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<HEAD>The <HI>My&s;tery of Iniquity</HI> &s;omewhat laid open: In a Letter to the Pre&s;ent <HI>Governour;</HI> wherein is al&s;o contained an Hi&s;tory and Recital and Propo&s;al of Sundry <HI>Things</HI> to be made known and remembred, and to be done accordingly.</HEAD>
<HEAD TYPE="sub">In that Letter which I carried to thine Hou&s;e at <HI>Ken&s;ington</HI> on <HI>November</HI> 3. 1691. which was there burnt (as near as I can remember) the words contained therein was to this following Effect, <HI>viz.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THAT I having publi&s;hed my Book, Entituled, <HI>Things Plain and Weigh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> &amp;c. There was an ob&s;ervable Marginal Note in <HI>Page 12. That God would remove the Government off from thy Shoulders, and yet not hurt thy Per&s;on:</HI> It was my Duty to make this known unto you as &s;oon as ever this was printed and publi&s;hed; which was before thy la&s;t Expedition into <HI>Flanders.</HI> But I neglected to do it then for fear thou &s;houlde&s;t Impri&s;on me, which now thou ha&s;t done. Yet I was again troubled at this my neglect, lea&s;t thou going into the Wars, it &s;hould happen otherwi&s;e with thee than I had there written, and &s;o the things which belong to thy Peace had been pa&s;&s;ed away and gone from thee for all Eternity: Which was very likely to have come to pa&s;s, when thou &s;ate&s;t under a Tree, and &s;oon after thou wa&s;t aro&s;e from thence, a cannon bullet did &s;trike the very place whereon thou &s;ate&s;t; if the publick <HI>Gazette</HI> be true that relates it after this manner. Herein thou love&s;t thine Enemies and hate&s;t thy Friends; for thou ha&s;t declared this day in Impri&s;oning me (who do really and unfeignedly de&s;ire thy Temporal Pre&s;ervation, and <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">See my printed Letter directed to thee at the <HI>Hague.</HI></NOTE> that thou maye&s;t live out all tho&s;e days which God hath appointed to the Life of Man upon Earth; and therefore I would admoni&s;h thee to cea&s;e from and not venture thy &s;elf, nor &s;end others into the&s;e dan|gerous Wars) for I do perceive, according to the Mind that then and now thou art in, if according to the Dictates and In&s;inuations of thy Fooli&s;h Flatterers and Admirers. Thou had&s;t de&s;cended into Battel and peri&s;hed there, they would cry it up for Brave and Honorable; and the Thoughts of this vain Glory and Prai&s;e doth plea&s;e thee well and &s;pur thee on; though if it had &s;o happened, thy mind would have been changed for all Eternity; for thy Soul would &s;till remember, and remain full of Indig|nation and Wrath. Tribulation and Angui&s;h, for what thou &s;oughte&s;t to be commended here on this Earth. But now I do well come and congratulate thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e coming here again into <HI>England:</HI> And I do Pray and Hope that it will be exactly &s;o done with thee according to that Word which God &s;hewed unto me upon one of your appointed publick days of Fa&s;ting and Humiliation (which I did then ob&s;erve, not for the Rea&s;ons men|tioned in thy Proclamation for it, but for the Sins and Hypocri&s;ie of this People, and that I might &s;eek and Pray for their Good) This &s;ame Word which then &s;prung up in my Heart, and remained within me for &s;everal Months (the Lord pardon my &s;inful Fear and Di&s;tru&s;t, in hiding within my Heart and concealing this Truth <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> 4<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 10. &s;o long, for this ought not &s;o to have been, I did at length write it down and publi&s;h it to the Great Congregation, for &s;o it would be, if now all were gathered together who have read or heard of this Word. And I came on <HI>November</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> put to thy dwelling place at <HI>Ken&s;ington,</HI> for to &s;ignifie and make known this (with many other things) unto thee. But in&s;tead of thy receiving and ob&s;erving the Law and Word of God, thy Servants did burn that Book wherein it was written, and they did Impri&s;on me for &s;ome little time in a place where they keep Coals. This was &s;omewhat like <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> and <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> in the days of Old, But what came upon him for &s;o doing? <HI>Therefore <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;aith the Lord of</HI> Jeho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> <HI>King of</HI> Judah, <HI>He &s;hall have none to &s;it upon the Throne of</HI> David, <HI>and his dead Body <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> be ca&s;t out in the day to the heat, and in the night <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Fro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">. And I will puni&s;h <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> and his Seed, and his Servants for their Iniquity. And I will bring upon them, and
<PB N="2" REF="2"> upon the Inhabitants of</HI> Jeru&s;alem, <HI>and upon the Men of</HI> Judah, <HI>all the Evil that I pro|nounced again&s;t them, but they hearkened not,</HI> Jer. 36. 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, 31. Now what thy Servants (O thou that art called King <HI>William)</HI> do by thy Command or Approbation, God interprets i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> to be thine own Act. And here the former words are vi&s;ibly true of thee&punc; thou &s;halt have none (that is, I&s;&s;ue of thy Body) to &s;it upon the Throne of thy Father in Law. As the Lord liveth, and as &s;ure as now thou live&s;t, thy day &s;hall come to dye; And though thy dead Body &s;hould be interred in the Royal Chappel at <HI>W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;tm<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;ter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">y</HI> among the Ancient Kings of this Nation yet things may &s;o alter and turn, that it may be taken up again, and be removed or expo&s;ed to Shame. But mo&s;t ce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly it &s;hall ri&s;e up at the la&s;t day, and then it may be t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rown into devouring Fire and everla&s;ting Burnings, and it may become &s;ubject unto Gna&s;hing of Teeth; which is ten thou&s;and times wor&s;e than to be ca&s;t out in the day to the Heat&punc; and in the night to the Fro&s;t.</P>
<P>According to the Proverb <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> mu&s;t be ver<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ad to be wor&s;e th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n a Turk;</HI> But I tell thee Truly and Pla<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nly that the Turks &s;hall ri&s;e up in Judgment again&s;t thee, and condemn thee; for they out of Reverence to th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Great God of Heaven and Earth, will take up any Paper wherein but &s;o much as the Name of God is written, and lay it up very carefully, and they will not put it to any common or undecent u&s;e: So far are they from tearing it, or throw|ing it upon the Ground or b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rning it; for the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n or Provocation there, &s;ee<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s to be of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he &s;ame nature; as that is o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> purpo&s;e to cut, deface or burn the King's Picture; which is e&s;teemed as a great A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ront unto him, In like manner, to do &s;o unto his Truth (which though clothed and expre&s;&s;ed in a dead Letter, it doth bear the Image and Super&s;cription of him that is Invi&s;ible) is a mo&s;t hainous Off<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nce, &s;uch as words cannot well expre&s;s the utmo&s;t Aggravation thereof. God will an&s;wer that Man or Woman in a like Puni&s;hment; for the &s;ame Word which goes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">orth from him, will be a con&s;uming Fire to devour its Ad|ver&s;aries. He &s;hall &s;peak and it &s;hall be done accordingly; He &s;hall give forth the Sentence, by virtue whereof they &s;hall go to Hell: So that the &s;ame manner as a Man &s;inned, by the &s;ame he &s;hall be puni&s;hed. God will puni&s;h thee and thy Servants (He will bring them out by their Names and by their Per&s;ons who&s;oever they be) for this their <HI>Iniquity;</HI> and he will bring upon you and upon the Inhabitants of <HI>England,</HI> all the Evils which He pro|nounced again&s;t Ye, but ye hearkened not. It is &s;o in the Mind and Purpo&s;e of God before it is made known upon Earth; and &s;o it remains notwith&s;tanding they &s;hould forget or lo&s;e the knowledge thereof. And it &s;hall be done with thy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> and People, and the Officers under thee, according to the real Significations, and true Meaning of tho&s;e words which God hath publi&s;hed by me his Servant. And though ye have burnt that Book, yet I have by me more Copies of the &s;ame Book; one whereof for thy own reading and p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">u&s;al. thou maye&s;t have when&s;oever thou wilt: And be&s;ides what is there printed, God doth keep the &s;ame in my Memory, and I am ready to write again according to the &s;ame words which I wrote down there: and now ye have given occa&s;ion to add many like words.</P>
<P>As p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ularly I did &s;hew &s;ome of them (the la&s;t Month) in a letter to the Earl of <HI>Not|tingham,</HI> which I &s;uppo&s;e either came not to his hands, or he de&s;pi&s;ed or concealed it&punc; So that if I would Honour thee in the &s;ight of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">y People, and only &s;ignifie the &s;ame in a written Copy, this will not an&s;wer the End for I would have it made known unto thee. So that I am forced to publi&s;h even &s;ome more trivial Matters, which do not de&s;erve to be made publick. But I am willing that &s;everal Copies &s;hould go out, if perhaps one may come unto thee or to thy hearing thereof. And al&s;o when it is printed, thou can&s;t more ea&s;ily read it, than my hand-writing, which is bad and difficult</P>
<P>But then further, it is agreeable to the Method and Will of God, that what Sin or Evil his Creature doth &s;ecretly, He will both reprove and puni&s;h <HI>before all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">el, and before the S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> 2 Sam. 12. 12. Nothing is &s;ecret but that it &s;hould be made manife&s;t; and nothing is hidden but that it &s;hould come abroad. So that even for &s;ecret private and hidden Sins, open Reproof is proper, that others may fear, and take heed of the like things. But much more for the things thou do&s;t openly, the &s;ame may in like manner be reproved from the Word of the All &s;eeing God (notwith&s;tanding He now keeps &s;ilence) and &s;et in order before you. I am certain, that things of a thou&s;and times le&s;s Moment are printed and publi&s;hed.</P>
<P>If I could not get Admi&s;&s;ion to deliver my Books in Per&s;on unto thy &s;elf and thy Wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e
<PB N="3" REF="2"> (as I was before &s;hewed that I &s;hould not) then the Lord directed me to leave them how|ever &s;ome way or other; for that would turn for a Witne&s;s again&s;t you. Which al&s;o ye are &s;en&s;ible and apprehen&s;ible of And therefore perhaps that was one rea&s;on why ye did act this kind of Revenge and Spite again&s;t me, as to &s;end me rather unto a w<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r&s;e place than that of Dragons to be covered with the &s;hadow of Death; but this is among the Ravings of D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">racted Per&s;ons which hath &s;ome Repre&s;entation of Hell, and the Howlings of Damned Spirits But ye did not know, o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> at lea&s;t not throughly con&s;ider, that this will make it turn for a yet greater Witne&s;s and Te&s;timony again&s;t your &s;elves. So that to ex|cu&s;e the Sin hereof, ye will one day wi&s;h that the Lord would impute M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ne&s;s to you; for as the Wi&s;e Man &s;aith, <HI>The Heart of the Son<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> of evil, and Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ne&s;s i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> in their Heart while they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ve, and after that they go to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">,</HI> Eccle&s;. 9. 3. So the more W<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e and di&s;cerning of them, would be glad if the Lord would reckon their former Sin and Evil as Madne&s;s, &s;o that they might either e&s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pe, or have their Puni&s;hment mitigated after Death. But the All wi&s;e and All knowing is not as Man that He &s;hould be deceived: He will mini&s;ter true Judgment unto the People in Uprightne&s;s. And He will <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">pute this Act of yours not as Madne&s;s but as Malice. Yea to be Rebellion as the Sin of Witc<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">craft, and &s;uch Stubbornne&s;s, which is as Iniquity and Idolatry, becau&s;e ye have rejected the Word of the Lord, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 15 23 He will adjudge it to be an higher degree of Rebellion, and a wor&s;e &s;ort of Stubbornne&s;s than that here &s;poken of; In that ye were not only con|tented to reject his Word&punc; but ye did Impri&s;on his Servant who came in the Me&s;&s;age and Mini&s;tration thereof. But here ye may be apt to &s;ay, Why then thou &s;houlde&s;t have carried away thy Books again when thou wert b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d &s;o to do; and then perhaps this Con|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">inement had not happened unto thee But I did not dare neglect what the Lord com|manded me&punc; lea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> I &s;hould have been Di&s;obedient to the Voice of God within me. And ac|cordingly then I &s;p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ke in as &s;ilent and friendly manner as one Man talketh to another, that I might deliver my Books in Per&s;on; but they would not admit me nor &s;uffer me to leave them any where in the Hou&s;e, but they turned me out of D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">rs And as I was going out I did not cry nor lif<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> up nor cau&s;e my Voice to be heard in the Ho<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e nor did I &s;hew the lea&s;t &s;ign of Madne&s;s <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">vagancy in my Deportment; but only as I was ju<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t gone without the Doors I drop'd them upon the Ground in a &s;ilent and peaceable manner there to re|main. And this was all my troubling of the Court (according to their Phra&s;e) for they call it &s;o, though I did not &s;peak one word of what was contained in my Books</P>
<P>But here &s;omewhat may be ob&s;erved of the Work and Moving of God; for like as when <HI>the Lord looked unto the Ho&s;t of the Egyptians, through <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Pillar of Fire and of the Cloud, He troubled the Ho&s;t of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he Egyptians.</HI> Exod. 14. 24. And as is &s;ignified by what is written 1 <HI>Sam</HI> 16. 5. T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e Elders of the Town trembled at his coming and &s;aid, <HI>Co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;t thou Peace|able?</HI> So at the co<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ing of Chri&s;t <HI>(<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">o was the Word, and the Word <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">as God&punc;</HI> John 1. 1) into the World, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> Herod <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">he King <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> the&s;e things, he was troubled and all</HI> Jeru&s;alem <HI>with him,</HI> M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">.3 In like manner each Manife&s;tation or Rumor or Report of the true Wo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> God doth cau&s;e a Motion or Trouble in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Hearts of the Inhabitants of the Earth; though they do only apprehend or gue&s;s &s;omewhat; but they do not know di&s;tinctly what it is So that, let not People think, as if any &s;trange or new thing happened. That <HI>Richard <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> coming with the Word of God and his Righteou&s;ne&s;s the outward Te&s;timony whereof being Written and Printed, was the very &s;ame by Interpretation and his Re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l Int<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">tion, as if he &s;poke out every Sentence, Word and Syllable into their Ears; but he did not open his Lips, as to utter any thing audibly contained in it; Yet by doing &s;o far only he did trouble (whom ye call, King <HI>William</HI> and Queen <HI>Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> and all their O<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">icers and Servants with them. But I do hereby tell them f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rther. That this Troubling is a &s;hort and little Earne&s;t of a wor&s;e thing that &s;hall befall them and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">at wor&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">.</P>
<P>Likeas the Fi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e at <HI>Ken&s;ington-Hou&s;e</HI> was a Sign or Warning of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hat &s;hould come upon his or their own Hea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s; for as the Lord &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">th, <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> Mal. 3. 5. So in this Life God does not u&s;ually P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;h but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> &s;he<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> a Token <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">t he will p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">i&s;h, or rather he doth only b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> pu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;h And &s;o in whatever Affliction he doth lay upon M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">nd, Body or E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ate, or if it be Sudden Temporal Death the or<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">er <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eems to be Cor|rection or Cha&s;ti&s;ement, which is in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">erior or le&s;s than Puni&s;hment And as for Temporal Death <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">
<PB N="4" REF="3"> And &s;o the Wrath of God, which did and doth yet hover over <HI>Whitehall</HI> and <HI>Ken&s;ington-<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s word was &s;hewed to me in my Heart, even before that Fire al&s;o happened at <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> in the beginning of this Year.) was lately a little kindled, and did break forth upon the latter place into devouring Fire. The former part of this Exp<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ion I &s;hould have proclaimed out aloud when I was at <HI>Ken&s;ington-Hou&s;e,</HI> but I neglected &s;o to do, for fear, (the Lord Pardon thy Servant in this thing) but I did proclaim this word on the eighth of <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> which was two days before the Fire happened there. And then I did through the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> of the Pri&s;on I was in, utter it with a loud audible di&s;tinct Voice, to the intent (whereof I did think at the very time) that it might be of greater Effect and Confirmation, and that it mig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t be more rati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ed and recorded before God. And it was then an&s;wered in a &s;till Voice to my Heart, that it would be &s;o accordingly; for a Law is of greater Force and Energy when it is proclaimed; and &s;o the word is more e&s;tabli&s;hed by is being &s;poken out. This Fire did not hurt the Per&s;on of the two chief Inhabitants of that Hou&s;e, nor (I &s;uppo&s;e) &s;inge the Hem of their Garment, for probably they did ari&s;e up and get away from it which is the com|mon and ordinary way to do in &s;uch danger. But did it not terri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ie and affect their Minds for the pre&s;ent time&punc; Behold, in all this is to be di&s;cerned the Riches of his Goodne&s;s, and forbea|rance and long-&s;uffering; and they are to know that the Goodne&s;s of God &s;hould lead them to Repentance.</P>
<P>But the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> according to the Doctrine of D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <HI>John Ti<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;on,</HI> in ca&s;e of Injuries or Wrong to the outward E&s;tate of another there can be no R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">pentance without Re&s;titution; for in order to Repentance it is nece&s;&s;ary to undo the Fault as much as it can be; and if it were to do again&punc; we would not do it. This he &s;pake not of him&s;elf (as now he is) but it was before his late Apo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">acy or falling away, when he was only a Preacher of Gods Word, he did rightly deliver this from the very Nature o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> true Repentance; as any one may a&s;&s;uredly know that it is &s;o, who under&s;tands what <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> &s;ignifies whic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> is the proper and right word in the Greek Language <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> it. And notwith&s;tanding what the abovementioned Per&s;on may now flurt or &s;peak outwardly with fair words deceiving the Hearts of the Simple; or whatever &s;trong Delu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ons he may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gle among<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> tho&s;e who are <HI>Part<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">cipes Criminis,</HI> who would fain be|lieve a Lye; <HI>Fac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">dimus q<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">od vo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">umus;</HI> yet he cannot now gain&s;ay the &s;ame, lea&s;t he &s;hould by &s;peaking contrary to the Spirit of his own mind, and &s;o in the Prophets Phra&s;e bely the Lord; if it may be &s;uppo&s;ed that there doth any thing of God now remain in him. I do not love to Quote Authors, becau&s;e it is Parrot like to repeat anothers words, and we &s;hould apprehend Truth as Di&s;tinct from Men But yet it was not altogether improper to cit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> him by Name, that the Poor Wretch (for &s;o he is no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">with&s;tanding he is inclo&s;ed in his own Fat, and hath great Revenues without Right) may tremble and fear lea&s;t he be condemned out of his own words; and he may be hereby p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t in mind to come to that thorough work of Repentance, to the Acknowledgment (which implies outward Confe&s;&s;ion and Declaration) of the Truth</P>
<P>And &s;eeing that the two Princes have cho&s;en him to be their In&s;tructer and Teacher, I &s;hall here lay before them &s;ome other of his words to the following Purport. I do not de|liver that abovementioned nor yet this <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> becau&s;e I have not now <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">s bound Book of Printed Sermons by me (out of which both the&s;e Sentences are taken) at this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">e; but there I have read &s;o, and it is near to the following Sen&s;e and Meaning <HI>viz.</HI> That <HI>People under the Judgments of God, are like Lead melded with Fire; <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> after they are g<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ne and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> other is removed, they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">o like <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words"> retur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> again to their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ormer Hardne&s;s.</HI> In like manner, whatever &s;ecret Thoughts, Fears or Apprehen&s;ions did ari&s;e in the Heart of the two Princes, ju&s;t as they had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Knowledge thereof <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or at that very time they di<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ee their own Hou&s;e Burning, when perhaps their Heart was melted like Wax in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> of their Bowels; if herein they would give Glory unto Go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">, by <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> and telling op<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ly their Courtiers and Clergy who might tell others the &s;ame) <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> had at that very time. But if t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ey <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Sall<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> will not di&s;cov<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> of them, lea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> by &s;ome of their thoughts then their S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> &s;hould <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> what appear, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">hey &s;hould hereby con|fe&s;s then own <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">: Hear ye give Ear be not Proud <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Lord hath &s;poken thus i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> his Word; and he doth now command and require ye to give Glory unto the Lord God of <HI>I&s;rae<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and make Confe&s;&s;ion unto <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">, tell us <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"> ye did think a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> that very time: Hide it not from us, give Glory unto the Lord your God before he cau&s;e Darkne&s;s, and
<PB N="5" REF="10"> before your Feet &s;tumble upon the dark Mountains; if ye will not, this is Di&s;obedience, and God &s;hall neverthele&s;s bring out and rehear&s;e tho&s;e innermo&s;t Thoughts, that they &s;hall be made known whither ye now for a very little while choo&s;e, or whither ye do refu&s;e. But now it is &s;ome while &s;ince over, ye have almo&s;t forgotten it, or ye do cea&s;e to be affected therewith; and ye are now again &s;hut up and clo&s;ed like the Lead or Wax afore &s;poken of. When this Judgment was ju&s;t flaming before your Eyes, then ye could learn and under&s;tand Righteou&s;ne&s;s; but now the Fire is quenched, ye will not practice and do it. But after your Hardne&s;s and Impenitent Heart, ye Trea&s;ure up unto your &s;elves Wrath again&s;t the day of Wrath and Revelation of the Righteous Judgment of God, who will render unto every Man according to his Deeds: Unto them that are Contentious and do not obey the Truth but obey Unrighteou&s;ne&s;s (as that is exactly your ca&s;e and of tho&s;e who &s;ide with ye) Indigna|tion and Wrath, Tribulation and Angui&s;h, upon every Soul of Man that doth Evil.</P>
<P>What ye call my Troubling of you, it is only to prevent all that; for it is not I, but the Word and Truth which appears forth through me; and your being troubled thereat, doth ari&s;e from the Multitude of thine Iniquity and the Great Hatred; for Sin when it is com|mitted, doth leave Guilt behind. Now when the Sin comes to be Reproved and manife&s;ted, then al&s;o the Guilt is &s;tirred up; and from hence doth ari&s;e Conviction, Shame, Angui&s;h of Spirit (all which are very trouble&s;ome) and fearful Expectation of what all the pre&s;ent Trouble is but a little Earne&s;t and Tran&s;ient Forerunner of that Indignation and Wrath, Tribulation and Angui&s;h, which &s;hall for ever abide and remain upon your Immortal Spirits; which &s;hall be in wor&s;e Pains than that of Dying, and yet they &s;hall never Dye. Con&s;ider, It is good for ye now to be troubled, in order to the Saving of your Souls. And ye had better be warned of it, that ye may flee from the Wrath to come, than to be kept Ignorant, unmindful, or holden under &s;trong Delu&s;ions unto your Dying Day, and &s;o fall Eternally under it. The&s;e &s;trong Delu&s;ions are &s;ent unto tho&s;e who receive not the Love of the Truth; and they are outwardly admini&s;tred by your Mealy&punc; mouthed Prie&s;ts; who do deliver in the&s;e &s;mooth things and Deceits both in their ordinary Preaching, and Per&s;onal Conver&s;ation, to the Intent that they may Plea&s;e and not Offend; and they call this Fal&s;e|ne&s;s and Per<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">idiou&s;ne&s;s to their Holy Mini&s;try, Good Humour and Breeding. But as to &s;peaking the things which become <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ound Doctrine, they are in the Language of the Spirit, Dumb Dogs; for &s;o they are through Fear, Corruption and Sloth. And becau&s;e of the Multitude of them who do neglect, and leave undone tho&s;e things which they ought to do, I am Per&s;ecuted as one Singular; and am as a &s;peckled Bird, <HI>the Birds round about are again&s;t</HI> me, <HI>Jer.</HI> 12. 9. and they do Chatter or put forth the Bill. And whereas I do, like another <HI>John Bapti&s;t,</HI> warn the People of this my Generation to flee from the Wrath to come; and I do mention the Law of God, which &s;aith, that &s;uch and &s;uch things are not Lawful, that is, they ar<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> not con&s;i&s;tent with, but contrary, or otherwi&s;e than &s;uch a Law Commands or Requires. But ye are more to be blamed, and ye are worthy of &s;oarer Pu|ni&s;hment who do offend this Law, than I am thought an Offender only for making mention of this Law; for I do according to what is commanded, <HI>Lev.</HI> 19. 17. Rebuke ye, and I would not &s;uffer Sin upon you But for this doing only, ye do put and &s;hut me up in Pri&s;on; for which doing to me his Servant, God will an&s;wer ye again as to thru&s;t ye down to the lower|mo&s;t Hell.</P>
<P>For a common Swearer, Drunkard or Whore-monger, will receive a Reproof, and he will acknowledge his Fault and make excu&s;es for it; but he will not &s;trike him in the Face who &s;hall give the Admonition. There doth indeed ri&s;e up a greater degree of Rancor, Malice and Hatred again&s;t him that Rebukes for the Sins of Fraud and Inju&s;tice. But when a who<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e Nation do de&s;pi&s;e and fal&s;ifie an Oath when they e&s;tabli&s;h Iniquity by a Law; When by a pretended Law of their own making, they would make void God's Law, <HI>P&s;a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m</HI> 119. 126. and his Fifth Commandment of none effect, <HI>Mat.</HI> 15. 6. by their &s;ayings, Tradition and Practice; for as the Phari&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">es did of old, &s;o do both our Rulers and Phari&s;ees at this day, when the Nations would Reign only them&s;elves and would not have God Reign over them, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">or his Law and Word mentioned among them if it &s;hould contradict their doings and Acti|ons, Then they do impri&s;on, puni&s;h and p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t to death him who &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ll do it. But the very <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Wickedne&s;s and Rebellion would al&s;o impri&s;on, puni&s;h, put to death (if either was in their power) the Living, Almighty and Eternal God. They would lift him off from his
<PB N="6" REF="11"> Throne (which is e&s;tabli&s;hed of old, <HI>P&s;alm</HI> 93. 2.) if they could reach up and do it, for the Floods have lifted up, that is, they do think; and lift up their Voice, that is, &s;peak again&s;t God; yea, there is yet a third a&s;cending &s;tep of Rebellion, they do li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t up their Waves, that is, they act again&s;t God to the utmo&s;t of their power, as high and as far as they can reach. <HI>The Lord on h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">gh is mightier than the noi&s;e of many Waters; yea, than the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Waves of the Sea,</HI> P&s;al. 93. 4. He is above all the Thoughts, Words and Actions of Mortal and Rebellious Creatures. And he is not as the Idols of the <HI>Heathen</HI> to be taken Captive, &s;lain or thrown down. Neverthele&s;s herein he doth prove the Wickedne&s;s and Re|bellion of Men again&s;t him, for he &s;ends his Servants into whom he in&s;tils his Truth and Goodne&s;s; and what is done again&s;t them he doth interpret and receive it as done immediate|ly again&s;t him&s;elf. And &s;o when he &s;ent his only begotten Son into the World: who was the Word and the Word was God, yet they did &s;lay him the Prince of Life. And as Chri&s;t &s;aid, <HI>He that hateth me, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ateth my Father al&s;o,</HI> John 15. 23. &s;o if &s;uch a thing may be &s;up|po&s;ed with Reverence, the &s;ame Wickedne&s;s that did &s;lay his Chri&s;t, would (if po&s;&s;ible) have killed God him&s;elf. And &s;o for the Governors whom he hath &s;et over us and calls his Anointed, the very &s;ame Rebellion that doth depo&s;e and remove the Government off from their Shoulders, becau&s;e it is in Mens power &s;o to do, would likewi&s;e pull down God from Heaven and remove the Government off from his Shoulders if that was in their power al&s;o: For in all the&s;e Ca&s;es the Murmurings and Speeches, the Actions and Doings are not again&s;t the Creature, but again&s;t the Lord, our Creator and our Governor, our Law-giver and our King. Ye &s;hould quarrel not with me his Servant, but with him, becau&s;e he hath given &s;uch Laws to Mankind; but indeed he is di&s;plea&s;ed with you, and will puni&s;h you for not Obeying, keeping and ob&s;erving them, or will ye Arraign his Ju&s;tice and Goodne&s;s in givings Laws to Mankind, to which are annexed &s;uch exceeding great Rewards and Penalties of Eternal Life and Death; and ye &s;ay that they are penned &s;o dark, intricate and ob&s;cure, that ye know not when ye do ob&s;erve them or not: But this is <HI>to utter Error again&s;t the Lord,</HI> I&s;a. 32. 6. which is naturally Con&s;equent when your heart doth work Iniquity and practice Hypocri|&s;ie; for all this hardne&s;s or doubtfulne&s;s doth only come to pa&s;s through the Perplexity and Confu&s;ion of Di&s;obedience or Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion. It is becau&s;e ye do <HI>wickedly, and none of the wicked &s;hall under&s;tand, but the wi&s;e &s;hall under&s;tand,</HI> 12. 10. whereas if ye would <HI>turn from your Iniquities, ye might under&s;tand his truth,</HI> Dan. 9. 13. which ye do not <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">are, but ye are unwilling to do, and therefore like the Slothful and Wicked Servant to ex|cu&s;e your &s;elves ye would think God to be unrighteous, or an hard Ma&s;ter, which he is neither, but ye are Perver&s;e and Di&s;obedient. <HI>The Fool hath &s;aid in his heart there is no God,</HI> P&s;alm 14. 1. But they which are corrupt and have done abominable Works, the Wicked, Di&s;obedient and Hypocrite, do wi&s;h and de&s;ire that there was no God, and they would not have God Reign over them. In the Language of <HI>Mo&s;es, David</HI> and <HI>I&s;aiah,</HI> they are called <HI>Rebels:</HI> which is a very fit and proper term for them. So <HI>Samuel</HI> told <HI>Saul</HI> the King, That <HI>Rebellion is as the &s;in of Witchcraft, and Stubbornne&s;s is as Iniquity and Ido|latry,</HI> 1 Sam. 15. 23. and this is Rebellion again&s;t God, the very Sin of tho&s;e called our Kings and Rulers at this day; And becau&s;e the&s;e have al&s;o rejected the Word of the Lord, I pray God to fulfil the other part of the Sentence upon them, the Lord will reject and ca&s;t off the &s;ame Per&s;ons from being Kings or Rulers over us: for they that would have others do according to their Laws, Commands and Orders, them&s;elves &s;hould al&s;o do according to the Laws, Precepts and Commandments of the mo&s;t High God.</P>
<P>Here it is to be ob&s;erved, that though God had rejected <HI>Saul</HI> from that day forward in which <HI>Samuel</HI> &s;peak thus, yet he afterwards continued King over all <HI>I&s;rael</HI> until he was &s;lain in the Battel again&s;t the <HI>Phili&s;tines.</HI> In like manner, Tho&s;e at this day may as yet remain upon the outward Thro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e, though they are di&s;allowed of God; and it is his Mind and Purpo&s;e that they &s;hould not be &s;etled and e&s;tabli&s;hed here.</P>
<P>All this forementioned is no Enthu&s;ia<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ic or &s;trange Conceit, which may be tauntingly &s;aid to be proper for the Notions of <HI>Bethle<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">em Ho&s;pital;</HI> But it brings out the very nature of Sin, that it may appear exceeding &s;inful, according as it is al&s;o expre&s;&s;ed in the Books and Sermons of Sober and Under&s;tanding Divines. And hereby may be &s;omewhat perceived of the Ju&s;tice of God in inflicting an exceeding and Eternal Puni&s;hment for what is called light and tran&s;itory Offences.
<PB N="7" REF="11"> But to return to our Subject and intended Matter, I did in that Letter &s;uper&s;cribed to the E. of <HI>N.</HI> Chief Secretary of State, but within directed to the pre&s;ent King <HI>William,</HI> put him in mind, and al&s;o de&s;ire him, that I might be brought down before him to &s;peak or read ma|ny more words unto him. And if he was fearful or apprehen&s;ive lea&s;t I &s;hould do them any hurt, then let him order my Hands to be bound and my Feet to be put into Fetters But as the Lord liveth, who gave to him and my &s;elf Life and Being, I would not &s;o much as in|jure his outward Skin, the Hairs of his Head, neither would I touch the Skirt of his Clothing; For Truth breaks no Bones, it doth only trouble in order to the &s;aving of the Soul. I &s;up|po&s;e that this my Propo&s;al and De&s;ire, was either not made known unto him, or he would not con&s;ent unto it; knowing that if I did &s;peak words into his Ears I &s;hould torment him before his time. For as the Devil &s;aid &s;o unto Chri&s;t, who was the Word of God; &s;o at this Day the Word of God hath the &s;ame and like effect upon the Hearts of the Di&s;obedient, which are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with the Spirit of the Evil One, for this makes them Di&s;obedient and Wicked, for the Word of God is quick and powerful, and &s;harper than a two edged Sword, p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ercing even to the dividing a &s;under of Soul and Spirit, and is a di&s;cerner of the Thoughts and Intents of the Heart: So that it will vex and torture the Man, or el&s;e actually bring him to Repentance. It hath con&s;tantly this Effect where it is truly and powerfully Preach|ed (as that is &s;eldom in the&s;e days) for it doth work an holy Violence upon Men and Wo|men, as to cau&s;e them to give up their ill&punc; gotten Goods. <HI>Many al&s;o of them which u&s;ed curious Arts, brought their Books together, and burnt them before all Men. So mightily gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Word of God and prevailed,</HI> Acts 19. 19, 20. So as to them which u&s;e &s;inful, evil and indirect Arts in other things, where the <HI>Word of God</HI> is throughly made known unto &s;uch, and <HI>Prevails</HI> over their Con&s;ciences, it doth make them for&s;ake all tho&s;e &s;inful and wrong ways and means: And it works them into &s;uch a Condition, that they <HI>come tremb|ling to know what they mu&s;t do to be &s;aved.</HI></P>
<P>In like Manner where a common Per&s;on <HI>gets Riches and not by Right,</HI> the Spirit &s;aith ex|pre&s;ly, <HI>He &s;hall leave them in the mid&s;t of his days, and at his End &s;hall be a Fool,</HI> Jer. 17. 11. That is in the mid&s;t of Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion and Enjoyment, He &s;hall have no true comfort of them, and at la&s;t he &s;hall lo&s;e <HI>Heaven.</HI> Now there is no Folly to be compared to the lo&s;ing of <HI>Heaven,</HI> though it be for &s;ome hundreds or thou&s;ands of Pounds, which then are Slipped away from him again, where a great Per&s;on (whom the corrupt World doth Re|&s;pect, and hath in <HI>Admiration becau&s;e of Advantage,</HI> but God will not excu&s;e him who comes to <HI>great Revenues without Right,</HI> &s;eems to be a reaching out the Hand, and taking and gra&s;ping of it by Violence, when they &s;hould not do it, but yet they do it, <HI>Becau&s;e it is in the power of their hand,</HI> Micah 2. 1. (I had a more lively Repre&s;entation of this in my Mind, than I can now expre&s;s it forth in words when I heard that the <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Who is &s;o be|cau&s;e He is in Admini&s;tration of the Regal Au|thority.</NOTE> King had &s;eized the Seven Bi&s;hops Revenues: <HI>So they oppre&s;s</HI> (or defraud) <HI>a Man and his Hou&s;e, even a Man and his Heritage,</HI> Micah 2. 2.) And where is it done by a colour of Law and Authority; this indeed doth de|ceive the Ignorant, when wi&s;e and knowing Men do more abominate and loath it; much more will the All-wi&s;e God hate and proceed again&s;t it, <HI>for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and by him Actions are weighed,</HI> 1 Sam. 2. 3. And when they are weighed in the <HI>Ba<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lance of the Sanctuary,</HI> and con&s;idered out of the <HI>Book of the Lord,</HI> and al&s;o from the Nature and la&s;t end of things, with that abundant Rea&s;oning which ari&s;es and flows from the&s;e &s;everal Topicks: All this will make it plain and evidently appear to the Heart of Man, that <HI>Better is a little with Righteou&s;ne&s;s, than great Revenues without Right:</HI> So that the Man will choo&s;e it accordingly; for by &s;o doing He will be more Happy now and hereafter.</P>
<P>After the very &s;ame manner you may conceive of that which is called <HI>Government</HI> or <HI>Au|thority without Right;</HI> it is not properly <HI>Government</HI> but <HI>&V;&s;urpation,</HI> when another takes that upon him which doth not belong or appertain to him, and then <HI>He doth lift up him&s;elf above the Congregation of the Lord,</HI> Numbers 16. 3. above his Brethren and Fellow-Crea|tures. And &s;o even a Lawful Governour may <HI>&V;&s;urp,</HI> when He <HI>takes too much upon him,</HI> v. 7. for both the&s;e kinds of <HI>&V;&s;urpation</HI> we learn from this two-fold Saying of <HI>Korah</HI> and his Re|bellious Accomplices, had that b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">n true which they fal&s;ly object unto <HI>Mo&s;es.</HI> So again, this is not <HI>Authority,</HI> for this &s;uppo&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> what is Lawful, but if it is not, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> it may <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e more
<PB N="8" REF="5"> properly &s;tiled Power or Publick Force; which is kept up by the Admini&s;tration and Exer|ci&s;e thereof; and it <HI>Grows &s;tronger and &s;tronger</HI> where it doth Oppre&s;s and Cru&s;h, and it be &s;ure to prevail. But if it be once contradicted with true A&s;&s;ertions, and this is made known and &s;tands its Ground, then it is foiled (&s;everal whereof make a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">all) and it grows <HI>weaker and weaker,</HI> and &s;ucce&s;&s;ive Acts hereof will <HI>&s;o <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">und i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"></HI> by the <HI>Words of Gods Truth and Rig<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">teou&s;n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;s,</HI> that it <HI>&s;hall no<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> able to ri&s;e but fall und<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> our feet,</HI> P&s;al. 18. 38. But where this Power and Force doth keep the upper hand, an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> things are &s;o done, whereof no better Rea&s;on can well be given, but only becau&s;e they actually are, and can &s;o be done, this may be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">itly re&s;embled to a <HI>company of R<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">bbe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s or armed Men.</HI> (And &s;o where we read of a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Army going into another's Country to gather Contributions, it is it: Truth a great <HI>Robbe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">,</HI> and a multitude of Men that do <HI>St<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">l;</HI> which is again&s;t the expre&s;s Command of God; but &s;o far doth Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion prevail an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> reign over the Face of the whole Earth, that the Relation thereof is made publick and it &s;eems allowable, of good Report and honorable Atchievement) who can take away what they will from weak and de&s;encele&s;s Creatures. This the fir&s;t do by Force and Compul&s;ion which they mu&s;t yield unto, lea&s;t further they be made Captives, Slaves or Pri&s;oners, and &s;o be girt or killed. Now becau&s;e this State and kind of Acting is not loved or approved by the Rea&s;on of Mankind, therefore to impo&s;e upon and delude <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> there are cho&s;en out the more knowing Men (who are acted by <HI>Reward,</HI> for this is &s;omewhat more than <HI>Hire)</HI> and the&s;e do lay a&s;ide the Habiliments of War and Force, and they do Ap<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> things in a way of <HI>Law</HI> and Judiciary Proceeding Here again like Ambitious <HI>Ab&s;alom,</HI> in <HI>Mat|ters that are G<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">od and Right,</HI> in a private Cau&s;e between Man and Man, wherein the Publick (for &s;o they call them&s;elves by rea&s;on of their Multitude) is nothing intere&s;ted or concerned, they will indeed do true Ju&s;tice; for hereby they do the more cover and get Reputation for their unju&s;t and <HI>unlawful Deeds;</HI> and &s;o they glo&s;s and &s;mooth the thing over by &s;ome pl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">|&s;ible Saying or Expre&s;&s;ions, which though they are not true, yet they are <HI>Veri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">a,</HI> they have a likene&s;s to <HI>Truth;</HI> and &s;o (like bitter Gilded Pills) are &s;wallowed down whole for Truth by the Ignorant and Credulous Multitude, who&s;e Nature is, greedily and ha&s;tily to catch in and receive the thing. The Multitude hath been <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">itly termed <HI>Bellua Multorum Capitum,</HI> and it is of that kind of Bea&s;ts which doth <HI>neither chew the Cud nor divide the Hoof;</HI> for they neither con&s;ider throughly the Nature of things, nor do they put a difference between Good and Evil, Truth and Fal&s;hood, Right and Wrong And &s;o it here comes to pa&s;s, that the Simple <HI>believeth every Word, when a Man of under&s;tanding &s;earcheth out the Matter.</HI> And <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> he be a Good Man al&s;o, he doth conceive the more Zeal and Indignation again&s;t it, as the more Sin and Evil is wrapped up interwoven and cunningly conceals therein As much as God doth exceed the Goodne&s;s, Knowledge and Wi&s;dom of the Creature, which is more than the whole Ocean to a &s;ingle drop of Water; &s;o he hath a proportionable Di&s;plea&s;ure again&s;t <HI>Secr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Sins and Iniquities:</HI> Which as he doth now <HI>&s;et in the light of his Countenan<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">,</HI> P&s;al. 90. 8. So in his appointed time <HI>He will manife&s;t the Coun&s;els of the Heart,</HI> and <HI>bring o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> the hidden <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ngs of Di&s;hone&s;ty,</HI> and the mo&s;t clo&s;e Acts of Hypocri&s;ie; and then they &s;hall have Puni&s;hment accordingly.</P>
<P>But this Puni&s;hment is not pre&s;ently executed; for, who hath ever felt it? And who doth under|&s;tand what it is? Yet there are Terrors and Remor&s;es of Con&s;cience, and a fearful Expectation of wor&s;e things to come, all which are in deed &s;en&s;ible. We do believe that which is revealed, a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> when a Conviction (which implies a knowledge of the&s;e things, and an A&s;&s;ent of the Mind that it is &s;o) is wrought, then the <HI>Word of God</HI> hath its due Effect. <HI>Who knoweth the Power of thine <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> even according to thy Fear &s;o is thy Wrath,</HI> P&s;alm 90. 11. People do harden and &s;hut them&s;elves <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">p again&s;t the Sen&s;e thereof; but when it &s;hall once enter within them, <HI>when the Powers of the World to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> &s;hall break into their Minds (which the Devil hinders as much as he can) all this will make them afraid, and enforce them to do any thing to be reconciled with an Angry and Di&s;plea&s;ed God&punc; And &s;o becau&s;e that <HI>Wrath which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">overs over the dw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lling <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">ce of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e Unrighteous,</HI> yea, over the very <HI>H<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span">,</HI> P&s;alm 63. 11. is not altogether &s;o vi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ib<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e as a <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Sw<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d</HI> or <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ow</HI> p<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">inted at them (which al&s;o do no hurt at pre&s;ent, until it is laid on or di&s;charged) and &s;o is God prepared for Puni&s;hment, which he can as ea&s;ily inflict as we can <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Moth; for he takes away their Breath and they die, and then his Sentence is executed upon the Evil Doers. And therefore it may be ob&s;erved throughout the whole Scripture, the Puni&s;hment of God is &s;poken of in the future, He <HI>will</HI> or <HI>&s;hall</HI> puni&s;h neverthele&s;s becau&s;e his <HI>Wrath</HI> is not &s;een, it is not &s;o &s;en&s;ible even to the <HI>Children and Ve&s;&s;els of Wrath:</HI> Still it is real and intelligible, that is, to be under|&s;tood, as they &s;hall know and feel upon a dying Bed, when all the Methods of hardening do fail, then it is &s;en&s;ible and perceived from within.: Then Con&s;cience doth accu&s;e of Sin, and fore&s;hew of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">
<PB N="9" REF="5"> ment to come. Now it would do the &s;ame in the mid&s;t of Health and Life as upon a Death-bed; but heretofore Stupe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">actions, Delu&s;ions and Hindrances were &s;ought after which fail at the la&s;t time; and al&s;o they approach nearer unto God, &s;o that they dare not quench his Spirit as in times pa&s;t. Then they would not receive God and the Truth of his Word into their Knowledge; but what they did apprehend of God, was in a general and confu&s;ed way; and what they did know concerning his word, that was a <HI>wre&s;ting of the Scriptures to their own De&s;truction;</HI> Or rather like the <HI>Jews</HI> and <HI>Rulers</HI> of old, <HI>Acts</HI> 13. 27. <HI>Becau&s;e they know not God&punc; nor the V<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ce of his Word read every Sabbath and Week-day.</HI> They have by &s;inning again&s;t God fulfilled his Word to their own Condemnation. But if his <HI>Wrath</HI> did once enter within the vail of their Heart (which <HI>Va<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">l</HI> is made up of Sin and Ignorance) then is that al&s;o fulfilled, <HI>By thy Wrath we are troubled,</HI> P&s;. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">0. 7. even at the Manife&s;tation and Revelation thereof, &s;o that they would not be at Re&s;t and Quiet until they did cea&s;e from that Unrighteou&s;ne&s;s to which this Wrath is annexed. And what Knowledge thereof God hath been plea&s;ed to &s;hew unto me his Ser|vant, if I had been or might yet be &s;uffered to &s;peak and declare it audibly, di&s;tinctly and deliberately before and unto him, it would turn the Governour to the <HI>Faith</HI> and Belief thereof, which would work &s;o far, that he would actually and indeed come to Repentance and Re&s;titution. By the <HI>Words of Gods Truth</HI> I &s;hould actually per&s;wade him to give up that Kingdom (which contains Riches, Honor and Power) unto him who&s;e Right it is; which he unduly took away by Force, Subtlety, Wrong and Fal&s;hood.</P>
<P>But here again the <HI>Pride of Heart</HI> doth &s;truggle, That <HI>it would not be for his Honour</HI> and Credit to be &s;o ea&s;ily per&s;waded out of Three Kingdoms (one whereof he <HI>got by the Sword)</HI> by a Cripple, Beggar, Mad Per&s;on, a &s;trange look'd Fellow <HI>(who&s;e Vi&s;age is marred more than other Men)</HI> and in a word, by him who hath undergone almo&s;t all the Indecencies and Shame that are incidental to Humane Nature, Whereas <HI>it is not I, but the Grace and Truth of God which appear forth through me,</HI> which is <HI>able,</HI> and al&s;o will (if trial be but once had) do all this here &s;poken of. And how know we, but in very deed for this cau&s;e hath God rai&s;ed him up for to &s;hew in him the Power of his <HI>Word</HI> and <HI>Truth,</HI> which can and al&s;o will <HI>bring this Stranger down,</HI> I&s;a. 25. 5. &amp; 26. 5. from that State (into which he is <HI>as yet exalted)</HI> into that Station he was in before; and <HI>that the Name of God may be declared throughout all Europe,</HI> and that his <HI>Truth</HI> may be manife&s;ted and cleared throughout all the <HI>Reformed Churches thereof,</HI> as it hath been delivered, and all along a&s;&s;erted by me his unworthy In&s;trument. The Devil did at fir&s;t tempt him to this Sin and Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, by promi&s;ing him more Happine&s;s, Good and Plea&s;ure, but now having had experience of it, <HI>He is wearied in the greatne&s;s of his way,</HI> and he knows and is &s;en&s;ible that he did before live as Happily as now, and that all his Devices which he hath brought to pa&s;s, are not worth the expo&s;ing him&s;elf to &s;o much Sin and Danger as he hath done; and he would as ea&s;ily give it all up for the real Contentment he doth find it to yield <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> But then the &s;ame Tempter doth continue him &s;till in the &s;ame Sin and Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion by &s;uch and &s;uch Thoughts or Devices. Plea&s;ure and Pain are the Hinge upon which all our Actions turn; and as with De&s;ire of the fir&s;t he was led into this Tran&s;|gre&s;&s;ion, &s;o he being now filled, &s;urfeited and wearied with that, his Soul is now become Re&s;tle&s;s: Yet he is afraid to <HI>cea&s;e, turn from,</HI> and to <HI>put away the Evil of his doings, for fear</HI> of Pain and Incon|venience, as of Temporal Death or Di&s;grace: Which la&s;t &s;eems to be &s;omewhat the more, becau&s;e of the <HI>Pro&s;perity of his Arms,</HI> and he hath &s;uch a va&s;t Multitude of People of all Ranks and Degrees of his &s;ide. Which again is the more increa&s;ed by rea&s;on of &s;uch an one his Oppo&s;ite; whom, if the People have not altogether <HI>hated without a cau&s;e,</HI> yet &s;ure I am, <HI>They have ca&s;t Iniquity upon him, and in Wrath they have hated him,</HI> more than there is Truth and real cau&s;e for. There are many li<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e Thoughts in the Heart of the Pre&s;ent Governour, whereunto I or the Reader may give a &s;atis|factory An&s;wer as they do ari&s;e</P>
<P>But as for his being afraid lea&s;t his Father-in-Law &s;hould put him to Death for Rebellion and Trea&s;on, I my &s;elf have propo&s;ed that way in <HI>Page</HI> 12. of my Reprinted Book, Entituled, <HI>Things Plain and Weighty,</HI> &amp;c. That our Rightful King be Re&s;tored and admitted upon the&s;e Terms, That the mo&s;t General Act of Oblivion and Indemnity might pa&s;s, without any Exception to any manner of Per&s;on what&s;oever, and not &s;o much as <HI>One Man be put to Death;</HI> and I my &s;elf (by rea&s;on of who&s;e publi&s;hing of Truth he doth the more fear) will therefore &s;tand Ho&s;tage or <HI>Guarranty</HI> for him, or his Friends, to an&s;wer <HI>Body for Body, Life for Life, Member for Member,</HI> &s;o to procure and effect it, that there &s;hall not be the lea&s;t harm done to his outward Per&s;on. But only he &s;hall be in <HI>Stata Quo,</HI> with all the Advantages he was in before, his Debts and the Charge of his Expedition paid; either to return into <HI>Holland,</HI> or to live at <HI>Ken&s;ington,</HI> and none &s;hall mole&s;t or hurt him.</P>
<P>Indeed this thing of Temporal Death is very Terrible unto a Man that hath led a &s;inful Life, to fall by a violent and &s;hameful way, and then to appear before God, unto whom he mu&s;t give account for all the Actions of his pa&s;t Life; and then to have a final irrever&s;ible Sentence pa&s;s upon him of eternal Ble&s;&s;ing or Condemnation. So that Men had rather (though it is with the Addition of more Sin and Guilt, go on towards the day until they come to die, <HI>or de&s;cend into Battel and Peri&s;h,</HI> not con&s;i|dering that then al&s;o there mu&s;t be the &s;ame, yea, and wor&s;e account to be given, by rea&s;on of more Sin committed, and longer Impenitency; which is <HI>Trea&s;uring up Wrath again&s;t the day of Wrath,</HI> and involving them&s;elves into more Stripes and greater Mi&s;ery: For if it &s;hould be &s;o as here &s;urmi&s;ed, it is better to truly and un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">eignedly Repent of Sin, and venture the Temporal Danger here &s;uppo&s;ed, than to live longer only to di&s;obey and provoke God the more.</P>
<P>But thou (who art as yet called King <HI>William)</HI> &s;halt be as much a&s;&s;ured and a&s;certained, as that thou now Live&s;t and Breathe&s;t, that thy mo&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ull Pardon &s;hall be had. And if thou do&s;t further doubt
<PB N="10" REF="6"> thereof, to make things as &s;ure as po&s;&s;ible, thou maye&s;t, with the Forces under thy Command, remove into <HI>Holland,</HI> or into &s;ome di&s;tant Parts of this I&s;land, until thou ha&s;t his Word ratified into a Law, that all things &s;hall be done according to thy rea&s;onable De&s;ire, and agreeable to this Great Time which is now drawing on, <HI>Of the Reconciliation of all Things;</HI> for <HI>Like Prince like People,</HI> this is what hinders them al&s;o from returning to their <HI>Due Allegiance unto their Rightful King.</HI> They have acted &s;o many things again&s;t him, that they are afraid, if he &s;hould be again in&s;tated and put into the Actual Admini&s;tration of the <HI>Regal Power, Office and Authority,</HI> that he would be Revenged on them, and pr<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ce<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d to Puni&s;hment which may extend to Life, Member or E&s;tate; but none of them &s;hall &s;uffer in the lea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> and they are Adver&s;aries to the King Who Dicta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">e otherwi&s;e) which thing mu&s;t be included as a great, nece&s;&s;ary and e&s;&s;ential Term of his <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 words">;</HI> and this mu&s;t be made as &s;ure, firm an<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> rati<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="4 letters"> unto them, as any thing in the World can be.</P>
<P>N<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, it &s;hall be made much more &s;ure than now it is, that they &s;hall not lo&s;e their Lives and E&s;tates in oppo&s;ing a Powerful Forreign Enemy, whom they have made to be their <HI>Enemy,</HI> and they have provoked and drawn him in upon them&s;elves. It they will now (before the <HI>more &s;evere Decree come forth</HI> yield unto and accept of the&s;e Terms of Mercy and Reconciliation, it &s;hall be made more cer|tain unto them that they &s;hall be every one forgiven for whatever they have done in this Matter; then now they have fal&s;e rea&s;on to think that <HI>they &s;hall e&s;cape by Iniquity;</HI> that is, by making the <HI>Government</HI> (as they call it) as &s;ecure and &s;trong as ever they can, by Impri&s;oning, Oppre&s;&s;ing and Cau&s;hing of all its <HI>Enemies;</HI> of whom many are <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> to God</HI> by being Zealous for his law and for its Superiority over all their Ordinances and Con&s;titutions; and al&s;o they do whatever God and Chri&s;t hath commanded. But here it comes to pa&s;s, that as <HI>the Friend&s;hip of the World is Enmity to God;</HI> &s;o here whom God vouch&s;afes to call his <HI>Friends,</HI> the Corrupt World doth term its <HI>Enemies.</HI> But <HI>the Lord will enter into Judgment with the Antients of the People, and with the Princes thereof</HI> (and he doth at this day &s;peak the &s;ame unto <HI>England) What mean ye that ye beat my People to pie<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s, &s;aith the Lord God of Ho&s;ts,</HI> I&s;a. 3. 14, 15. they are your Fellow-Creatures; but notwith&s;tanding God &s;aith &s;o in his Word, ye go on and continue neverthele&s;s to do it: Which being contrary to his revealed Will, it doth thus become Sin and Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion unto you, and it draws on more Di&s;plea&s;ure of God upon your &s;elves.</P>
<P>That Que&s;tion, <HI>Shall they e&s;cape by Iniquity,</HI> P&s;al. 56. 7. implies a certain Negative, that they &s;hall not e&s;cape, as may be yet more under&s;tood from what is afterwards &s;aid and implied, <HI>In thine Ang<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">r <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;t down the People O God.</HI> They do day by day die &s;everally in their Sin, Tre&s;pa&s;s, Iniquity and Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion. And be&s;ides, it is imported that God will do according to his Method and working of Old; whereof he doth not &s;peak Plainly, but he doth &s;ufficiently intimate it el&s;ewhere in his Word, how that he will by &s;ome &s;udden unexpected Stroke, bring down and <HI>&s;catter all the&s;e Workers of Iniquity;</HI> and all their Iniquity which they have been &s;o long &s;etting up and endeavoring to &s;tabli&s;h, &s;hall fall to the Ground and come to nothing. There mu&s;t be &s;ome mean time that <HI>their Iniquities may be full</HI> and ripe: As al&s;o this mean, while the longer it is, it will the more prove the Faith, Pati|ence and waiting of his Servants: <HI>For the Workers of Iniquity &s;hall &s;oon be cut down like the Gra&s;s, and wither as the green Herb, for evil do<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">rs &s;hall be cut off, for yet a little while, and the Wicked &s;hall not be, yea, thou &s;halt diligently con&s;ider his place, and it &s;hall not be,</HI> P&s;al. 3<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> 2, 9.</P>
<P>I remember that &s;ome few Years &s;ince, when <HI>I te&s;tified to my Fathers Hou&s;e,</HI> again&s;t &s;ome parti|cular Sins and Tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions they did then live in the Practice of, that immediately after I had done &s;o, he or they did conceive a greater Degree of Enmity and Hatred (which they did vent forth in Re|proach again&s;t me) and a day or two afterwards they would more eagerly do the &s;ame whereof I did admoni&s;h and reprove them. But in longer proce&s;s of time I did ob&s;erve he did quite leave it off, and he came off by little and hidden Degrees, not to be outwardly perceived, that it &s;hould &s;eem, and per|haps as he would give out (by rea&s;on of the <HI>Pride of Life</HI> remaining) that it &s;hould not be the effect of my Preaching and or Per&s;ua&s;ion (as they did tauntingly object, when neither then nor now did I &s;peak <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ny thing of my &s;elf but from Gods Word only) but &s;ome other Cau&s;e or Rea&s;on; whereas God will more particularly rehear&s;e it, how they did at length refrain for fear they &s;hould come to that <HI>place of Torment</HI> I did warn them of. This Relation may &s;eem &s;omewhat trivial, but as God was plea&s;ed then to ble&s;s my Mini&s;try, &s;o he doth now give me the &s;ame hope, that in this great matter I am now engaged in, of being called out from converting a &s;ingle Family or Pari&s;h, to &s;eek and endeavor to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> a whole Nation from Iniquity unto Righteou&s;ne&s;s: And I now contending earne&s;tly that Gods Law<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;hould have the Superiority over theirs, and take place before them, though now by the Force and A&s;&s;emblies of Violent Men, they have ca&s;t me the&s;e four times into Pri&s;on; yet I tru&s;t &s;till (though perhaps they may come over by the like Method) that <HI>God will deliver me from the Strivings of the People,</HI> and that this Nation will yet <HI>obey the Voice of the Word of God,</HI> in Te&s;timony whereof I have <HI>hazarded my Life:</HI> And now this <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">a&s;t time they detaining me in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> longer than ever they did yet, this doth open unto me another glimp&s;e of Light to my former A&s;&s;urance, that this thing will be more certainly effected, according as I have &s;poken and exhorted from the Mighty and Powerful <HI>Word of God.</HI> And that I &s;hall not all along, as to my &s;elf, <HI>bring <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> for trouble,</HI> and only to leave our Rulers <HI>without Excu&s;e</HI> and to aggravate their Si<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. But He that <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> hitherto, &s;hall be at la&s;t <HI>taken out of the way.</HI> And they will be brought to hearken unto, and comply with tho&s;e Laws of their God, which I have &s;et before them; and then both the inward Enmity and outward Per&s;ecution again&s;t me will be al&s;o done away; and perhaps this la&s;t will not <HI>utterly</HI> cea&s;e, until the
<PB N="11" REF="6"> other be fully accompli&s;hed. <HI>Even &s;o God grant it. Amen. I will cry unto God mo&s;t High, unto God that performeth all things for me,</HI> P&s;alm 57. 2. <HI>The Lord will perfect that which concerneth m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">: Thy Mercy, O Lord, endureth for ever: For&s;ak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> not the Work of thine own hands,</HI> P&s;alm 138. 8.</P>
<P>But as to the Men of this World, it is a &s;ad and mi&s;erable thing, when they are once dipt, involved, yea, and plunged all over into Sin; they are as it were in a Labyrinth or Maze, from which they know not how to get out; they are intangled in the <HI>Wilderne&s;s,</HI> and though the Thorns do &s;cratch and tear and are very trouble&s;ome, yet they prick farther and cla&s;p more about; ju&s;t &s;uch is the Con|dition of <HI>Silly People laden with Sins.</HI> This Epithet is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ly ad led, for unle&s;s they had been <HI>Fooli&s;h</HI> and <HI>Deceived,</HI> they had never been <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> with Sins;</HI> for &s;o fooli&s;h ugly and hateful is <HI>Sin,</HI> that when it i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> repre&s;ented according to its real Nature, the Words and Di&s;cour&s;e (which like a Picture to the Bodily Sen&s;es, &s;o this &s;hews it unto the Eyes of the Under&s;tanding) do al&s;o &s;eem Fooli&s;h Ugly and Hateful, <HI>For he <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> him&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">lf in his own Eyes, until his Iniquity is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ound to be hateful,</HI> P&s;al 36. 2. But if you come either to the &s;everal Per&s;ons who commit the &s;ame, or to the <HI>&s;inful Nation, a People laden with Iniquity, a S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">d of evil doers Children that are Corrupters; They have for&s;aken the Lord; They have provoked the Holy one of</HI> I&s;rael <HI>to Anger; They are gone away backwards,</HI> I&s;a. 1. 4. (all this is <HI>Eng<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 span"></HI> at this day) and exhort them to come over again unto God, and to turn from <HI>Iniquity</HI> unto <HI>Righteou&s;ne&s;s,</HI> endeavour to bring them into Subjection unto his whole Land, and to do all things exactly <HI>according to the Pattern &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">wed in his Word.</HI> If thou do&s;t once begin to do all this, <HI>Briers and Thorne will be with thee, and thou wilt dwell among Scorpio<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s,</HI> Ezek. 2. 6. which will hinder and prick and hurt; &s;o for the two la&s;t Qualities, it is like falling among a Ne&s;t of Wa&s;ps, for be&s;ides the Mi&s;chief and Hart they will do, there is &s;uch a Buzzing of the&s;e two-footed Worms, they keep &s;uch a Humming and noi&s;e with their <HI>Words,</HI> with their &s;everal Sayings (which is but a <HI>Contradiction of Sinners)</HI> that it is all but a confu&s;ed Imagination or deceitful Fal&s;hood, without one Sentence of clear Rea&s;on or manife&s;t certain Truth. Sin doth &s;pread like a Leapro&s;ie, and it doth corrupt the Under&s;tanding after it hath prevailed over the Will. But when the Will hath committed the Sin, then Con&s;cience doth begin to accu&s;e thereof, and there do ari&s;e &s;o many Fears, that the Sinner is become like one walking upon brittle Ice, who is afraid at every &s;tep, &s;o he Trembles and knows not what to do; for <HI>F<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">r is the be|traying of tho&s;e Succors which Rea&s;on offers.</HI> It making the Poor Man even to &s;u&s;pect and al&s;o to re|frain from that which indeed would &s;hew him the only Good, True and Right way for his Safety and Pre&s;ervation.</P>
<P>As for that <HI>Great Multitude</HI> wherein Man is apt to place &s;o great Confidence, and to rely &s;o much on, indeed it is &s;omewhat where Force is to be confronted unto Force, though many times in Battel the greater Number do not get the Victory. But what &s;ignifies his <HI>Multitude,</HI> where not &s;o much as one Man &s;hall lift up his Hand again&s;t him. <HI>I do here from the Word of God forbid all People, under the Peril of Damnation</HI> (which will be to all tho&s;e who obey not the Go&s;pel) <HI>never to lift up a hand, much le&s;s to bear Arms or rai&s;e Tumults again&s;t the Pre&s;ent Governour,</HI> though he hath now taken upon him to Rule this Nation before the time it did appertain to him; for no other Contention or Strife ought to be among&s;t the Creatures of God, and in a Chri&s;tian Country, but in <HI>Words</HI> only, &s;ee 2 Sam. 19. 43. for that &s;hould govern the World, and &s;way and determine the Actions of Men, which is mo&s;t agree|able to the Word of God and the very Truth of Things. But then the Pre&s;ent Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;or hath the mo&s;t to talk for him, even eleven Parts in twelve of the People of this Nation. What &s;ignifies that? for five Men who &s;peak words with Knowledge and Under&s;tanding, will avail more than ten thou&s;and of the Ignorant Multitude, for the&s;e like the gaggling o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> Gee&s;e, or chirping of Birds, &s;peak what they have received one from another, and what them&s;elves do not throughly under&s;tand; or they &s;peak forth Fal&s;ehood or Folly, which hath an outward &s;hew of Wi&s;dom and Truth, but in reality it is neither; or they get their Livelihood, or &s;ome Addition to it, by &s;aying after &s;uch a manner, and &s;o they are Bla&s;&s;ed and Corrupt. As likewi&s;e they do &s;o &s;peak and do, if they have any Place of Honor or Credit, whereby they have the more Re&s;pect from their Fellow-Creatures, and are called of Men <HI>Wor&s;hipful,</HI> or they &s;peak after &s;uch a manner becau&s;e they hear the mo&s;t do &s;o; or to be freed from that Op|pre&s;&s;ion and Per&s;ecution whereby a <HI>Man is made an Offender for a word;</HI> for indeed it is more for the Ea&s;e and Safety of the Fle&s;h to go in the <HI>way of the Multitude,</HI> and to do and to <HI>walk according to the cour&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> of this VVorld;</HI> but only, <HI>This is not the Right way to Heaven.</HI></P>
<P>But I would ask the <HI>King</HI> that now is in Po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion; <HI>(who&s;e Heart is lifted up</HI> with that va&s;t Multitude which is for him, and he is apt to fancy Security unto him&s;elf in them; whereas he is floated up with Imaginations only, if he doth repo&s;e in them a real and certain Safety) can any of them &s;everally, or all put together, Pre&s;erve his Breath from going forth, or hold in one Moment longer, after the appointed time, his Spirit from flying out into that place where no Re&s;pect is had to what is &s;o highly valued and e&s;teemed here. Let them pretend what they will to venture their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> and Fortunes for him, to &s;ight up to the Ankles and Ears in Blood and Wounds; yet, <HI>None of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">m <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word">, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> means, Redeem his Bro<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">r, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> give to God a <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> for him; for the Redemption of their Soul is Precious, and it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> for ever,</HI> P&s;alm 4<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">. 7, 8.</P>
<P>The Rea&s;ons why People &s;ight for others are the&s;e following: Either becau&s;e hereby they get their Livelihood, or out of a Mi&s;taken Apprehen<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">ion of Duty or Honour; or they are <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> and con&s;trained &s;o to do: But when all the&s;e are taken away, and the pretended Ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e, Right or Tit<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, is found to be <HI>wrong;</HI> then al&s;o the Fighting People do &s;lide from him, and each Man de&s;ires to be excu&s;ed.
<PB N="12" REF="14"> If the Reader does think this to be a bare Suppo&s;ition of mine own, yet he may al&s;o perceive there is &s;ome Truth intermingled with it; but I am certain that is <HI>nothing but the Truth</HI> which I am now going to alledge and infer. Put the ca&s;e that the <HI>ungodly and deceitful M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n</HI> (for &s;uch he is who will not obey the Law of God, but he doth cover his <HI>unlawful</HI> Deeds with the Cloak of Hypocri&s;ie) <HI>&s;hould not &s;tand in the Judgment,</HI> P&s;alm 1. 5. But i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> he &s;hould be condemned there, and receive the Sen|tence, <HI>Depart ye Cur&s;ed into Everla&s;ting Mi&s;ery.</HI> Is there now one Man among all his Loving Subjects who were &s;o extraordinarily <HI>Zealous for King</HI> William) that will &s;tep out and offer unto God to <HI>ex|change his Soul</HI> for him, that <HI>his Soul &s;hould be in th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> others &s;tead,</HI> to undergo all that ea&s;ele&s;s, end|le&s;s and remedile&s;s Torment for him: Speak now all ye <HI>Princes, Gover<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">rs, Captains, Judges, Trea|&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">rs, Coun&s;ellors, Ju&s;tices of Pea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, Con&s;tables, Bi&s;hops, P<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">&s;ts, Chaplains, Officers</HI> and <HI>Servants,</HI> and all ye <HI>Friends</HI> to the Pre&s;ent Government (who now are &s;o called, and would be &s;o thought) which of we all will do this for him? Let him &s;tand forth and an&s;wer. I &s;uppo&s;e here that every Man will hold his Peace; or if any &s;hould &s;peak out ha&s;tily and boldly, will he yet be as good as his word? or would he have God take him at his word? I trow, there is not any to be found who will <HI>&s;erve King</HI> William <HI>thus far;</HI> Or if there &s;hould, yet God will not accept it. <HI>None of them can by any means <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> his Brother, nor give to God <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> Ran&s;om f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> him.</HI> And that <HI>it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s po&s;&s;ible for a King to be Damn<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">d,</HI> is as &s;ure as Scripture is true, <HI>For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the King it is prepared,</HI> I&s;a. 30. 33. and &s;o you may read <HI>Rev.</HI> 6. 15. what is written concerning <HI>the Kings of the Earth, and the Great M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">, and the Rich M<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">n, and the Mighty Men.</HI></P>
<P>By the like <HI>Words of Truth</HI> (if it would not be too tedious) I could an&s;wer that Objection of Shame Di&s;grace or Contempt, which as yet do hinder the <HI>Governour</HI> from coming to Repentance and Re|&s;titution, only by bringing out the true Nature of things. That the <HI>Shame</HI> is rather in continuing therein, than in <HI>cea&s;ing to do Evil;</HI> and it is Bruti&s;h to refu&s;e it, but it is mo&s;t Rea&s;onable to learn to do well, and here it is al&s;o according to the true Proverb, <HI>Better late than never.</HI> It is better to be liable unto a &s;mall and &s;hort Shame at pre&s;ent (if it &s;hould be &s;o) than to go on in thy own way and Devices till thy Body drops into the Du&s;t, out of which thou &s;halt <HI>awake and ri&s;e up to everla&s;ting Sh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">e and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="3 letters">tempt;</HI> one of the&s;e two thou mu&s;t and &s;halt endure. But I do again te&s;tifie. That it is better to be &s;en&s;ible of a little Trouble and Vexation of Mind now (which will al&s;o at this pre&s;ent time bring forth <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Concerning which &s;ee my B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">k of Happine&s;s, <HI>P.</HI> 166.</NOTE> <HI>Peace and Content|ment of Soul)</HI> than to groan under <HI>the Worm which &s;hall never die.</HI></P>
<P>Whatever other Thoughts do ari&s;e in thy Mind, there be &s;ure to let Knowledge and Rea&s;on have its perfect Work, as to conceive and apprehend the thing throughly and wholly, and then thou &s;halt find an An&s;wer which will be Satisfactory even to thine Immortal and Re&s;tle&s;s Spirit. This will give <HI>Qui|etne&s;s and A&s;&s;urance for ever.</HI> Do but make known <HI>the Thoughts that trouble and terrifie thee,</HI> and God may either by me or &s;ome other of his Servants, &s;hew thee a way, or lay <HI>Wor<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"></HI> before thee, how thou maye&s;t be Comforted, Delivered and Saved both Temporally and Eternally.</P>
<P><HI>Wherefore,</HI> O thou that are called KING, let my Coun&s;el which I give not of my &s;elf, but the Word and law of God &s;aith and commands the &s;ame) <HI>be acceptable <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> thee, and break off thy Sins by Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and thine Iniquities by making Re&s;titution to thy Poor Father-in-Law.</HI> In the publick <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> about four or five Months ago, there was an Example of one who did <HI>Re&s;ign up the Govern|ment:</HI> As this &s;hews that it is po&s;&s;ible, &s;o let what is afore&s;aid make thee Inclinable; yea, and actually do the like unto him who&s;e Right <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">t is, <HI>if it may be a lengthening of thy Tranquility,</HI> Dan. 4. 27. or (according to the Marginal Reading) an Healing of thine Error. I do a&s;&s;ure thee, in the Name of God, and from the Truth of his Revealed Word, That if thou wilt indeed obey, and go according to all the Commandments and Directions thereof, that it will mo&s;t certainly be a lengthening of thy Tranquility, and an Healing of thine Error: But then thou mu&s;t hearken unto and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">omply with the <HI>&s;ame Word</HI> &s;peaking on this wi&s;e, <HI>Turn you, Turn you, and then Iniquity &s;hall not be your Ruine.</HI>
<Q><L>Obey, and thy Soul &s;hall live;</L>
<L>Do well, and thou &s;halt <HI>Fare well,</HI></L></Q></P>
<P>There is no Man (which I know of) who doth more earne&s;tly and un<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">ignedly de&s;ire the <HI>Good</HI> and <HI>Salvation of Mankind</HI> than my &s;elf; for only towards the Accompli&s;hing of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter">s Great End I have written and &s;uffered &s;o much: But if they do &s;till from time to time <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"></HI> and are <HI>Stubborn;</HI> if they do <HI>continually provoke God</HI> and tran&s;gre&s;s his Law (as th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters"> manner o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="2 letters">me is to do it, the more the nearer they come to appear before him) then indeed my Compa&s;&s;ion doth begin to wear off; for then it is coming towards that, <HI>The Righteous &s;hall rejoyce when he &s;eeth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="apex" EXTENT="1 word"> Vengeance,</HI> P&s;al. 58. 10. for I know and a&s;&s;uredly believe, and do thereby give warning, that God, who is <HI>Holy and True,</HI> will Judge all the Inhabitants of the Earth; And <HI>He will puni&s;h the world for their Evil, and the wicked for their Iniquity.</HI></P>
<CLOSER>To God only wi&s;e be Glory, through Je&s;us Chri&s;t for ever, Amen.</CLOSER>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>All the aforementioned Words were written by me <HI>Richard Stafford</HI> Pri&s;oner in <HI>Beth|lehem</HI> Ho&s;pital,</SIGNED> <DATELINE><DATE>and fini&s;hed on <HI>Decem.</HI> 11 1691. but Printed on <HI>January</HI> 7. 1692.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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