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<HEAD>A Word to both Hou&s;es of <HI>PARLIAMENT.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THERE is a very great <HI>Malignity</HI> (con&s;idering which, &s;ee <HI>Rom.</HI> 1.29. for it ari&s;es from all <HI>&V;nrighteou&s;ne&s;s, Covetou&s;ne&s;s, Maliciou&s;ne&s;s, Envy, Murder, Debate, Deceit,</HI> there men|tioned) when people will not Obey God, and they refu&s;e to come into the way of his Commandments. And this is &s;o much the more provoking, and worthy of &s;orer Puni&s;h|ment, by much the longer and more continued it is. So that, Let none hence think that we recede or go a&s;ide from what we have received of God, nor do we hereby make that part of his Word (which is committed to our Mini&s;tration) low and precarious, Nor yet do <HI>We u&s;e it as an artifice or trick to get them off &s;ooner from their Rebellion,</HI> when we make that Propo&s;al and Overture of a <HI>General Act of Oblivion and Indemnity</HI> to all the Workers of Iniquity (See my Books Entituled, <HI>Things Plain and Weighty,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>The My&s;tery of Iniquity &s;omewhat laid open,</HI> &amp;c.) That they &s;hall be every one forgiven for whatever They have done as to Man's Puni&s;hment. Which offer they think that we therefore make, becau&s;e we have not Power or Numbers to &s;ubdue them. But this is to &s;uppo&s;e and talk after the manner of Men; for <HI>&s;trong is the Lord God Almighty who will Judge them.</HI> Neverthele&s;s be|cau&s;e Sentence again&s;t an evil Work is not executed &s;peedily, therefore the Hearts of the Sons of Men are fully &s;et in them to do evil, and they do in the mean while take up Proud <HI>Pharaohs</HI> Method and Re&s;olu|tion, as to lay more Burden and Oppre&s;&s;ion on the true I&s;raelites (that they may Suffer if they will not &s;in, and ca&s;t in their Lot among us) and they think or &s;ay, <HI>Let us not regard vain words,</HI> Exod. 5.9. But they are not <HI>vain Words;</HI> for though the Kingdom of God is <HI>in Word,</HI> and is called the <HI>Weakne&s;s of God,</HI> 1 Cor. 1.25. It is al&s;o <HI>in Power</HI> and in the <HI>Holy Gho&s;t</HI> and in <HI>much A&s;&s;urance</HI> that it &s;hall be all found me. For whatever &s;ome would imagine or de&s;ire, not one tittle thereof &s;hall fail until all be fulfilled. Hereby is evident and al&s;o &s;een that God is &s;tronger; for He doth continually &s;end forth his Me&s;&s;enger u<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">|on the Pale Hor&s;e who&s;e name is <HI>Death;</HI> which notwith&s;tanding all their Multitude and Power doth<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">e&s;t them &s;everally to bring them before his Judgment Seat. <HI>Is not this laid up in &s;tore with me <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;ealed up among my trea&s;ures? To me belongeth Vengeance and Recompence: their foot &s;hall &s;lide in du<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter"> time</HI> (ob&s;erve that) <HI>for the day of their Calamity is at hand, and the Things that &s;hall come upon them, make ha&s;te,</HI> Deut. 32.34, 35. <HI>Dearly beloved, Avenge not your &s;elves, but rather give place unto Wrath, for it is written, Vengeance is mine, I will repay, &s;aith the Lord,</HI> Rom. 12.19. In the&s;e things Man hath nothing to do to take Vengeance or proceed to Puni&s;hment, and yet if any &s;hould be &s;o Pre|&s;umptuous as to intermeddle with this &s;ealed Trea&s;ure and Prerogative of Almighty God, He will again recompence to &s;uch Per&s;on or Per&s;ons accordingly.</P>
<P>So that whereas the People of this Nation did call their <HI>King</HI> to Account, and puni&s;h him with Depri<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">|tion for tho&s;e unlawful things, He is &s;uppo&s;ed and charged to have committed (which yet by the La<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters"> God and of this Realm they ought not to have done) I thought at that very time He was driven a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters"> from his Kingdom; That this Act of theirs would &s;omewhat take off and le&s;&s;en from what He <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> unto in the Future Account, in that God would &s;o over-rule this Malice and Rebellion of M<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters"> to change it into a Temporal Cha&s;ti&s;ement and Puni&s;hment of his Iniquity if He hath <HI>accepted</HI> it as &s;uch <HI>Levit.</HI> 26.41. As indeed to live in outward Mirth and Recreations, or to &s;eek to recover his Kingdom again by Blood, is not con&s;i&s;tent with that &s;tate of Humiliation and Waiting on the Lord, He &s;hould have been in all along and He &s;hould be in yet. Our God doth once more &s;eem to &s;hew forth th<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters"> &s;hedding of Blood is not his Way and Method of bringing back his Anointed, as appears &s;omewhat b<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters"> the late Victory had over the <HI>French Fleet.</HI> But if &s;till God is plea&s;ed <HI>to devi&s;e other means that h<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters"> bani&s;hed be not expelled from him,</HI> 2 Sam. 14.14. and He <HI>cau&s;e Judgment to return to Righteou&s;ne&s;s</HI> And this be done not by <HI>Power,</HI> nor by <HI>Might,</HI> but by his <HI>Spirit</HI> and the Manife&s;tation of his <HI>Truth</HI> (which every Son and Daughter of God ought to &s;trive to the utmo&s;t that it go forth continually; and every Soul that will not yield Obedience unto it, &s;hall be Mi&s;erable for ever) Here again great heed is to be taken that the la&s;t Errour be not like unto the fir&s;t, for the <HI>Wrath of Man worketh not the Righteou&s;ne&s;s of God,</HI> and therefore this hath nothing to do or inflict. And though our Nature, as it is Corrupt, may
<PB N="2" REF="2" MS="y">meditate of Vengeance, and as it is wi&s;e according to the Fle&s;h. It may think &s;ome Puni&s;hment nece&s;&s;a|ry as to Future Security and Prevention of the like Things; yet the Language of Faith and the Spirit of the knowledge and fear of the Lord &s;aith on this wi&s;e, that the more We let alone and refrain from the&s;e Men, they will meet a more &s;evere Judgment from the Lord, and there can be no &s;uch &s;ure E&s;tabli&s;hment for the time to come as by <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> and to Order it <HI>with Judgment and with Ju&s;tice,</HI> according to the Rules and Directions of God's Word.</P>
<P>If any part hereof doth &s;eem &s;omewhat &s;trange or unintelligible, &s;o may any any Truth when it is fir&s;t brought to our &s;ight and apprehen&s;ion; or when that is throughly and clearly manife&s;ted, which was but imperfectly and confu&s;edly Thought of before.</P>
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<HEAD>A Word to the Members of the <HI>Privy Council,</HI> as they do Sit to Advi&s;e and give Orders in Mat|ters of <HI>War.</HI></HEAD>
<P>It is written, that after <HI>Herod</HI> killed <HI>James, He proceeded further to take</HI> Peter <HI>al&s;o,</HI> Acts 12.2, 3. and of one who <HI>&s;trengthened him&s;elf in his Wickedne&s;s,</HI> P&s;al. 52.7. Which is done only by committing the &s;everal &s;ucce&s;&s;ive and repeated Acts thereof, for thus they are the more confirmed and hardened, yet and encouraged in an evil Matter. There is in Men by Nature an awful Apprehen&s;ion of God; and they are at fir&s;t fearful to offend againg him; But when they &s;ee others provoke him and no harm happen un|to them; Yea commonly The&s;e <HI>&V;ngodly do pro&s;per in the World, They increa&s;e in Riches,</HI> then they take heart by little and little to Sin again&s;t him; e&s;pecially if they find no hurt upon them&s;elves, as pre&s;ent|ly they do not, and when they are &s;ome what habituated and accu&s;tomed to it, They go on to Tran&s;gre&s;s more and more. As it is &s;aid in the Proverb, <HI>Over Shoes, over Boots,</HI> when once they are throughly in, they think that mu&s;t and they do go on in the &s;ame. When an Army is once blooded (as we &s;ay) then they are more de&s;perate and cruel, and they having been u&s;ed to &s;o much Murther already, they do not refrain from any kind of Slaughter. This &s;eems to be the very Rea&s;on why at this day they do not cea&s;e from, but they go on &s;till in the <HI>Pro&s;ecution of the War,</HI> notwith&s;tanding it hath been declared unto them that the <HI>Lord will make Inqui&s;ition for Blood,</HI> P&s;al. 9.12. And He will require at the hands of &s;uch (who have the outward Power to proclaim War or treat of Peace) <HI>the life of every man</HI> Gen. 9.5. which hath been already, or &s;hall yet be lo&s;t in the&s;e unnece&s;&s;ary Wars. For &s;o they are in as much as they might have been avoided at fir&s;t, and even now, or at any time an End may be put unto them. Neverthele&s;s Our chief Men and Rulers do not regard the Word of God, nor what is here truly alledged from thence concerning the Future Account them&s;elves mu&s;t give for the &s;ame, but they go on &s;till in their own ways after their own Wi&s;dom and Will, and they think or &s;ay, We will venture the Con&s;equent thereof. Some of them know that <HI>their own heart is di&s;obedient to the Law of God in other things,</HI> and &s;o they are as it were <HI>blinded</HI> and do not throughly under&s;tand what this means; Others brave it off with a high hand of Pre|&s;umption, Contempt and Di&s;obedience.</P>
<P>It is a &s;ad and marvellous thing to con&s;ider, that now <HI>The Sword, the Sword is drawn</HI> (the Holy Gho&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">th twice Repeat it, becau&s;e of the continuance and &s;ucce&s;&s;ion thereof) <HI>for Slaughter it is fourbi&s;hed, to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">&s;ume becau&s;e of the glittering: Whiles they &s;ee Vanity unto thee, whiles they Divine a Lye unto thee, to <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">ing thee upon the Necks of them that are &s;lain of the Wicked, who&s;e day is come, when their Iniquity <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">ll have an End,</HI> Ezek. 21.29. This again is to be applied to our Bi&s;hops, Prie&s;ts and Deacons, and to the other Writers and Teachers; for (the&s;e exactly like the fal&s;e Prophets there intended) do &s;ute and mo|del their Doctrine and Di&s;cour&s;e (which they deliver in their Pamphlets, Sermons and Per&s;onal Conver|&s;ation) according to the Corrupt Will and Doings of the <HI>Rich and Mighty People.</HI></P>
<P>But now be it known unto you all (which yet ye <HI>will not believe, though a Man declare it unto ye</HI>) That God hath &s;ent forth a Word and publi&s;hed a Truth by his Servant, <HI>Richard Stafford,</HI> which if through|ly under&s;tood and univer&s;ally received: It would <HI>cau&s;e the Sword to return into his Sheath,</HI> Ezek. 21.30. and <HI>pre&s;erve Life,</HI> Gen. 45.5. according to that Expre&s;&s;ion of the Patriarch. God doth &s;end out his Truth by &s;ome In&s;trument or other to <HI>&s;ave the lives,</HI> ver&s;. 7. of tho&s;e who are not yet killed. Now in that Ca&s;e if they had <HI>Impri&s;oned Jo&s;eph</HI> a &s;econd time for Progno&s;ticating evil Things to their Country, and if they had given no heed to his Words, then all, or mo&s;t of the <HI>Egyptians</HI> had peri&s;hed in the &s;even Years of Famine. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mark this well.</NOTE> But this the Heathen did not do, whereas contrariwi&s;e the People of this Generation and Nation have done both with Me, for when they ought to have obeyed the <HI>Truth of God,</HI> which I wrote down and publi&s;hed, They did by the In&s;tigation of the Dev<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">
<PB N="3" REF="2">ca&s;t me into Pri&s;on for the &s;ame. And thus, <HI>They are of their Father the Devil, and the Lu&s;ts of their Father they will do</HI> (Ob&s;erve that) <HI>He was a Murtherer from the beginning, and abode not in the Truth, becau&s;e their is no Truth in him: When He &s;peaketh a Lye, He &s;peaketh of his own, for He is a Lyer, and the Father of it,</HI> John 8.44. For the making and averring of a down right Lye, was the Pre|tence whereby they held Me almo&s;t Eight Months in <HI>Bethlehem-Ho&s;pital.</HI> During all which time I was for a <HI>Stone of Stumbling, and for a Rock of Offence to both the Hou&s;es of</HI> England; <HI>for a Gin and a Snare to the Inhabitants of</HI> London; God permitting it &s;o to be for a Proof and Tryal, whether They could know and put a difference between the <HI>certainty of the Words of Truth,</HI> and the Imaginations of a di&s;|ordered Under&s;tanding. But it was therefore thus pervertly done with Me of &s;et purpo&s;e, <HI>That the Re|&s;idue of the People who are Men of War might be con&s;umed, becau&s;e they Obeyed not the Voice of the Word of the Lord.</HI> And then by putting Me down into a dark lowermo&s;t Room, That the <HI>Sound</HI> and <HI>Voice</HI> of my <HI>Words</HI> &s;hould not be heard di&s;tinctly and clearly, was that Scripture fulfilled? <HI>It ca&s;t down the Truth to the Ground, and it Practi&s;ed and Pro&s;pered,</HI> Dan. 8.12. Which word <HI>Pro&s;per</HI> (though it is harped upon &s;o mightily, and in their way of <HI>Bla&s;phemy</HI> and <HI>evil Speaking</HI> a&s;cribed to God's Ble&s;&s;ing, wherein <HI>they think him to be altogether &s;uch an one as them&s;elves,</HI> P&s;al. 50.21.) imports to be further enabled to &s;hed more <HI>Blood.</HI> For who gets the Victory, but he that kills mo&s;t? and then by committing further Sin and Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, They do only heap upon them&s;elves more Guilt, &s;ad Account and Mi&s;ery for the la&s;t days. <HI>Shall the Sword devour for ever? know We not it will be bitterne&s;s in the End?</HI></P>
<P>Now the <HI>Sword</HI> is as certainly a Judgment of God as the Fire, Plague or Famine. When a Fire is bro|ken out, People do whatever lies in their power to extingui&s;h it again as &s;oon as they can. They provide again&s;t a Famine, and &s;eek Remedies for Prevention or Cure of the Plague. But wherefore do they not in like manner endeavour to &s;top the People from pur&s;uing to follow their Brethren and Fellow-Creatures, and to cau&s;e the <HI>drawn Sword to be put up,</HI> and that the <HI>Grievou&s;ne&s;s of War might cea&s;e.</HI> The Rea&s;on of this great Diver&s;ity may be hence conceived and under&s;tood, becau&s;e <HI>Satan</HI> (the Executioner of God's Wrath and Judgments) doth here make Men them&s;elves the In&s;truments for carrying on the De&s;truction of one another; and in order to that he doth in&s;til &s;uch and &s;uch things into the Minds of Men to the contrary.</P>
<P>And whereas &s;ome &s;ay, <HI>Let it alone till that day comes,</HI> or we <HI>will venture the Con&s;equent thereof;</HI> Would ye know ye vain deceivers of your own &s;elves! That day will as certainly come, as it is certain that ye now live or &s;hall one day die. There is no great daring in all this; for through their Ignorance and Unbelief every Per&s;ecutor, Oppre&s;&s;or, Murtherer, Robber; Yea all the Sinners and Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ors thoughout the Earth, do run the venture of their own Damnation. But I mu&s;t tell ye all in &s;ober truth and &s;adne&s;s, That this is the mo&s;t dreadful Adventure in the World for any one to run, either God mu&s;t love a Lier, or tho&s;e that do &s;uch and &s;uch things &s;hall go into Hell. They might as &s;afely throw them|&s;elves into the Fire to try if it will not burn; for our God is a con&s;uming Fire, and &s;o He will at length appear to <HI>devour his Adver&s;aries.</HI></P>
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<HEAD>A Word to all Soldiers.</HEAD>
<P>There are many People who fulfil the Scriptures when they know not that they do &s;o; and even whil&s;t they Act perver&s;ly again&s;t God and di&s;obedient to his Law; It comes &s;o upon them according as He hath <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">re &s;poken of in his Word. As by tho&s;e at this day who are employed in carrying on the War, It is found <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> what is written, <HI>And thou Son of Man, thus &s;aith the Lord God, &s;peak to every feathered Fowl and to every Bea&s;t of the Field, A&s;&s;emble your &s;elves and come, gather your &s;elves on every &s;ide to my Sacrifice that I do Sacrifice for you, even a great Sacrifice upon the Mountains of I&s;rael, that ye may eat fle&s;h and drink blood: Ye &s;hall eat the fle&s;h of the mighty, and drink the the Blood of the Princes of the Earth, Ezek.</HI> 39.17, 18. <HI>For thus &s;aith the Lord God of I&s;rael unto me, Take the Wine cup of this fury at my <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">nd, and cau&s;e all Nations, to whom I &s;end thee, to drink it. And they &s;hall drink, and be moved, and be MAD, becau&s;e of the Sword that I will &s;end among them,</HI> 25.15, 16. <HI>For the Indignation of the Lord is upon all Nations, and his Fury upon all their Armies: He hath utterly de&s;troyed them, he hath delivered them to the &s;laughter. Their &s;lain &s;hall be ca&s;t out, and their &s;tink &s;hall come up out of their Carca&s;es, and the Mountains &s;hall be melted with their Blood,</HI> I&s;a. 34. 2, 3. The Kings, Princes, and Rulers of the Earth do not Read and Con&s;ider throughly of all this, as they are rai&s;ing Men, making Pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">tions for War, and forming out their Camps. <HI>Therefore I will number you to the Sword, and ye &s;hall <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters">w down to the &s;laughter,</HI> I&s;a. 65.12. For &s;o is the Eternity, Pre&s;cience and Omni&s;cience of Almigh|ty God, that He &s;peaks of as already pa&s;t what is yet to come; And He knows before hand tho&s;e Per&s;ons
<PB N="4" REF="3">by their Names, with the other Circum&s;tances of Time, Place and Manner who have been already, and &s;hall yet be killed in War. <HI>And they &s;hall go forth, and look upon the Carca&s;es of the Men that have tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed again&s;t me: and they &s;hall be an abhorring to all fle&s;h,</HI> I&s;a. 66.24. The Prophet here &s;eeme to allude unto a Field after a pitcht Battel hath been Fought therein; where is to be &s;een a great number of Corp&s;es every way mangled and defiled with Blood and Excrements, which cau&s;e a &s;tink and noy&s;ome|ne&s;s and then they are but little weak vile Bodies made of dirt and clay and covered over with that gha&s;tly look Death hath ca&s;t upon them; All this put together rai&s;es an <HI>Abhorring.</HI> And this happens unto them of both &s;ides, as to the Cau&s;e and Occa&s;ion of their Fighting and Murdering one another, becau&s;e they have <HI>tran&s;gre&s;&s;ed again&s;t the Lord.</HI></P>
<P>As commonly the Actors herein are trained on, di&s;ciplined and led blindly to this kind of End by <HI>gro&s;s Ignorance of the Things of God, Vain Swearing, Whoredom, Drunkenne&s;s, Pride, Revenge</HI> and <HI>Quar|relling:</HI> Which do more chiefly abound in them than in other People. For as throughout the whole Book of the Lord War is let forth by way of his <HI>Indignation.</HI> I&s;a. 34.2. upon the Inhabitants of the Earth; &s;o his rea&s;onable Creatures would not willingly make choice of this kind of Employment, unle&s;s &s;uch as are given up to the&s;e or the like Sins and Abominations.</P>
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<HEAD>Another &s;hort Warning to him hereafter Named.</HEAD>
<P>Whereas it is &s;aid in Page 6 of my Printed Book, Entituled, <HI>The Ma&s;tery of Iniquity &s;omewhat l<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Open, &amp;c.</HI> That though God had rejected <HI>Saul</HI> from that day forward (&s;ee 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15.26.28.) in which <HI>Samuel</HI> &s;pake after this manner; Yet he continued King over all I&s;rael until the day in which he was &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> in the Battel again&s;t the <HI>Phili&s;tines.</HI> And therefore from what is there further &s;aid and alledged, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> Lords and Coun&s;ellors, if they be his real Friends, &s;hould even weeping be&s;eech (whom ye call) K<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> <HI>William,</HI> Yea, Tho&s;e near about him &s;hould take hold of the Skirt of his Garment, as not to &s;uffer <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> to go out any more to Battel, nor adventure him&s;elf therein by Sea or Land, lea&s;t it &s;hould be not <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> with the certain hazard, but yet greater danger of his Life. For it is &s;aid in the Proverb, <HI>The Pitcher <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> not go &s;o often to the Well but it is broken at la&s;t;</HI> and Him&s;elf may learn by the Examples of <HI>Schom<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Walker,</HI> and &s;everal others of his own Knowledge and Experience (who e&s;caped as many near immi<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Dangers as ever he did, and yet were at la&s;t killed in War,) That the <HI>Sword devoureth one as well as other,</HI> and the Bullets fly promi&s;cuou&s;ly among&s;t them all: and therefore he only is &s;afe who doth meddle with nor come near them. And here if it &s;hould &s;o happen (whereof He is again hereby wa<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> As He hath hitherto lived therein, &s;o He would die in his Sin and Iniquity: But rather let him co<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> Repentance, and &s;eek for Peace only by <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> (See <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 72.3. the Bible Tran&s;lation, &amp; <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> 7.2.) for there is no other way under Heaven, whereby we may come to it.</P>
<P>In this Ca&s;e it is thought that it is vain to give Warning; For &s;ay what we will, <HI>The De&s;tiny wh<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> they are Worthy will bring them to their End;</HI> and as <HI>Jo&s;ephus</HI> the Hi&s;torian &s;aith, <HI>De&s;tiny is &s;uch a <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> which the Wi&s;e&s;t Man cannot avoid:</HI> But certain I am, it is not &s;o much their <HI>De&s;tiny,</HI> as their and their <HI>Ignorance,</HI> and their <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>Folly,</HI> which lead them. For the foregoing Things are manife&s;tly in<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> own Power, as in the pre&s;ent In&s;tance, He (of whom we &s;peak) may go out to War, or He may go out: He may <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1 word"> <HI>break off his Sins by Righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> and thus <HI>lengthen,</HI> yea &s;ecure his own Tranq<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="in gutter" EXTENT="1+ letters"> if He will.</P>
<P>The Wrong getting and Unju&s;t keeping of an Earthly Kingdom, or of the greate&s;t Worldly Profit few Months or Years longer, cannot be a &s;ufficient Compen&s;ation for the Lo&s;s of Heaven, and falling Hell for all Eternity.</P>
<P>Mo&s;t of this Te&s;timony was fini&s;hed <HI>March</HI> 25. 1692. and if it had then been made known unto and Obeyed by them whom it doth more e&s;pecially Concern, the Truth contain|ed herein would have &s;aved tho&s;e Lives which have been lo&s;t in War this Summer, and it would pre&s;erve them for the time to come, if they will do accordingly.</P>
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