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A61223 Some more sayings of Richard Stafford, a prisoner in Bethleham Hospital in Moor-fields. Part II Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703. 1691 (1691) Wing S5136; ESTC R13493 6,178 4

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Some more SAYINGS of Richard Stafford a Prisoner in Bethlehem Hospital in Moor-fields Part II. THe last Paper was dispatched in Haste which must be my constant Excuse for all my lesser Neglects or Faults in those my Words which shall come forth out of this House of Bondage and Oppression by reason whereof this immediately following was omitted which is now published with more Sayings to be annexed thereunto 11 IN Page 2. Number 4. Where it is said They must do so for the Necessity of Government Read farther as their own Phrase is but in greater Propriety of Speech They must do so and much ado they have to uphold a Wrong Vsurpation for that is always yea and infinitely more Cruel and Oppressive than a Rightful Government This last doth not stand in need of Evil Means to Support it but however in no case is there a Necessity to Sin Ibidem Where it is said They will not comply with him in any Sin or Error Read farther Though they would perform and yield unto him the utmost Faithfulness and Subjection in all Lawful and Honest Things In Page 3. Number 7. Because I have not sufficiently explained my self what I mean when I say According as I have gathered from the thirty seventh and fifty second Chapters of Jeremiah therefore these following Words are to be there understood and annexed viz. There is a real Danger that the French and Irish now with them will yet Invade and make a Conquest over this Nation for though ye had Smitten the whole Army of Chaldeans which fought against you and there remained but Wounded Men among them yet should they rise up every Man in his Tent and burn this City with Fire Jer. 37.10 And so may they here spoken of lay this Country Desolate for the Judgments of God are alike against all Persons Times and Places which commit the like Offence Now the Sin which brought this upon Judea was Despising and Falsification of the Oath of God the same hath England been guilty of at this day So that the same or like Consequent is to be feared And though four hundred times an hundred of the Bishops and Clergy with the Men pleasing Pastors and Teachers who partake or consent with the Deed of them do Prophesie contrary or otherwise with one consent They say Peace and Safety they preach up Deliverance and as if all the Danger was over yet more is to be understood from that and from the following Scriptures of Truth there recited at length than from the Conjecture or Observation of all Men living if they were never so Holy or Knowing and yet much less is to be allowed to the Blind Conceits and Dark Imaginations of Sinners and Transgressors of other corrupt Men. 12. It may be observed that our present Rulers and Politicians Magistrates and Officers do very carefully and cautiously avoid to mention the Name of King James either in their Publick Consultations and Constitutions Palaces Courts of Judicatory the Gazette published by Authority and such like where we might expect to hear somewhat of him But he is almost forgotten as a dead Man out of mind and he is like a broken Vessel The reason hereof I conceive to be least it should bring their Sin to remembrance which would be troublesome and disquieting and also least they should put the People in mind by naming of him too much to return to their due Allegi●●…e In some of our Law Books the King is called Sponsus Populi for then peradventure they might say We will go and return to our first King and Husband for then was it better with us than now Hos 2-7 Least which they most of all fear his Lords and Counsellors should seek unto him that he may be again established in his Kingdom 13. It is necessary for them who would make a Righteous Accommodation or an Honorable Peace to keep the Sword still in their Hand and to make Preparations for War even whilst Overtures and Treaties of Peace may be proposed and agreed unto Which is the best Reason for Raising such Taxes see Dan. 11.20 and giving such large Supplies at this time for the Wisdom of an English Parliament doth not amount much higher than a matter of Money and some general confused Notions of the State of the Nation is the utmost which they are employed in some have either a Place or a Dependence or Expectation from the Court and so they can bestow more Liberally for themselves and others in that they have more coming in than they give out of their own Bags and Treasures these are byass'd and there be who have a Command and Influence over particular men so that few are wholly uninteressed But the Generality do now think it necessary to give yearly a third fourth fifth or sixth part of their Income to preserve the whole Estate and Inheritance to them and their Posterity for evermore And with this specious Reason they do content the Minds of the Multitude But what if this should prove False and it should so come to pass that they who used evil and wrong Means to save their Lives and Estates should at length lose both their Lives and Estates by first of all provoking and by now drawing in upon them a Forreign and Powerful Enemy The first Occasion and Original Cause should be looked and searched into and if they are of this Mind which indeed is not to be blamed for every one to endeavor to preserve his own then they should have throughly considered what perhaps they did not so much as slightly think of How in the late Revolution about three Years ago they did at once strike at all the Statute and Common Laws of this Kingdom which are said to be vested in Scinio Regis And farther They did unhinge those very Laws which do give and adjust to themselves their own respective Honors and Estates and establish Property And therefore Better late than never they would do well even yet to lift the right Door again upon the Hinges But if ye are resolved still to stand by the King whom ye have chosen and set over your selves ye may find it written And the Bramble said unto the Trees If in truth ye make me King over you then come and put your trust in my shadow Judges 9.15 Now what kind of Trust is to be had to the Shadow of a Bramble For besides That it pricks and fetches off the Wool yea and it will tear the Flesh if it comes so far It gives no continued diffused spreading Shadow but only scattered here and there notwithstanding which the scorching Heat of the Sun will pierce through and Melt or Burn. Nay consider it in its other Particulars and Circumstances and the Protection of this new Constituted Governor and Government notwithstanding he obtained the Kingdom with this kind of Flattery and now Boasts and Ingratiates with this Word is as much inferior to the real assured Protection under a Rightful Governor and Government