Kingdom into himself; and every thing is what it is in the glory of God: now indeed the soil is the Lambs, he is English Earth: The people, the Lords, and shall be filled with the excellency of God in himself.  
The Lord is King; God himself reigns: God is upon his throne, and saith openly to the whole Kingdom, I am your King; you are my People; I'll rule you with a pure golden Sceptre of righteousness and peace: you shall submit to me, and receive law, honour, justice and protection from myself; you shall now see the beauty, sweetness and goodness of my government, I'll be a King to and in every one of you.  
And I'll reign over you in and by King Charles; I will take him out of the prison of Satan's darkness out of the pit of the world; from all his vileness of lusts, of oppression, covetousness, folly, fiercnesse, wrath; and from all his shame and dishonour: from his evil counsellors, wicked spirits that have seduced him to evil; into my bosom: and turn his heart as a river of water: It shall no longer be mudded with evil counsellors; nor with pride, covetousness, cruelty; but run in a pure stream of Divine justice and goodness; and so largely and plentifully, that it shall flow forth freely upon you: Righteousness shall run down your streets. A fountain of honour as well as justice, that shall give real, true (not titular) honour to his People; that shall stream forth Majesty and greatness as freely into the whole Nation, as the Sun doth beams: he shall freely communicate Royalty that it shall be every ones; and every one shall live in the view and enjoyment of it, and fully satisfied with it; it being truly his own: A King enlarged with the largeness of God that comprehends all his People as the sands on the Sea shore; and is an Ocean of goodness and righteousness to cover those sands: whose Arms of love can at Once embrace the whole Kingdom; every party and person: that carries every English man in his bosom: That impartially will communicate favour to every one according to his true worth and ability to receive it: of large wisdom, filled with the wisdom of God: of quick and piercing understanding, to execute judgement in all causes: one living in the light of GOD; shined upon with the Majesty of God, that he shall not be deceived by flatterers; but shall scatter all such mists from before the Throne; that of all places, wicked men, and wicked things shall fly from the Court and presence of the King: Of such tenderness, that he shall really bear the burdens of all his subjects; and every man's trouble shall make him restless, that cannot be fully content till he hath fully satisfied all the wants of his People: That is all mildness and gentleness to his own People as a Father; and terrible only to your adversaries: whose indignation is bend continually against the enemies of his People and his children's peace: a Lion to them, but a Lamb, a Shepherd to you: A Prince Mighty with the Mightiness 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: 'tis your happiness only that is his Crown: that knows no glory but a loyal and loving People; that is King only to make you happy; and your happiness is his Kingdom: or, health and prosperity in the People, grows up into a lively flower of glory; a King; or breathes out itself 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 shall nakedly see the face of Divine justice; and in whom the glory of God doth take pleasure to show itself; and not as another from him, but in perfect Union; in truth and righteousness: where there is nothing to separate 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 entire himself, and the King entire 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; he 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 died to▪ and the evil and corrupt part left in the grave; he is raised up in the very substance; in Union, in Spirit, in Truth; in Eternal 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 fullness 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 wisdom; thou sittest in Council 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 wisdom of heaven. The LORD is here, challenging the Kingdom to be his; here is gathered the heads of the Tribes; a congregation of the first borne; the chief and choicest Saints and Angels collected and embodied into one Son of God.  
The LORDS Christ, he saith, I am here, your flesh and blood; one of you: I'll provide and constitute wholesome Laws for you in this Parliament.  
And this Parliament taken out of all its filth and guilt; out of all its madness and disfraction, folly and confusion; out of the hands of the envious man that divides & destroys; from under cursed darkness, violence and oppression; from the People's woe and curse. I'll wash it, and cleanse it, and fill it with Majesty and goodness; make it a mountain of holiness, a City of Righteousness. Arise shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Thou shalt no longer sit in darkness: 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 righteousness is Risen in thee, with healing under his wings.  
Thou now art Divine justice; A habitation of justice: where justice itself shall delight to dwell. No unclean thing shall be found in thee: living always in the righteousness of Christ, thou shalt be separated from sinners; blameless: live in a height of righteousness above accusation: The Lord Our Righteousness.  
The Saviour of the People; thy walls shall be called salvation, and thy gates praise; sending forth saving health to the whole Nation, into every part that is pained or diseased: a universal remedy for all maladies; a skilful Physician, richly furnished with the fullness 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 exquisite sense of any burden that lies upon us: The Mother of England, as the KING is the Father, in whose womb our freedoms, rights, peace lies: from whose breasts we shall suck milk of comfort, riches, ease, quietness, justice happiness; as tender of every one of your children as of yourselves. Thou art beautified with garments of salvation, honourable, glorious: the joy of the whole earth: Adorned now with such excellency, that thou art a Queen indeed; a complete 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 Lawgiver; being one with the great Court or Council 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 natural, but a spiritual body; not a earthly, but a heavenly, The Lord from heaven: Now a holy and incorruptible body, that cannot fail. Christ is completely himself in you; you are completely in him; and completely one Lord, one man, one body; one Assembly or Congregation: having the same Nature and Person.   

Chap. XVII.  
Of the perfect Union 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 Devil 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 ways.  
In this raised estate King and Parliament are in most excellent union, joined together in nearest bonds of fellowship as Husband and Wife, as Father and Son; God and Christ: In the greatest distance of these unnatural breaches, there hath been still a secret tendency towards each other; your union was never so much slain but it acted out towards an agreement: And now there is a thirst in both after yourselves in each other, and a restlessness of spirit attends you till you meet; in that dark way in which you are, in hell, you are groping one after another; in a feeble way of Treating; and framing a net of spider's web to catch one another in; in several forms: These are too weak to hold or bind you together; you are both pitied, 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 compass him through fear and ignorance.  
I shall but draw a vail, a curtain aside, and show you both embracing each other.  
The Union betwixt King and Parliament, and by the mediation of Parliament with the People, whom they Represent, is strong and Inviolable; It is admirable and delightful: They are one in Nature and Being; and can never be divided: As Christ says 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 be 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 Union 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 appears and is brought forth. In truth, the Parliament is in the King; and acts not, moves not, but in the King; hath, not, cannot do: and the King is in the Parliament, 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 largeness of the Spirit, that delights to extend union into distinction; and there they are, and always were, more one in truth than they have yet appeared to be.  
The former union was too weak and straight, and therefore it's snapped asunder; and the LORD now shows such a union as disjunction doth confirm 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 likewise; 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 form; the Parliament hath the King in lowness and grossness of matter: yea the Parliament hath the KING in his height and spirit; but covered over, and hid under unity and lowness of the matter: so the King hath the matter in the excellency and unity of the form.  
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 business 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 till they have the King: Which shows that the union is still good; so strong that they cannot be but together in affection, though parted in place; and will not be happy till 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 awakening the strength of love to show itself in reunion; so by a temporary division comes an eternal and inseparable conjunction: as that parting of Christ from his Disciples, It is expedient that I go from you, that the Comforter may come, and he shall abide with you for ever. Thus doth the Sea of the spirits love drown all 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 original; 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; joint heirs of the same glory; filled 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 fills both your Cisterns; two streams coming from the same head; two twins lying in the same womb of the Spirit: and it is the same Spirit that lives in you both: There can be no difference between you, you have indeed but one mind, but one heart: England's peace, honour, justice and greatness, is the substance of both your lives: you have but one subsistence; but one happiness; but one breath and air, England's joy, England's good: you are not one now by outward Oaths and Covenants, but by inward Oaths and Covenants; by an everlasting Covenant that cannot be broken. The same God and Spirit speaking both, or swearing both by himself; bringing forth both perpetually in the same Oath, by himself: While he swears to save and deliver his People in England, he swears a good KING and Parliament: bringing forth himself, he brings forth you; or brings forth himself KING and Parliament. Being brought forth by God's Spirit, there will not come from such a fountain, bitter and sweet waters, no dissenting affections: and bringing forth in both nothing but himself; but one and the same justice, one and the same goodness, wisdom, love, to the People; there's no fear of disagreeing: and bringing this forth, not in a dark and misty world, where you have been subject to mistakes; but in the clear light of the Spirit; in the calmness, quietness, openness, freeness of the Spirit; there can be nothing but pleasure and mutual 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 formed and built: The King is Father, and we his children; he is the first man in the Kingdom, is before all: Adam, in whose loins we all were, and from him, and of him we are: our true Civil Father; from whom we all receive our Civil beings; in whom liberty, property, peace, order, honour, authority is first originally, and chief; 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 mind; which being gathered together are a Parliament.  
As he is ours, so we his original: Man is by the Woman: The Parliament and People in their fullness of time, when grown up into maturity, bring forth a Government, a KING; The firstborn; their vigour and strength: and so property, liberty, order, etc. are first in us; and then they arise out of us into him: And by this continual 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 meanness and carries it to the highest, to the head: being there ennobled and raised, carries its Majesty down into inferior parts again: and is the same River called by several names, in several places: as the Sea is one, only distinct by the shore it washes upon.  
This union, by the wisdom and fullness 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 fruitless) being thus varied, gives delightful fellowship and profit. Such is the fullness of this heavenly glory, that it is One, and not less 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 than he hath it in himself: and so his power is enriched and strengthened by it. and 'tis no loss to the Parliament to give it to the KING, her Husband: whilst she gives it him, he being hers, she hath it in him, in a more excellent way than she can have it in herself. And for either of these to have it alone, would be unpleasant, solitary, and burdensome: It's delightful to see it and enjoy it in another; we not so perfectly beholding ourselves, or loving ourselves, in ourselves, as in another; sight, love, and enjoyment requiring another.  
It is the content of greatness, not to be, but to propagate greatness; For the King to rule alone can't be so acceptable to him as to confer Dignity upon his own body, his Seed. It would be irksome to have his greatness included in himself; & this is the most proper way of his propagating himself, his Parliament; and so a Parliament is his own choice; his meet help, by which he is free, and without which he were bound to himself, and in himself: and so to be a King, were but to be a packhorse: and for the Woman, the Parliament to rule by assistance (being called) in the bosom and heart of her head, pleases her: should she be always in it, and necessitated to it, it would be her bondage; she would desire to resign it up to her Lord, and herself choose an easy and pleasant subjection. Thus divided it is increased, and nothing lessened but the burden; which while thus equally balanced, is no burden, 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 arm, branch and twig, that it brings forth good fruit, wealth, peace, content, honour, power, all kinds 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, greatness, as sap into the head, whereby he may bring forth fruits of Majesty, Justice, Greatness unto them: and so the burden and the fruit is divided; and both be the pleasure and profit of each other: And so, is England a tree 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 righteousness etc.  
The order and manner of this distribution is excellent; into a superior and inferior; a first and second: two without this subordination, would not be so safe, so profitable, nor so delightful: But being two, subordinate one to another, without offending each other, yea, to the advantage of each other is exceeding delightful: the King, the Father, hath all retained; People, the Son, all dispensed: in the first, its absolute and entire; in the second, it's propagated, enlarged, spread-forth: The Husband gives, the Wife receives; he hath all, and bestows it; she hath all, and receives it. The King says, ask what you will and it shall be given unto you; (so GOD says to Christ) choose what Laws and Privileges you will, I'll 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 be bound to give yet it's no loss to him, because his own Spirit asks, for we know not what to ask: So the KING is the original of ask, and gives the desire of the thing: that which moves the inferior to desire is most excellent in the superior; and in this is the fullness of the King, he shall still call, ask of ME; and shall still outgo the desires of the Petitioners, and give more than they can ask; his heart being more large towards his Spouse or Child, than his Spouse or Child can be to itself; and that mind that is in the Spouse or Child, of good to itself, is in the Father before it was in the Son, and more excellently: Neither can the Son 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 conveys good to him, and so wrong himself most, to wrong his head or fountain from whence he is supplied: Neither is it any wrong to the Son to have it this way, but 'tis the most perfect way of having it by ask it of another; for thus, there is a stock and treasure in which is store laid up that is the Son's riches; the surest and sweetest way of having, is by the easy way of ask: 'tis the excellency of it, that it's a gift, and that 'tis free; or that it hath the Royal stamp of love and Authority upon it; by which it is not a stolen and forced, but lawful and pleasant favour: 'tis a free and ingenious subordination; where the inferior hath power to choose what it will; and chooses to have it in that way, and not in another; and hath that freedom in ask that is powerful; The woman hath power over the head, to command by love; and to say as Christ, I will have it so: and then 'tis most acceptable to the Father, when it is most boldly and freely asked: it being the great joy of the head to have the wife confident in his love: And in this way there is, and shall be a river of pleasure running between King and people; or from King, and Parliament, and People; wherein they shall do nothing but please one another: The fullness of the one, completely answering the largeness 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 greatness and freedom 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 King's gift sets the price upon all favours they do enjoy; it's therefore sweet because their Lord bestows it upon them.  
This is the flourishing 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 Kingdom of both is completed, in their dwelling together in the third the Spirit: where they do continually delight in each other, in bestowing themselves upon each other, and are most happy in fellowship: so 'tis a heavenly blessedness 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 greatness: thence to derive it to the People; this is a full King in height & breadth: and a People ascending through the Lords into the bosom of the King; is a People in height and depth: the body in prosperity and pleasure: three states in one, and one in three; in perfect agreement, and in complete unity: all make up but one fullness, one Kingdom. 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 eternal majestty: This is the great and main pillar of England's happiness; the foundation of our comfort: which as its most excellent in its self, so it will effectually change the whole Kingdom into its form: all parts must follow the condition of King and Parliament; yea, all are included in it; in this our whole happiness lies: The body being thus in health it cannot but send forth nourishment into every part: not a man in England but shall presently find a reviving upon this agreement; a new spirit of love, joy, comfort, trade, and prosperity is immediately dispersed into the whole Nation: every one leaping for joy in the goodness of God, and the happiness 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 do 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, We have all like sheep gone astray; but God lays on him the iniquities of us all: We see the zeal of Christ under your blind rage one against another: Christ in you in weakness 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 Landlord is the Lord of the Earth; the Tenant 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 break forth of God and Christ, and the several enjoyments they have of each either; and passing from one to the other by and in the Spirit. Ministers and People, Townes, Corporations, Manufactures, Markets, grazing, Feeding, all but the abundant flow forth of the fullness of Christ; pleased to express itself in such forms.  
You are all one Commonwealth of God and Christ; and in you all doth Christ suffer; in that deadness, disorder, spoil, confusion that is amongst you, doth the body of Christ suffer. 'tis the blood of Christ that gives life to all these things; and in the spilling of them his blood is spilt: With him you suffer, as he with you: The glory, riches, peace and comfort of England is become a troubled Sea, yea, mare mortuum, a dead Sea. There is no life in any thing you do: no joy in your labours; no comfort in your lives; no hope of enjoying what you have: a Chaos, a great grave is England become, wherein is cast all her riches.  
But by this death, is Satan the Prince of death overcome; the author of your miseries; the destroyer of the earth; that fills you with wanes, suits quarrels; that sowed the tears of strife amongst God's husbandry: that hot fiery Serpent that provoaked thirst to drunkenness; that empty, hungry fiend that led you to gluttony; that filthy one that wrought breaches in your families; discontents in your relations; wasting in your estates; that cursed all your blessings; denies you joy, mirth, sports, recreations: Thou enemy of man art slain; and with thee darkness, blindness, mistakes, accusations, treacheries, lies, falsehoods, that vexed English men: These hateful quarrels between Round-head and Cavalier, are dead and buried; with all your transgressions one against another; and all will and power to mischief one another: That partition wall is broken down that kept you at distance from God, and from each other; that made you dark, ignorant and sinful in your way: And you are now raised in a new life; The old heaven and earth is fled away, because it was corrupt; and we have a new heaven and a new earth, wherein dwells righteousness: In all your ways, business, trade, sports, neighbourhood, dwells the God of righteousness: they are all in God, and God in them; the goodness of God flows forth in them; and all of them shall be filled with the peace, joy, and life of God: Truth stall spring out of the earth, and Righteousness look down from heaven: The Lord shall give that which is good, and our Land shall yield her increase. You are sowed in sin, in darkness; and shall rise now light and holiness: and with you truth itself: The true and living God shall spring up in every thing: The truth of God filling all your fields with corn; pastures, with grass; that which is good, God Himself: your corn shall be better than Manna, Angel's food; you shall feed continually upon the bread of life: you shall lie down quietly in the arms of God, and none shall make you afraid: God Reigns, let the earth rejoice; let all that is in it be glad: you shall have mirth, plenty, wealth, food, raiment, and GOD all in all: You shall be Governed by God in peace and righteousness; the wicked one shall be destroyed for ever.  
Our Sons shall be as plants grown up in their youth; our Daughters as corner stones, polished after the manner of a Palace; our Garners full of all manner of store; our Sheep shall bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets; our Oxen strong to labour: there shall be no breaking in of trouble; nor going out of comfort: no complaining in our streets: Happy are the People that is in such a case; yea happy is the People whose God is the Lord. This is the Great happiness, God is our God, and we his People.  
Now ye may sit under your own Vine, and under your own Figtree; which is, the love of God shadowing you, and feeding of you: Let the earth be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the Sea: there shall be none barren of the grace of God amongst you; not a dark corner of the Earth for cruelty to dwell in; but all shall be enlightened with the joy and peace of God: such a power of light and heat shall shine from the Sun of righteousness, as shall melt the churl's heart into liberality; the Landlord shall not rack you; nor the Usurer grind you; Taxes and Excise shall not oppress you: The rich shall not be a prisoner to his wealth, nor the poor for want; he that hoarded corn shall bring it forth; the buried money shall rise; trade shall revive; the hungry shall be fed; the naked clothed: all happy, but he that refuses and resists this grace, the Devil. You shall all praise the Lord, from the rising of the Sun to the going down of it: rejoice in the King, in the Parliament; all their honour, greatness, and dominion is yours; you shall have the comfort and benefit of it; and from them shall you receive floods and streams of righteousness that none shall want: the rich shall be freed from the curse in his wealth; and desire no more: the poor shall be satisfied and have enough: every one, and every thing shall be filled▪ And your rail shall be turned into songs; your fightings into dances; your fears into rejoyceing: live in love, in the face of God, as brethren; as owe family; lying in the womb of one happy Mother, England; a Paradise; the Land of Emanuel; rejoicing in the prosperity of each other: and the heavens shall bless you; the God of heaven shall shine on you: Christ, The true Heaven is open to you: Princes, Magistrates look gently upon you in love, smile on you: and these lowering, frowning clouds that have vexed you with excess of rain, shall be scattered; and these heavens shall favour you with seasonable weather; you shall have all blessings of heaven and earth.  
Thus, the People are recovered from slavery under Satan, and wicked men; into a freedom to live in the face of God: into freedom with, and union to their King, their Parliament; and amongst themselves; and so are freeborn; a Nation borne in one day; a Royal and Princely race; a blessed and happy generation; Borne of GOD, and of their KING.   

Chap. XIX.  
The restoration of the Ministry, by Christ's bearing their sin, and by his death and resurrection.  
THE Ministry hath been deeply defiled, and woefully accursed; they lie under great sins, and heavy judgements: But here is balm for them, a Physician will cure them; a fire will purify the Sons of Levi: you are the LORDS portion; GOD who said you were not my People, will say, you are the People of the living God: Idol Shepherds are you; but the GREAT Shepherd is seeking after you; and will restore you.  
The Lord is under your sins; bears your iniquities under the Luciferian pride of Episcopacy seeking to advance themselves into worldly greatness; into Prince's favour; into lordliness: it being broken in pieces, we see under it, the Kingly and Priestly Office of Christ in union: the Son exalting himself from a poor minister a Carpenter's Son, to sit upon a Throne, far above all principalities and powers: In their pomp and state of living and worshipping God in an easy, rich, and brave way, is darkly represented the glory of the Church, Zion sucking the milk of the Gentiles: having Kings and Queens nursing Fathers and nursing Mothers: and bowing to the soles of her feet: Christ in glory, under this abominable filth.  
In the Presbyterian rigid and harsh yoke of Government forcing the minds of men into a observance of their Reformation: We now see the severity of Christ and his strength and power; his heat and zeal; not contented with a cold formality; but requiring every Sacrifice to be salted with fire: a smoky and dark shadow of the baptism of the holy Ghost and fire: Christ in power, under miserable weakness.  
In the Independents uniting their Churches close into one entire body, and keeping of them under their own immediate care; and not suffering them to acknowledge any other power: we see there lies in it the pastoral care of Christ carrying his Lambs his bosom: heavenly union: Christ keeping his Spouse chaste to himself; his personal and immediate governing of them, and his absoluteness and lordliness over them: Christ absolute, and his people independent, living only in and with himself.  
In their sharp opposing one another, being intolerable one to another; is the zeal of the Lord of host seen; his jealousy that is impatient, of having his Spouse taken from him: their persecuting one another; a shadow of those storms and tempests wherewith he persecutes them that take his Spouse his People from him.  
In all these there are some particular excellencies of Christ scattered; they have gotten each a piece of the seamles coat of Christ: or else they could not be a rent or schism, but in all his visage is so marred, his form so uncomely, that he is there unknown to any, even to themselves.  
Christ bears their shame upon his own body on the tree: in their shame and repoach he is reproached: suffers deeply for being in such a filthy shape, both from themselves and others: all the honour, beauty, order, uniformity of the Church is the Lord, his face veiled and covered: and now 'tis a ruinous heap, he lies buried in it, under divisions, factions, heresies, reproach: by all this his true body is broken, pierced, slain: This is your sacrifice, O ye Priests, this blood must wash you, and make an atonement; and it is sufficient to take away your sins though as red as scarlet; and put you again into white garments; this will satisfy God's wrath, and then the rage of the Nation against you, and the wrath one against another will die; Christ's body is dead; and you are dead; you are spiritless, lifeless, a mere carcase, rotten sepulchres; That which you fear is upon you; the Witnesses are slain by the Beast coming out of the bottomless Pit: The carcases lies in the streets of the great City, scorned, trampled upon: your shame un-buried; where our Lord was crucified. Dissolved and broken amongst yourselves, from the People, and most from the Lord: your live in a miserable world, and not in Heaven, which only is true life: and with you dies the false Prophet, the deceiver; the Father of lies and all the delusions of the devil, and all insulting pride, covetousness, worldliness, malice, persecution, and vain glory: and by this fire of God upon you shall you be purified and cleansed: By death the partition wall is broken down, betwixt God and you, betwixt yourselves, and betwixt you and your People. Of two, God and man, heavenly and earthly priesthood, made one Priesthood, one new man: The vail is rend, and you are now admitted into the holiest; and of many kinds of Priests, you are one Priesthood, one tribe, one body in many members; one Christ: and you and People are one Clergy, one lot and inheritance; the people Priests with you, and you people with them; all the Lords People holy: their jealousy and enmity, your pride and loftiness being taken away.  
God will not suffer his holy one to see corruption: But will raise you up together with Christ: Levi shall never want a man to minister before him: If you can break the covenant of the day and of the night, that there should be no more day nor night in their season, then may also my Covenant be broken with David my servant, etc. and with the Levits the Priests my ministers: The night of their calamity shall be followed with a day of rejoicing: And though the Sun have set upon the Prophets, yet it stall rise again; David and Levi shall have heirs: Christ shall have Kings and Ministers; Kings prophetical or priestly, anointed with fullness of spirit for both; and Priests Regal, or royal, to govern the house of the Lord.  
Now Joshua thou great high priest, and thy fellow's men wondered at: I'll take away thy filthy garments from thee, and will  thee with change of raiment; I'll remove thy iniquity off that land in one day; and bring forth the branch. The Lord and all his twigs growing out of him: full of the Spirit of God; in the completeness and fullness of the spirit; seven eyes upon one stone; much light and understanding: The Lord himself shall be the Temple, ministers, people, gifts, & all, & we shall all worship in the house of God for ever: now are you Divines indeed; holy men, men of God, one with the holy divinity, shining in the brightness and majesty, in the wisdom and judgement of God; Anointed with holy Oil; clothed with beautiful garments of righteousness, truth and peace.  
Now raised out of the dust as the stones of Zion; as dried bones restored to life by the Spirit of the LORD: God sends a plentiful rain, showers of righteousness, whereby thou wilt confirm Levi, thine inheritance when it was weary: The Lord gives the word, Arise, and great is the company of them that published it. Though ye have lain among the pots; Kitchen Priests, that have served for the belly; Now, as the wings of a dove, covered with silver, and her set hers with yellow gold: Winged now with the Dove, the Spirits strength, in the purity and excellency of silver and gold; by heavenly and holy gifts, we shall fly aloft; and live always in the clearness and light of God; not in the baseness and foulness of the world. Christ ascended on high, and will give liberal gifts, all kinds; Bishops, Presbyters, Independents, Apostles, Evangelists, Pastors, etc. yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God may dwell amongst them: God streaming himself forth in all varieties of Offices and Officers, none in vain; all filled with grace and power.  
Now in this restored condition all one with God, indeed spiritual and heavenly, of pure gold: And one with, and amongst themselves, as Stars of several magnitude, moving in there distinct Orbs: all glorious lights, yet differing in an excellent variety one from another in glory; and all pleasant and useful one to another: And in union with the State, or Kingdom: You were divided, you kept them from meddling with Spiritual things; and they in requital and revenge, excluded you from Civil things; you both in your dark and worldly state, made laws against each other: The heavenly, or spiritual men, must not meddle with earthly affairs; they defile them; nor earthly men act in heavenly or spiritual. Thus were you cruel, and unkind to yourselves and to each other; one setting up an Heaven without an earth, the other an earth without a heaven. These in the Lord are married together in perfect union; the same Lord being by the same spirit King and Priest, and administering his Church and Kingdom together: they are joined in the King, and must run down in fellowship together into the lower parts: Now truth springs out of the earth: You shall have God and Christ in the truth of the Spirit, springing up in all your civil affairs; in all your Laws, Statutes, customs, nothing else but heavenly truth: and all your business, civil and natural shall be holy to the Lord; blessed Ordinances of Heaven: you shall be in all of them in the light of God, and minister in God's presence: Upon the horse bridles, upon the pots, upon all things written holiness to the Lord: And righteousness shall look down from Heaven: Heaven shall shine forth to you righteous laws: You shall see the same things done in Heaven, that are done in the earth: looking in each others face and answering one another: here in THIS world earth will be no burden to Heaven, being new; and Heaven no trouble to earth, no stranger, when she shows her face and looks out she is the same thing: and both joining together, salvation springs forth of them: the Earth by her fellowship with Heaven brings forth good fruit: peace, righteousness and justice for the Land: and the Earth without Heaven, brings forth nothing, but cold, dead Laws: and Heaven without Earth but airy fancies: both in conjunction make a complete happiness.  
Now shall we meet together all Sorts in a general assembly, in the light of Heaven, as golden candlesticks; The holy one walks in the midst of us, emptying the golden Oil, by golden pipes from his golden self, into his golden vessels, his ministers: And in this holy assembly, sitting in the light of God, all things shall be manifest to us; we shall see the whole form of the house of God; all the doors, windows and pillars of it; nothing of its statutes and ordinances shall be hid from us: no error shall go undiscovered, unrefuted; all that have gone astray shall be brought back; the ignorant shall be instructed; the opposing and dissenting convinced; and the obstinate rejected, and cast out: such a harmony and consent of hearts and minds in this love and light, must needs bring forth blessed fruit: What ever is true in any religion, we shall own; what is false, we shall judge: The darkness of Popery shall fall before our light; we shall undermine the Kingdom of darkness, and set up truth in that beauty and majesty as shall gain all hearts; upon such firm pillars as none can move her.  
We fear not Papists, nor all their strength; we shall need no Laws against them, but The Law of the Spirit of life; which we know will overcome them: The Gates of our Heavenly Jerusalem shall be open night and day; let who will come in or go out: No Unclean thing shall enter into us; But all the KINGS of the Earth; all the wisdom, state, pomp and glory of Rome; and all the World, must bring their glory to this City, this New Jerusalem: And all the Nations upon Earth that shall be saved, shall walk in the light of it.   

Chap. XX.  
Of the restoration of the Army, Levellers, and City of London.  
THE Army is but a particular part, and that temporary, and occasional; and is by this bright shining of the Sun of Righteousness, meltted into a general peace and unity, but lying under a particular condemnation, it shall receive a particular discharge. And we know thy employment is so irksome and unpleasant to thee, To be the kingdom's Gaoler, to keep war in, and peace out; or to stand in the way to the Tree of life, with a flaming sword; to keep men from the enjoyment of their liberty, KING, peace; though thou art commanded to it by God (these things being yet forbidden the people) yet thou wilt be glad to be released from it; that thou and all other may come into the Paradise of God, and feed together upon the fruit of Divine peace and love.  
There is, under thy assuming power over the Kingdom, King, and Parliament, and all; and in thy maintaining thy Military power above, and against the Civil; in thy seeking thy own subsisting, and attempting to be the Kingdom's Lord and restorer: The Lord clothing himself with zeal, as with a garment, encompassing himself about with flames of fire: A Man of War, a Lord of Hosts▪ Casting away his Fatherly Government, because of the Nations rebellion in all parts against himself, and ruling us with a Rod of Iron. God marching before us, out of Egypt's slavery, into a Wilderness; turning us from a Civil Government into a Wilderness; and encamping in the midst of us; and administering Laws to us; as at sinai: in thundering and lightning, clouds and darknensse; so terrible, that makes all tremble: A yoke that neither we, nor our Fathers are able to bear: And so we see God's severity, under man's iniquities: And because it is the Lords Rod, we kiss the Rod, and love you for it.  
Death is proper for this administration: The Lord, our Husband, the Law dies; we were bound to honour you so long as you lived in the power and goodness of God; The whole Kingdom bowed before you; while you led us safely through the Wilderness: But Moses cannot bring us into Canaan; but must only have a view of it, and die at mount Nebo: This power is weak through the flesh, and cannot do it; if you contend now to effect any thing, it is but the Devil striving for the body of Moses; you are labouring to set up an honourable carcase; or to call back life into a dead body: Christ did come into it, and hath offered it up in his own body, and nailed this power fast to the Tree; you are dead, fixed to the tree of shame, by the curse with your Lord; and by death you shall over come more than ever you overcame by life; submitting to death, your wills, reasons, lusts; your seeking a worldly Kingdom; your desire of lording it over others by force of arms, with all your projects, are slain; and all enmity in you against others, and others against you.  
Death hath disbanded you; eased you of your hellish and wrathful employment: Reconciled you to all, and all to you; brought you from being Turkish Janissaries, to be English men: You are dissolved into a body of love; into GOD: you lie down in the Eternal.  
By this your arrears are paid; you are nothing, you are dead, and you can require nothing; you, and your demands are fallen to the ground; your service is dead, and nothing is due to it, but to be buried, and all your miscarriages, in forgetfulness. Who do you require arrears of? The Kingdom is dead; the sword reigns, and therefore the Kingdom is free: if you will be paid, take blood, want, spoil, confusion, ruin; that's all that is left of the Kingdom; pay yourselves of that. Do you expect it of the Parliament? That is dead too. Poor Parliament, you have eat it up yourselves in greediness of pay, you tore her bowels out; and you can have no more.  
But all anger is past, there remains nothing but love: you are dead, and live with Christ: come forth of your graves; stand up in the resurrection of Christ, in union and fellowship with Christ. The Lord's host; now the Lord is in you; and you pitch your tents about the Lord; and are the arm of God, stretched out for his own defence, and for the punishing of transgressors; living in the strength and Spirit of the Lord: and now, mighty and powerful to execute Divine pleasure: Now you are under the Captain of our salvation; and at once interested in the salvation of the Nation; and of Christ, our Saviour.  
Now we can pay you arrears: you never stuck upon arrears till you sunk into the earth, into poor earthly minds; rise you again into spirit, you will count it your honour to help England freely: Money and a Saviour, cannot subsist together. That Spirit of Christ that once acted in you to let go the prisoners, England's freedom and justice, without price or reward; that spirit shall revive in you: and then you will scorn to be mercenary.  
I know you disdain to keep England's wounds open to suck her blood: you have hazarded your lives for justice and freedom, and can't now insist upon pay: you are worthy yourselves, and have the worth of all with you: if you desire pay enter with us into Camnaan and you shall have Vineyards that you planted not; wells that you diged not: A land flowing with milk and honey; such mercies and blessings as you could not expect: The Lord is Judge, he will audite your accounts, and pay all that he owes you: Religion flourishing in the purity of it; peace and righteousness as Rivers and Seas; the sweet, holy unmolested enjoyment, of your own families and estates, in the presence & under the government of the most high: You shall now subsist in our bowels, be dissolved into the Church and Kingdom, which is the beloved of Christ; Terrible as an Army with banners: terrible to the world and the God of the world; to the prince of darkness: and so we shall disband you into spirit and power; the whole Nation shall be Soldiers able to draw the sword of the Spirit against all foreign power; amongst ourselves wars shall cease from the earth: you must beat your swords into plowshares, and spiers into pruming hooks: to your honest trades again; there will need no Iron or steely wrath, but to blow up your own hearts, and to cut down enemies within your own breasts. all our Towns and Cities are garisoned with a heavenly host, and we have salvation for our walls and bulwarks; we shall lie down in peace and none make in afraid: while we need force we shall use you, but not in civil wars; you must be removed, and only employed in service against strangers: if you delight to sit down by the still streams of England's peace, and feed in our green pastures of eternal love, you shall: if your valour makes you desirous of military actions, we shall find enemies abroad to employ your swords against: and when you under take such expeditions the Lord shall go with you: you shall have Angels spirits that shall make you invincible where ever you go.  
The Levellers grew out of the Army, and are again shrunk into the Army, and therefore we will now join you to the Army, being mingled together. In your endeavour to impose your Democracy, your popular Government upon the Kingdom; over-throwing and overturning all powers into the People: we hear the voice of one crying in the Wilderness (England is become a Wilderness) all flesh grass (all power is corrupt) the Spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it and its withered: This is John Baptist that exalts the valies and brings down the hills: he brings all into the waters the People; God is in these Levellers casting the Mountains into the depths of the Seas, plunging all into a confused People; not suffering one stone to lie upon another.  
Thy place is to be in the Wilderness, and not to come into the City: to expire and die speedily, to decrease, that he that comes after may increase: Thou art beheaded, thy devices are fallen to the ground: a mushroom, thou wert little, and art nothing. What went you out to see? A reed shaken with the wined: growing out of the mire of the Nation: or a man clothed with soft raiment? People got into King's houses. In this state thou art vanished, lost, and raised in the Spirit of Christ, the divine and eternal love of God: and in this Kingdom there is a perfect Level: The People the original of the Parliament and King, by a free giving up themselves and and their estates to the Parliament and King, are in the King and Parliament, and fully partake of the royalty and power of both, and are levelled with it: The People give honour and glory to the King, and so higher than he, or he their Subject: He that gives is greater than he that receives: here all the people are one with that spirit that is kingly that Anointing that makes Christ King: and so called mine Anointed living all in the liberty of that spirit that makes Kings: and are most perfectly content in the King's greatness, being that which themselves constitute: making it themselves, they live in it and enjoy it: And the King is leveled to the people by his sufferings or humiliations, and by his love taking in every Subject to himself: humbling of himself, to be but the Kingdom's Servant, and wearing his Crown only for the happiness and good of the people, living together, and brought into one body, head, and member. The eternal love is the Leveller, Divine Charity that lifts not up itself, but is lifted up; and being lifted up, draws all after it.  
I rejoice in the healing thy breaches, oh London, thou honourable City: Thy iniquities have been great, there is a righteous one under them that will carry them without the City as a escape Goat into the wilderness: we see the Lord in thee in thy greatest filth; in thy violent enforcing powers above thee to thy own mind, in constraining the Parliament to thy will, by bold petitions urged with tumults: we see darkened and shadowed the intercession of the Son of God, who with violence wrists from his Father favour for himself and his people: he comes with boldness to take what he asks, and says, 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 pouring forth thyself for her: We see the excessive love of Christ to his Church, who is ravished with love, and for her forgets all things else: In thy engrossing the riches of the Kingdom 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 gone, thy true life; the beautiful 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 ways; quite restless; an unquiet Sea, in continual agitation. The Lord dies in thee; the LORDS delight; thou wert his Spouse: thy glory and greatness, it was the LORDS; he suffers in thy suffering, and is covered in thy ashes; lies under the burden 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 darkness. But his fire purifies thee; in these flames thou losest thy filthy pride, covetousness, malice, revenge, etc.  
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 etc. 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 displays his glory in the midst of thee: The new Jerusalem indeed, in truth, in Spirit, in perfect union with GOD; a heaven, and so in union amongst yourselves; Peace within thy walls, and plenteousness in thy palaces: a City at unity in itself; there shall not be the least found of discord in thee: Thy nature is love, light and holiness; The City of the great King: made happy by the presence of the King, and all the state and honour of the Kingdom: Now open thy arms of Divine love, and take into thy embraces 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 shall 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 Princely powers, may enter in: And all the riches of the World shall flow into thee in thy trade, naturally, and abundantly: the wealth of both Indies, and all parts, shall seek unto thee, and offer up itself to satisfy thee: thou shalt be crowned with blessings; all contents and pleasures shall continually run down thy streets; and all in the sight and face of the holy God; in the pure River of life.   

Chap. XXI.  
Of the admirable fullness and completeness 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 England's 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 business, 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; 'tis 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 lightning shining from East to West: so is thy Kingdom; and thy glory is now due to thee, that thou shouldest appear not in weakness to serve men, but in thy great Majesty, in thy highest honour thou must now show forth plainly thyself in thy utmost & most enlarged goodness, 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 thyself 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, freedom in the People, all this in the Parliament, all the same in the King, all night and all lowness: Thou art all wisdom, Authority, Government in Bishops; all care, zeal, labour in Presbyters; all love, union, absoluteness in Independents: and all these in every one; thou art the same in all, ALL IN ALL: All in darkness all in light, all in weakness, all in strength: all that every part is, all the whole is, all the whole in every part: and all Heaven, all Glory, all peace▪ all quietness, all love, all goodness in all these parts and whole: Less than this general and near union and marriage will not satisfy thee; being thyself satisfied, thou dost satisfy all; and being pleased, thou pleasest all: thy content, contents every one, because thou art all: art content itself in all.  
Thou hast shaken all Nations, and the desire of all Nations is come: We have been shaken into pieces, and every piece shaken out of all order and peace. Thou art good that thou dost but shake only; rents, that thou mayest make way for thyself 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 we 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 Kingdom: GOD the root in our desires grown up into the fruit, attainment.  
The interest of this whole Kingdom, in this restoration, is satisfied; and that consists in; First, PEACE; a sure Peace; a well grounded Peace: here you have the richest jewel of peace that heaven hath; 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, reconciled to God; we dwell together in the same house; he hath married us: one in God; one as God; one amongst ourselves, 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 righteousness, love and peace.  
Secondly, The Nation desires SETTLEMENT, after her shake, 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 clear, and bright; and the Kingdom settled upon them: Now the world is established in eternity, so that it cannot be moved.  
Thirdly, The HONOUR 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 Royal Nation; filled with Princely spirits: the Kingdom itself raised from the grave of lusts, luxury, covetousness, oppression, baseness and beastliness, into the nobleness and wisdom of the Spirit of God: England first brought forth into that excellent and perfect righteousness, liberty and justice that shall be a copy to other Nations; a Mother, that shall bring forth salvation to all the earth.  
Fourthly, The SETTLING OF RELIGION; of the true Orthodox, ancient Protestant Religion; and the rooting out sects, heresies, popery: This doth it completely and fully. We now shall have sound doctrine, measured by the scriptures of truth; the golden line of truth itself: truth derived from the bowels of eternity: and constantly preserved and kept in the worst ages, free from defilement; giving testimony of itself successively, in the darkest times; and now breaking forth in undeniable, and indisputable authority and evidence: Not pieces, but a whole body of Divinity; divinity itself; not in shadow, but the body of it; not maimed, but entire 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 fall and rise, descendings and ascendings, fully and plainly brought forth. The Sun shall shine so clearly, as shall dissipate these mists of error that are amongst us; with such power as shall compose the madness and disorder of people's judgements, into a beautiful Uniformity; by power of the Spirit of God, and in satisfaction to every mind.  
Fiftly, Another Public 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, goodness, and gentleness in both; both to command and obey, shall be sweet and delightful: no Laws but the perfect Law of liberty, which the subject shall 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 ones 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 enjoy; 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 themselves and their own wealth: That's true wealth, Common wealth.  
And the People free, living in the bosom of the KING; in his authority and greatness: they have a true right to it, as they have anything; the Court is their Father's house; the Throne their own home; where every subject dwells, and lives in the King's honour and presence.  
Sixtly, In this we have A RIGHT UNDERSTANDING between King and Parliament: The wisdom of God to show us a way of peace; the true light shining from heaven upon us: the night of our mistakes is past; The prince of darkness is thrown down; & we are translated out of a kingdom of darkness, into the Kingdom of God; in which we shall always have the true wisdom 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 fullness of pleasure and satisfaction as will not admits a thought of revenge; if we shall remember past things, it will be with joy and thanks to each other; for in ●●rting, we have saved one another: wherein we have done evil 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.  
HAPPINESS itself; England now hath a confluence of the riches of Heaven and Earth in one blessedness: 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; we hate none but him: and by this RISING, we free ourselves from him.  
As this satisfies the public, 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 joint, or common subsistence: every part made clean and right, and so inter-weaved into one entire garment; which is the excellency of Divine works, they are large & save all; that's a humane and devilish design, that saves one by the ruin of another; but that is God's 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 sworn and prayed) advanced into honour and greatness; freed from prison from chains of darkness 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 blackness and foulness, to splendour and brightness, 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 Immortal KING Reigning in man, and over men: Sir, this is your true interest; 'tis your life and soul; I know 'tis your heart, though yet lying hid: 'tis the Key will unlock your spirit, and bring it out into the light and liberty of God; unlock your understanding, after seven times have passed over you, you shall return to your Throne, and true Majesty shall be given to you; and your Nobles and Kingdoms shall honour you; all shall freely bow to you; and you shall command and Reign again, to the terror of your adversaries, and joy of your friends: now the prison doors stand open to you, and you shall return to your Royal Parliament and City after seven year's banishment.  
We have now a King in whom we can confide▪ as in God; now the LORD lives in him 'tis impiety and wickedness to have a thought of distrust concerning him; the sure justice and righteousness of God inhabits in the Throne, as its proper place.  
We have a King according to our own hearts; he lives in our hearts; arises out of our hearts; and our hearts give him his dominion: he 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 wisdom of the whole in him; of the largest understanding, and therefore King because he doth in true worth excel any in the Nation, and is of all men fittest to reign: fitted by his great suffering, and God's fullness 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 herself the King's Consort, and she being the same with it, concurring together in several ways to help, and honour the King: if she should attempt any thing against it, it would be against the King and herself.  
The Parliament administering 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 administering in the domestical affairs of the King about his Person, that the king may enjoy his Parliament and people in greatest content and freedom: The Parliament in business of State, a Queen lying in the bosom of the king; and the Queen in private and personal affairs a Parliament: and so Parliament and Queen interested, joined in one interest; And for her religion we are now so far from being afraid of it, that we rejoice in it, and in her great interest in the Papacy: For as the Papists had by her designs upon us: so now (the stream being turned) we shall by her design upon them, and over-runne the whole Papacy with light and truth, she shall be the door by which we shall enter into all the riches and honours of the Papacy, and without injury to them, we shall spoil them of all their glory, or rather bring a glorious fire amongst them, that shall outshine theirs; and burn up theirs into itself.  
The PRINCE his Interest is here satisfied, he is indeed one with the Parliament; they & he are brethren descended both from the loins of the king, and are one in various forms: each being the glory of the king, & the staff 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 offspring, and flourishing in the vigour and youthfulness 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, sunk 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 lordliness 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 wisdom, holiness, justice and goodness, 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 breast of the Nation, next the head.  
The King's party are here fully satisfied: to see their King restored to the honour and greatness of his Ancestors, his Progenitors: which is into the glory of God the great king, the King's true Father: They that contend for KNOWN LAW, 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 brightness and life of God: And now we shall see the whole body of the English Laws interpreted and opened to us by the wisdom 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, Music, all Heavenly and Earthly together, such as may allure and please the minds of men, and there shall be nothing harsh or rude in it: yea, rudeness itself shall have its comeliness. You shall have your sports, pleasures, we will sing together in the height of Zion: young men & maids dance together without offence or iniquity, all in the innocency, holiness 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 delightful: you shall have your Holidays: yea, your whole life shall be spent in holidays, a continual rest, the great Jubilee.  
You the more civil and solid of that party, that sink into a retired condition in these tempestuous times, that lie quietly and patiently in your graves of your own and the Kingdoms 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 SWEAR: Now the Lord lives in truth, righteousness, and judgement, and know him present with you; swear by the eternal 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 damn him and ram him in, that he shall no more come forth to trouble you: you shall eat and drink freely, and forget yourselves and your sorrow, and in it be filled with the Spirit of the Lord: be raised into high mirth and jollity, drink so freely of this new wine of the kingdom, 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 KING'S HEALTH his saving health, his union with God, God with him, drink of this health freely: and the whole Kingdom 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 PRIVILEGES: 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: freedom to enter into his heart and bosom, to lie there continually: The king shall greatly desire thy beauty: Thou now hast POWER as well as liberty, to make Righteous Laws in perfect Righteousness that shall stand for ever: such a King and such a Parliament as we have long begged, to agree together in just things: and in both we shall reap the fruit of our prayers; which though they were sowed in weakness, 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, etc. rooted out and the root of it, Satan; a thorough and perfect REFORMATION. God once form the Kingdom after himself in his own likeness, in which it corrupted, he hath taken down the old form, and sets up a new; reforms us in State and Church: now we shall have doctrine and discipline, according to the WORD OF GOD; the true and eternal Word; the Word itself brought forth: and according to the example of the BEST REFORMED CHURCH, The general assembly in heaven etc. We have the KING in honour; the KINGDOMS, heavenly and earthly UNITED; and a strong bond that will bind these three, and all the Kingdoms of the earth in one life, law and peace. By this THE POWER OF GODLINESS is set up; Godliness, likeness of God; in Spirit, in Power; or God himself: all things else being but a form. We have here PROPRIETY, God, our own God; we restored to him, and he to us; his own Vineyard: Every one shall enjoy what he hath in peace; and covetousness, the root of oppression destroyed: every one shall have enough; every one shall be satisfied; have so much as he hath ability to bear: and others shall freely part with that which hath been burdensome to themselves; none have more than 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 mind to his condition, and a condition to his mind; every one by Divine wisdom so disposed as he shall rest in it, and not move after others; there being no discontent but in hell, which is in perpetual motion after every thing and attains to nothing.  
THE LORD SHALL BE ONE, AND HIS NAME ONE in both Kingdoms: There is now but one LORD; all gathered into Christ; he 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 Kingdoms, 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 righteousness of the Lord amongst us.  
This is that which we have desired, and attempted, to set up THE KINGDOM 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 happiness, our King especially with honour, glory, safety, ease of heart, clearness of understanding, a sweet enjoyment of his Queen and Children: the Parliament, LORDS and COMMONS, with perfect agreement, majesty, goodness, love of the King and people's 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 England's desire, and England's joy; him we sought for, him we find. God gives us all that we desired, and more than we could ask or think of, and that too in a more excellent way than we could imagine. 'tis the Lord's doing, and 'tis marvellous in our eyes: 'tis the day of the Lord, we will rejoice and be glad in it. 'tis thyself O God, England's life and soul; and England is thy delight, thy firstborn of all the Nations of the earth: 'tis thyself, out saviour and salvation: 'tis thy justice hath took vengeance upon our inventions, and saved in that vengeance: 'tis thy power triumphing in our weakness; thy mercy rejoices in our deliverance; thy wisdom shines forth: that brings light out of darkness; turns mourning into rejoicing; makes our Tragedy end in a Comedy: a seasonable deliverance, now when all miseries and destructions are met together in our bowels, a clear Sun to break forth of a sudden, out of such blackensse of darkness as covered us.  
Thou hast carried us through death to life; yea, through thy own death to thy own life: 'tis by blood we are saved, by the blood of Christ. Thou hast done all things well, thy works are all excellent and perfect.  
Let the People praise thee, O God; yea let all the People praise THEE.  
FINIS.   

Postscript.  
THese are the Leaves of the tree of Life; that will give a new life to this Nation; and will heal all her deadly maladies: but the leaves, not the fruit; yet effectual: It's written here weakly, it shall be mighty in operation: imperfectly expressed now, but fully, and accurately, will it write forth itself in action. 'tis death to resist them; The rebellious do dwell in a dry land, in hell: Particular persons may be confounded, the Nation is the Lords and shall be recovered; he that opposeth, all the evils of the Kingdom shall gather into his heart; and he shall be the common shore into which the Nation shall empty forth all her plagues; wrath and destruction leave the Kingdom, 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 indeed the life of all; you shall speedily enjoy it: all the glory and happiness 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 piece 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, business, recreation, and all; with the Righteousness and Light of Heaven; and the Face of God.   

Errata.  
Page 2. line 21. for were read wear. 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 themselves 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. Showing the happy and flourishing condition in which the kingdom of England once stood, and the ground of it. pag. 1.  
CHAP. II. Showing the kingdom of England in its corrupt and declining estate. pag. 6.  
CHAP. III. Showing the king's errors. pag. 10  
CHAP. V. Showing the Parliaments errors. pag. 18  
CHAP. VI Showing the judgement upon the Parliament. pag. 26  
CHAP. VII. Showing the sin and punishment of the People of both parties. pag. 29  
CHAP. VIII. Showing the wickedness of the Ministry, or Clergy, and their judgement. pag. 32  
CHAP. IX. Showing the iniquity of the Army, and its judgement. pag. 39  
CHAP. X. Showing the state of the Levellers. pag. 45  
CHAP. XI. Showing the judgement of the City of London. pag. 47  
CHAP. XII. Showing the irrecoverableness of England's ruin by humane ways. pag. 50  
CHAP. XIII. Showing the method of God in curing the Nation. (viz.) first, to take our sin 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 complete cure of the Nation, showing 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 Ministry, by Christ's 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 fullness of this restoration, satisfying all Interests.   
FINIS.