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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05952	A supplement and addition unto a printed paper, bearing date July 25. 1692. And thus superscribed, To Our Sovereign Lord, King James the II. Rightful King of Great Brittain, and Ireland, wheresoever he now inhabits in the parts beyond the seas. / Richard Stafford, a scribe instructed in the law of God, desireth a speedy, safe, and peaceable coming into England.	Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703.	1695 (1695)	Wing S5139; ESTC R184563	4,539	4

his Healths sake For it is not a proper time to drink wine in Bowls and anoint themselves with the chief Ointment Amos 6.6 When they ought to be grieved for the affliction ef Joseph And so the King ought to be affected and sympathize also with those that suffer here for his Righteous Cause and in this sense to weep with them that weep Rom 12.15 I repeat and put him in mind of it again That even now He should be in a State of Humiliation and waiting on the Lord of Fasting Sackcloth and Mourning that He may be Worthy for God to do some Great and Good thing for him towards his latter End This Worthiness or rather Meekness doth not altogether so much consist in outward Worship or in great Shew and Quantity of Devotion Nor yet to go further by observation of Part of God's Law but by confirming all the words of Gods Law to do them Deu. 27.26 By resolving and performing it like the man after God's own heart For all his judgments were before me and I did not put away his Statutes from me Psal 18.22 When God did intend to do good unto his Servant David in putting away his Sin He did first reprove him thereof by his Prophet Nathan so that the King should not be angry at what reproof of Sin or Error hath been in himself for in like manner this according to the Divine method may be a forerunner of intended good unto him And so certainly That God might be justified when he speaketh and be clear when he judgeth Psal 50.4 There is some Sin●er Fault some unworthiness or unpreparation some Iniquity or Transgression in the King which hath occasioned this Affliction And as yet hinders good things from him In fine As to his coming or not coming again Tho' the Prayers and Endeavours of all honest People ought to be that judgment should return to righteousness Psal 94.15 and that Right should take place Yet before and after all we ought to acquiesce in the will of God saying with David which same should be the mind both of the King and also of those Inhabitants of this Nation who during his Absence from them do yet still retain their Allegiance Faithfulness and Subjection unto Him If I shall find Favour in the eyes of the Lord he will bring me again But if he thus say I have no delight in thee Behold here am I let him do to me as seemeth good unto him 2 Sam. 15.25 26. Notwithstanding David spake thus yet God did bring him up again but David did use the means for it and not lie still Towards the close of my aforesaid Letter there is brought in a Dilemma which is the most forcible sort of Arguments to persuade the King to endeavour to come again in a Christian peaceable Manner there directed to him It is taken from that Reasoning of Eliezer in 2 Macabees 6. For he began to consider discreetly and as became his Age and the Honour of his Gray Hairs whereunto he was come Therefore he answered consequently observe that In like manner King James might Reason that it becometh not his declin●ng Age He being now more than Sixty Years old to fear Death or Imprisonment For if Thou O King shouldst tarry where thou art which will be to the Desire and Rejoycing of thine Enemies Here one should be sure to cotradict and go thwart and do contrary to what Enemies would have Thou wilt certainly die in that Countrey where thou wast not born which under the Old Testament Dispensation was look'd upon as a Curse Threatning and Pun●shment of God but to the Land where thou desirest to return thou mayest as yet Return And so through thy fear for a little time of transitory Life People may be deceived by Thee As if Thou not being so bold and courageous as Thou oughtest to be in a good and righteous Cause it would procure a Reproach and Suspicion as if it was not altogether so or as if Innocency was not to be found in Thee It is better to brings Things to this issue which however at first sight may seem doubtful or uncertain yet if the King trusteth in the Lord He shall not slide Psal 26.7 He will Turn and Over-rule it into good euen beyond the best Hope and Expectation then always to remain in a Forreign Nation and there to abide for the most sure Event of Mortality But it is seldom that People do according to those Motives which are drawn from the consideration of Sickness or the near approach of Death which should be most Forcible and Persuasive Yet nevertheless such are good and true safe and wholesome Counsels If those Subjects of Thine who contrary to their Oath and Duty did Depose Thee should always Refuse and Rebel and never come to Repentance so as to Call Thee in and Send for Thee over themselves as it is but very seldom that Rebels do ever Repent for Rebellion is as the Sin of Witchcraft Yet nevertheless the Remedy is in Thy Self Thou mayest still in the way aforementioned come over whensoever Thou wilt Thou hast also many Subjects here the Lord add unto this People how many soever they be an Hundred fold who have not consented unto the Counsel and Deed of them And as when the Brethren come to meet him thereupon Paul thanked God and took Courage Acts 28.15 So this last Consideration should encourage Thee also to praise God for it and to come forward on Thy Journey after a Godly sort then Thou shalt do well 3 Joh. 6. It may be Proper and Seasonable to come over during the Absence of the wrong Possessor Let the King again eonsider what is here further said and the Lord give Him Understanding in all Things These foregoing Words should some way or other be sent or conveyed unto Him to whom they ared irected and intended Written April the 2d 1695.